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  1. Ramsey Campbell

    Read the oration for Ramsey Campbell on the award of their Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University presented by Roger Phillips.

  2. Beth Tweddle MBE

    Read the oration for Beth Tweddle on the award of their Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University presented by Dr Zoe Knowles.

  5. Sir Bert Massie CBE DL (1949 – 2017)

    Bert was a famous disability rights campaigner, himself a wheelchair user, dedicating his life to advocating for improvements to the daily life of those with disabilities. He was also an alumnus of the Liverpool Polytechnic, later becoming an Honorary Fellow and serving as a governor, while working closely with the university on its equality and diversity policies.

  6. Professor Tom Reilly 1941 – 2009

    A leader in the development of sport and exercise science study in the 1970s and the first ever Professor of Sports Science in the UK.

  7. Stuart Sutcliffe 1940-1962

    A talented artist who studied at our College of Art in the 1950s and is famously known as the ‘lost’ Beatle having originally formed the band with his friend and fellow student John Lennon.

  8. Norman Thelwell (1923-2004)

    Norman is considered to be the most popular cartoonist in Britian since the Second World War and some regard him as the unofficial artist of the British countryside. As a graduate of the Liverpool College of Art, the forerunner to today’s Liverpool School of Art and Design, it was here that he undertook a course in illustration, one of the many ex-servicemen and women who joined the school after the war.

  9. John Lennon 1940-1980

    As one quarter of the most influential band of all time, The Beatles, John Lennon spent time in the late 1950s at our College of Art and is one of our most celebrated failures.

  10. Volunteering in schools

    LJMU partners with schools and colleges to offer students volunteer opportunities, helping pupils with their schoolwork.