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1. Aldham Robarts Library to reopen on Sundays from 7 January

   We’re pleased to share that the Aldham Robarts Library will resume its normal opening hours and will once again be open on Sundays from 7 January.

2. In conversation with Professor Phil Vickerman

   As Student Voice Season and the launch of the National Student Survey begin, we caught up with Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Student Experience, Professor Phil Vickerman.

3. Reaching for the stars

   Sport scientists and astrophysicists prepare school children for demands of space travel

4. Andrew McMillan announced winner of Guardian First Book Award 2015

   Creative Writing Lecturer, Andrew McMillan, has become the first poet to win the Guardian First Book Award with Physical, a ‘breathtaking’ collection that explores modern male anxiety in settings from the gym to northern industrial towns.

5. LJMU lecturer and terrorism expert advises Police on anti-terror policies

   LJMU is proving to be a pioneering voice in shaping police policy around terrorism and protecting young people from radicalisation in the region. Dr David Lowe, senior lecturer at the School of Law and leading expert on counter-terrorism has been working closely with Merseyside Police HQ, presenting at their recent Prevent Seminar, while assisting with guidance on law and policy issues more generally.

6. Sporting giants speak at ICCE

   Read more about the guest speakers for the global conference of the International Council for Coaching Excellence being hosted by LJMU.

7. Can grass help solve the cleaner energy crisis?

   Government calls on expertise of LJMU plant biologist for energy solution

8. LJMU forges landmark partnership with Liverpool Medical Institution

   New partnership aims to improve professional practice and strengthen public engagement in medicine and health care.

9. Exhibition of composite images reveals faces of 19th and 21st Century crime

   The difference between the fates of ordinary people and criminals is ‘paper thin’, as demonstrated by a new exhibition of composite facial images of 19th Century and 21st Century criminals.

10. Were sauropods swimmers or walkers?

    An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the Liverpool John Moores University, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur tracks from northern China. The tracks appear to have been made by four-legged sauropod dinosaurs yet only two of their feet have left prints behind.