Each year, our final year Art and Design final year students host a two-week celebration of their work in the John Lennon Art and Design Building. This year's show, themed THIS IS WHAT WE DO is shaping up to be an exciting showcase of some of the best, cutting-edge art and design practise.
Join us for an informative and inspiring online session to explore the MSc Psychology in Education (conversion) degree at Liverpool John Moores University. This course is ideal for those aiming to make a difference in education, mental health, policy, or community-based work.
We are delighted to welcome Prof Andreja Gomboc from Slovenia to present the 2025 John Porter Memorial Lecture on "Stars - gone in a day!". Learn about the many explosive ways that stars can "die" and what we can learn from them. The lecture is free and open to all. Tickets are not required, just turn up and enjoy the lecture.
Friendships are a primate speciality, and have evolved to buffer us against the stresses of living in large social groups. They have a bigger effect on our psychological health and wellbeing, as well as our physical health and wellbeing, than anything else. Friendships are, however, extremely expensive to create and to maintain, both in terms of their time cost and in terms of their underpinning neurobiology. In this lecture, Ill explore the behavioural, cognitive and neurobiological bases of friendships, and show how we use these as a basis for forming mega-communities.
Demelza Kooij's film The Breeder considers the darker implications of our cultural fetish with cute.
One of the most widely grown, traded and eaten of all the crops, bananas were once a prized exotic novelty, but are now a staple in many country’s supermarkets – Prof Chris Hunt and Dr Rathnasiri Premathilake investigate
MRes English student, Lindsay Wilkinson shares her insights into the orangutan volunteer project in Indonesian Borneo.
Andy Shackleton has partnered with the School of Nursing to pilot a smarter way of organising large student cohorts in Canvas, using a combination of Groups and Sections to deliver targeted activities and content to different teams. Early feedback from the Nursing Simulated Practice team has been very positive, with the approach credited with helping a current placement run significantly more smoothly. The pilot is part of a wider project to find scalable Canvas solutions for larger cohorts.
Students from LJMU share their Clearing success stories and highlight how it worked well for them.
Chimpanzees now face the daunting task of surviving in a habitat increasingly infested and assaulted by humans. And as their populations decline, so does their behavioural variation. In short, humans are causing chimpanzee cultural collapse.