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Knowledge exchange

Knowledge exchange is a two-way exchange between researchers and research users, to share ideas, evidence, research, experiences and skills. It refers to any process through which academic ideas and insights are shared, and external perspectives and experiences are brought into academia for mutual benefit.

Research England's Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) assessments place Lancaster University at the forefront of creating real world impact.

Knowledge exchange

Knowledge exchange case studies

Our research, education and engagement projects aim to improve local employment, drive economic growth, improve public health outcomes, address skills needs and strengthen our communities. Read more Knowledge exchange case studies.

Cross Institutional Collaboration Supporting Innovation in Cumbria

The Cumbria Innovation Platform aim is to boost economic growth in the region through the development of new products and services.

Relaunching the Lancashire Local Nature Partnership

Lancaster University united local stakeholders and facilitated the relaunch of the Lancashire Local Nature Partnership to address local and regional ecological issues.

Connecting the unconnected: Slum toilets and a safe circular water economy

The Lancaster University-led RECIRCULATE project aims at driving eco-innovation in Africa by building capacity for a safe circular water economy with partners in Ghana, Nigeria and other African countries.

Supporting Children and Young People’s Mental Health in Schools and Colleges

To provide training and support to staff in schools and colleges in Lancashire to help them better understand and support the mental health of pupils.

Waitrose Collaborative Training Partnership

Funded by the BBSRC, the Waitrose Collaborative Training Partnership is a unique consortium between Waitrose, its food growers and suppliers and leading academic institutions, led by Lancaster University.

Litcraft: Using Minecraft to engage reluctant readers

To engage with reluctant child readers in a new way by bringing books to life through a series of Minecraft challenges and educational tasks.

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L- R: Charles Hadcock; Gary Rycroft; Professor Andy Schofield; Andy Quin; David Barron.

Lancaster University welcomes four new Honorary Fellows for 2024

From strategy and philanthropy to championing the arts and navigating Covid-19, key faces from Lancaster University have been thanked for their lasting contributions to the University.

Creating new understanding of how individual and population level security risks evolve, NABS+ is led by Lancaster University in collaboration with Bath, Cardiff and Edinburgh universities

£3.5M award for Lancaster to lead network to boost UK resilience and security

Lancaster University has been awarded £3.5 million to lead a Network Plus for Analytical Behavioural Science (NABS+) in Security and Defence.

Professor Janne Ruostekoski and Professor Mike Kosch

IOP Awards 2024 for two pioneering Lancaster physicists

Professor Mike Kosch and Professor Janne Ruostekoski from Lancaster University have both received awards from The Institute of Physics.

Dr Anthony Aggidis and the brain of a fruit fly with Tau expressed in a neuronal circuit used by the fly in olfactory memory. The red shows where Tau is building up in clusters along the neurons

Promising ‘first’ in Alzheimer’s drug development

An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University have made a promising breakthrough in the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s Disease.

Staff retention is a particular challenge in emergency medicine

Call to improve retention of A&E doctors with better working conditions

The working environment must be improved to improve the retention of A&E doctors, according to the first ever study of why emergency doctors stay - rather than why they leave.

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