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1. Cost of living: non repayable payments for students

   We’re reminding you of all the support available across the university from non-repayable payments, to help with your energy bills, to discounts and freebies across the university.

2. Yoko Ono wishes students ‘Happy John Lennon Day’ - 60 years since Beatles icon enrolled at LJMU

   LJMU recently hosted ‘John Lennon Day’ celebrating both his 77th birthday and the diamond anniversary of the Beatles icon’s enrolment as a Fine Art student at the university.

3. LJMU and LCR collaboration creates 44 apprentices for autism charity

   LJMU has collaborated with LCR to transfer £132,000 of unspent Apprenticeship Levy to Autism Initiatives, funding 44 new apprentice care workers for the charity.

4. Money Advice Team: support, advice and credit scores explained

   Our third-year journalism student, Chloe Doolan, sat down with LJMU Money Advisor, Viven Hart to ask those all important financial questions on her mind, including what a credit score is, and how to improve it.

5. Calling all young artists – North West schools to benefit from new University-backed arts initiative

   Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has become official partner with local arts project dot-art Schools to inspire the region’s next generation of Turners and Emins.

6. Exciting development opportunity for women to undertake action learning with peers from North West universities

   We are pleased to offer this development opportunity for up to 15 women working in academic and professional services roles to take part in cross institutional action learning sets with peers from universities in the North West region. Action learning provides a unique space for women to support each other to overcome work and career related challenges. This opportunity has been taken up previously by 150 women. Participant feedback includes: it was not role specific, so there were a range of individuals with different roles/skills/perspective which enriched my experience and It provided a rare opportunity to discuss issues confidentially outside of ones own workplace which helped me to develop more self-confidence and self-awareness.

7. The Conversation: Prison Food: what we learned from food-themed art workshops for women prisoners

   Erin Power, Research Fellow in Sociology and her collaborators discover how food impacts on identity, motivation and empowerment in women's prisons.

8. 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.

9. Understanding past populations

   Why our ancestors could hold the key to early diagnosis of bone disease

10. Sunshine and celebration during Wednesday’s graduation ceremonies

    Wednesday 15 July graduation ceremonies