Lancaster Environment Centre

We are a community of high-achieving students, world-class environmental researchers, government scientists and enterprises working together to address today’s biggest environmental challenges.

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Postgraduate Study

Study with the Graduate School for the Environment, which harnesses the power of three of the world’s foremost research organisations to give students the best possible chance of enjoying productive, impactful and influential careers.

Research Challenges

Our research challenges provide a focus for our fundamental and applied research, ensuring our work helps provide the underlying knowledge needed to find effective solutions.

Research Groups

Our research groups include a wide range of researchers from the natural and social scientists. They work in multi-disciplinary teams within, across and beyond these groups to help find solutions to the big global environmental challenges.

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A composite image featuring Phil Donkersely holding a bee house on the left, and two PhD students in front of the LCD exhibit on the right

Lancaster academics spread the joy of science at Light Up Lancaster’s Explore Week

Two academics from the Faculty of Science and Technology joined the team at Light Up Lancaster to deliver fascinating hands-on sessions to children in The Storey Institute over the course of Explore Week.

Montage of three images: The first (on the left) shows Insect Architecture - an amazing glass beehive sculpture. Top right is Shadowplay - a person with their hand pointing up in front of a white screen creating a shadow on one side of the screen with a ballerina shadow on the left and bottom right is In Micron - a mass of striking and brightly coloured lights in red and purpley-blue.

Installations from Lancaster University will be positively glowing at light festival

Stunning colour imagery of fly wings, an illuminated glass beehive sculpture, the mysterious world of shadows and the amazing world of AI will all be on show at ‘Light up Lancaster’ as part of the University's contribution.

The Data Science Institute - Apply for funding for interdisciplinary research workshops

The Data Science Institute supports interdisciplinary research across a wide range of disciplines and interests. We passionately engaged in a wide range of data-intensive activity, which is addressing critical societal, economic and environmental questions, new mathematical models and methods of digital innovation. We collaborate with a wide range of centres across the University and take a broad definition of ‘data’ and ‘science’ - reflecting an inclusive outlook.

Dr Philip Donkersley inspects campus beehives

Bumper year for Lancaster University campus bees and new research apiary

Despite very wet and changeable weather, this summer has been a good year for Lancaster University’s campus honeybees.

Vast ‘stranded assets’ if world continues investing in polluting industries

Continued investment in carbon-intensive industries will drastically increase the amount of “stranded assets” as the world moves to net-zero emissions, researchers warn.

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