Employment and skills

LJMU’s Start-up Hub encourages and supports entrepreneurship. Launched in 2004, it has helped more than 1,000 businesses. It has contributed an estimated £20m in income to the Liverpool City Region economy each year.

The Business Clinic provides students with the opportunity to tackle real world issues. In 2021/22, 34,800 hours of business consultancy were delivered for free. The clinic is set to grow with the number of students involved to increase by at least 30%.

In 2021/2022, our clinics provided free business and legal services across Liverpool. The total estimated value of this support was £1.3m.

Alongside industry partners, LJMU has established a new £370,000 Construction Skills and Knowledge Hub. It aims to counter the skills shortage in the UK construction sector. The Hub will provide a space for industry collaboration. It will assist initiatives for employers, professional bodies and learners on non-traditional degree routes.

Over three years, Graduate Futures has created more than 200 graduate-level posts in growth sectors. These sectors include creative and cultural, digital, biomedical, professional services and others. It has also engaged around 2,000 students in the job market.

Liverpool Business School’s executive training programmes have upskilled more than 1,000 small business managers. Our training programmes include The Leadership Growth Skills project and the Enterprise Hub Skills project. These programmes have supported many entrepreneurs in enhancing their skills.

LJMU has doubled its Go Abroad budget to more than £1m to fund students to travel abroad during their studies. This budget dedicates a large portion to helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

LJMU Maritime co-leads the UK’s £9m Centre for Doctoral Training. The centre focuses on professionals in maritime energy generation, distribution, environmental impact and decommissioning.

We have a gold rating for student outcomes and silver overall in the national Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). The TEF outcomes are based on evidence from the university, student submissions and national data.

We work with over 400 schools in the Liverpool City Region. We have trainee teachers placed in 200+ schools and Multi-Academy Trust settings.

We train around 500-600 teachers in primary and secondary schools every year. Many of these graduates are local to the Liverpool City Region (LCR).

We deliver Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for teachers across the LCR. Our focus is on STE(A)M teaching in primary and secondary schools in the city region.

This programme helps build teacher confidence and expertise. It also aims to instil an interest in the sciences and promote career pathways.

This work is award winning and attracting funding from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

LJMU pioneered the Refugee Nursing scheme in collaboration with the charity RefuAid. The scheme helps to keep hundreds of refugee health workers as nurses for the NHS.

LJMU is a key partner in a global initiative to increase physical activity in cities around the world. The university worked with other organisations to develop the Global Active City model. Liverpool was one of the first cities to earn the status.

The movement has reduced inactivity among residents, improving health, fitness and wellbeing.

LJMU partners with the Liverpool charity Knife Savers by training hundreds of students each year in techniques.

LJMU recently celebrated 175 years of pharmacy education in the city. It has invested in innovative new specialist facilities.

We have provided research for the establishment of the successful James’s Place charity. The charity now has clinics in Liverpool, London and Newcastle.

Meanwhile, the university is pioneering a national trial to educate secondary school students to the risks of suicide.

A team of researchers is trialling how to monitor heart problems in the general public by using sensors on supermarket trolleys.

Initial findings from 2,000 shoppers identified 39 people as having previously undiagnosed atrial fibrillation. They were referred on to see a heart doctor for advice.

Our Public Health Institute is a World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention. We support effective violence prevention both in the UK and internationally.

Our work helps partners understand the impact of violence and identify at-risk groups. This leads to selecting the appropriate preventive measures and evaluating its effectiveness.