News from 2015

Businesses urged to tap into science and technology young talent

Businesses are being urged to benefit from the technical knowledge and fresh ideas of leading students.
MRC Doctoral Training Partnership in Global Health

Lancaster University and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have been successful in their joint application for a Medical Research Council (MRC) Translational and Quantitative Skills Doctoral Training Programme (DTP) in Global Health.
Invention of forge-proof ID to revolutionise security

Scientists have discovered a way to authenticate or identify any object by generating an unbreakable ID based on atoms.
Lancaster Physicists share in prestigious Breakthrough Prize

The contribution of a group of researchers from Lancaster University has been recognised within this year’s Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics.
Social Sciences at Lancaster ranked in the world's top 100

Social Sciences at Lancaster have been ranked in the world’s top 100 in The Times Higher World Subject Rankings 2015/16.
£1.8m for first ever large-scale online resource of contemporary Welsh language

Lancaster University is part of a multi-institution project, which will capture and inform the past, present and future use of the Welsh language.
Music creates warmth in the urban chill

From the record players and pirate radio stations of the 1950s through to smart phones and headphones of today, teenagers in Dublin have long created ‘acoustic bubbles’ to escape the city scene.
Lancaster researchers release report on Living Wage

Two Lancaster economists are among the authors of a report looking at the effects of the Living Wage on care home workers.
University spin-out company is the next big thing

The world’s second largest advertiser says Relative Insight is the one to watch for brands, marketers and advertisers.
Lancaster winner of the UK ICT Pioneers contest 2015

A Lancaster student has won a national competition for the excellence and commercial potential of his ICT related research.