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1. Wanted: students to live with monkeys

   LJMU students are given a once in a lifetime opportunity to venture out into the wilds of Tanzania to study primates in their natural habitat. Find out about their experiences.

2. Knife crime and gangs: how a decade of bad policy left deprived young people without real choice

   England’s dramatic rise in gang-related knife crime has been called a “disease” by the UK home secretary, Sajid Javid, and amid the daily drama of Brexit the prime minister, Theresa May, has called a summit of 100 experts to Downing Street to discuss the issue.

3. Rei Misa Graduate Case Study | Student Futures

   Rei Misa graduated in 2024 with an MSC in Maritime Operations Management and now works as a Claims Executive for an organisation that deal with claims handling.

4. Reach new heights: 6 signs you are ready for postgraduate study

   Are you ready for postgraduate study? Read more to find out...

5. Jaykumar Vora - Graduate Scheme Case Study

   Jaykumar Vora completed an MSc in Electrical Power and Control Engineering and has secured a place on the graduate scheme at Siemens Energy as a Graduate Electrical and Electronics Engineer.

6. Gang culture appeals to disenfranchised young people – but ‘social mixing’ offers a way out

   Over the past ten years, violence among young people involved in gangs has claimed hundreds of lives and dominated national debate in the UK.

7. Lucy Shaw Internship Case Study | Student Futures

   Geography graduate Lucy Shaw tells us about a paid summer internship she undertook at Mott MacDonald in their environmental and social consultancy team whilst studying at LJMU.

8. The welcome rise and worrying fall in covert investigation

   Covert techniques and specialist intelligence never appear to be far from the headlines - so why are they on the decline?

9. Studying nursing as a mature student

   Final-year mature Adult Nursing student Kerri Jones explains her career journey and why it’s never too late to study at university.

10. Doing a PhD in sport sciences

    To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, we asked some of the students who completed their PhDs with the Institute over the last 20 years to share their stories.