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1. Honorary Fellow: Darren Henley

   Darren Henley OBE received an Honorary Fellowship from LJMU on Friday 28 November in recognition of his outstanding contribution to arts and culture.

2. Ninth National Teaching Fellowship received

   Continued success in ‘University Oscars’

3. LJMU Teaching and Learning Academy formally launched

   A one university approach for teaching and learning

4. Outstanding graduates celebrate success

   At the final winter graduation ceremony, students from the Faculties of Arts, Professional and Social Studies, Science, and Engineering and Technology celebrated receiving their awards in the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.

5. World record attempt for fastest human powered vehicle

   Sports scientists from Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University have helped to select riders to take on the World Human Power Speed Challenge, due to take place in September 2015.

6. Lifestyles of the dinosaurs

   Scientists downsize the Jurassic giant

7. Driving innovation, research and development for the Merseyside maritime sector

   Ground-breaking Maritime partnership for skills and innovation

8. Astronomers catch Tatooine multiple star system as it forms

   For the first time astronomers, including Dr Richard Parker, of the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU, have caught a multiple-star system as it is created, and their observations are providing new insight into how such systems, and possibly the solar system, are formed. The amazing images taken from a series of telescopes on Earth show clouds of gas which are in the process of developing into stars.

9. Why our brains need touch

   An LJMU academic is leading a Neuroscience Group (SANG) that is revolutionising how we view the basic human sense of touch.

10. Bringing the Universe down to Earth

    Astrophysicists engage public through RHS gold garden and £100k STEMM outreach project