News from 2015
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National Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats launched
Lancaster University is to lead the UK’s new centre for the development and use of economic and social science research to understand, mitigate and counter security threats.
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Lancaster University and Nettitude agree strategic cyber security research partnership
Lancaster University has agreed a strategic research partnership with Nettitude – a leading provider of cyber security services. The partnership will signal a range of collaborations, including joint research projects that will help to develop the knowledge and technologies needed to combat cybercrime.
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George Osborne supports Lancaster’s business-boosting research and development initiative
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has supported an innovative international business-engagement initiative created by Lancaster University.
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National award win for business-boosting environmental research and development programme
A unique environmental research and development programme involving leading universities and almost 300 businesses has won a prestigious national award.
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Banning trans fats could save over 7,000 lives by 2020
A total ban of trans fats in processed foods might prevent or postpone around 7,200 deaths from coronary heart disease over the next five years.
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Lancaster rises in World University Rankings
Lancaster University has risen 39 places to be ranked 121 in the QS World University Rankings.
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NATO tests technology developed at Lancaster University
Wireless communications technology developed by Lancaster researchers is being tested for its suitability for use by NATO.
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Studying how people in Sweden speak about cancer
Lancaster researchers are helping a team in Sweden investigate how people talk about cancer in terms of verbal imagery.
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Linguistics study reveals our growing obsession with education
As children around the country go back to school, a new comparative study of spoken English reveals that we talk about education nearly twice as much as we did twenty years ago.
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Paving the way to ever-safer anaesthesia
Researchers have made a breakthrough which could help prevent patients suffering stress to the body and from feeling pain or becoming aware during anaesthesia.