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1. Welcome to our new students joining us from January 2025

   Take a look through our Before You Arrive webpages and get ready for your studies.

2. New student ID card delivery and collections for January 2025 starters

   Find out how you’ll get your student ID card.

3. English all at sea over fish identification - try our 'Name That Tuna' quiz

   Lack of consumer awareness makes conservation of fish stocks more challenging - research

4. 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.

5. Call for staff support for LJMU's Armed Forces Steering Group

   The steering group would like more colleagues from across the university to get involved with their work.

6. What does 'Trans Visibility' mean and why is it so important?

   We caught up with Oli Fitzsimmons, Trans and Non-Binary Part-Time Officer at John Moores Students Union, following Trans Day of Visibility, to hear from him on what an inclusive LJMU community looks like.

7. Malik Al Nasir announced as final Roscoe speaker of Bicentenary year

   The lecture 'The truth that lies behind Roscoe' will take place at St George’s Hall, Friday 24 November, 5pm to 6.30pm

8. Gold award for support of the Armed Forces community at LJMU

   LJMU has received a gold award from the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) acknowledging how it provides support to the Armed Forces community.

9. LJMU presented with gold award for support of the Armed Forces community

   The university was officially presented with the award at a ceremony at the city’s Liver Building.

10. Galaxies are cosmic cauldrons heated by star formation

    Astronomers show that stars form rapidly and drive interstellar gas bubbles throughout galaxies.