In 1975, LJMU became the first to recognise sport as a science and is now again leading the field with a £25.5million facility, opened by Liverpool FC captain and LJMU Honorary Fellow Steven Gerrard. The facility is named after the late Tom Reilly, known as the ‘Father of the Science of Football’ and the UK’s first Professor of Sports Science. This state-of-the-art building, which houses the School of Sports and Exercise Sciences and the School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, offers some of the best facilities in the world, including appetite, psychology testing and neuroscience labs, an indoor 70-metre running track, physiology suites, a DEXA scanner for measuring body fat, muscles and bone density, a driving simulator and a chronobiology lab.


Work is still ongoing on the latest edition to the LJMU ‘family’, the £37million Redmonds’ Building, which will be completed in 2012. The building is named after LJMU Honorary Fellows Phil and Alexis Redmond, founders of Mersey Television which produced programmes such as Brookside and Hollyoaks. Appropriately the building will provide industry-quality film and broadcasting studios as well as general teaching space and professional training facilities. Research students will have their own dedicated study area and there will be a bespoke facility for leadership training.


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