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  • Wildlife friendly plantations

    Plantations in the Amazon could be more wildlife friendly if they were surrounded by natural forest, according to a prize winning PhD study.

  • Data Science

    Data Science experts to tackle environment and health challenges

    Lancaster’s Data Science Institute has been awarded £5.5 million for two large-scale research programmes that will bring significant new understanding and aid decision-making in the areas of environmental and public health policy.

  • Melting ice

    Three PhD positions in environmental data science

    Lancaster University is advertising three fully-funded PhD positions in the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science, a joint venture between Lancaster University and the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). We have recently been awarded a large grant to develop a Data Science of the Natural Environment. As a PhD student, you will be at the heart of this project, benefitting from participating in a large cross-disciplinary team of scientists and all the excitement surrounding that.

  • A coral collaboration

    A long term collaboration between a Lancaster professor and an Australian conservationist has produced a unique insight into the ecology and management of coral reefs.

  • Student wins prize for volcano research

    Alastair Hodgetts, a Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) student, wins a prize for his research project deciphering an unusual Icelandic tuya volcano which erupted through ice.

  • Arctic basecamp at Davos

    Arctic scientists set up an “immersive” tent encampment at the World Economic Forum, demonstrating to world leaders the need for urgent action to limit arctic change.

  • Prestigious honour for Lancaster statistician

    A Lancaster statistician’s ‘exceptional’ work to foster impactful research collaborations between academia and industry has been recognised by the Royal Statistical Society.

  • Making chemicals safer

    Elevating the literature review to the status of a science has won PhD student Paul Whaley Lancaster University's ‘Impactful Researcher’ Enterprise Award.

  • Student wins national scholarship for engineering talent

    A student from Lancaster has celebrated their success after receiving a Diamond Jubilee Scholarship from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). They are just one of a talented set of engineering students who have won the prestigious award.

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    Revolutionary ‘self-healing’ products

    Lancaster is part of a consortium that will undertake ground-breaking research into products utilising new composite materials that have the ability to regenerate or ‘self-heal’.