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1. LJMU Vice-Chancellor appointed to city region's new Business and Enterprise Board

   Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark Power is to represent higher education on the new board.

2. New partnership to help Liverpool continue course to becoming leading entrepreneurial city

   £500,000 for five years of start-up business support at LJMU

3. World-class status for Sport and Exercise Sciences in new academic ranking

   Liverpool John Moores University’s School of Sport and Exercise Sciences has been named the 6th best department in the world according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for the Sports Sciences subject area, highlighting the School’s global research influence. The results also show the School ranked as the 2nd best department in the UK and the 3rd best in Europe.

4. Research exploring music and social transformation in sacred spaces reaches new crescendo

   Since 2020 Professor Simone Krüger Bridge has partnered with Liverpool Cathedral to study the impact of its music outreach initiatives.

5. The universe is smoother than the standard model of cosmology suggests – so is the theory broken?

   Ian G McCarthy, Reader in Astrophysics at Liverpool John Moores University writes for The Conversation's Cosmology in Crisis series.

6. New human evolution gallery at the World Museum Liverpool opened with a bang!

   Discover the intertwined history of our species. A new free gallery officially opened at the World Museum Liverpool on 6th September 2019. The opening was marked by a family event: Human Evolution Festival, but the gallery is now open to the public and an activity trail will be available soon. Where do we come from? What makes us human? These fundamental mysteries have shaped the study of human origins for centuries. Trace our species’ evolution from the first upright primate through to modern humans.

7. LJMU is selected for new national strategy through its commitment to care leavers

   LJMU is part of a landmark support scheme to help raise aspirations and outcomes for care leavers.

8. New way to request visitor parking and out of hours or security access

   Campus Support (Security) now has a number of staff request forms available via the LJMU HelpMe portal, to help with the management of requests.

9. New analysis reveals graduates in every region earn at least a third more

   The analysis from Universities UK highlights how university study boosts career earnings.

10. Teaching and Learning Conference and Awards 2017

    Read more about the sixteenth LJMU Teaching and Learning Conference, which took place at the Redmonds Building on 14 and 15 June 2017.