We encourage collaboration and the exchange of knowledge between researchers and businesses, local authorities, professional bodies, charities and a wide range of other stakeholders to ensure that businesses and employers are supported to grow, become more innovative and productive, and can access the skills that they need.
Lancaster Environment Centre
We support businesses and communities to develop low carbon ideas, promote local and national economic growth and innovation, and supply highly skilled and employable graduates.
The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation: Leading Low Carbon Innovation
The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation is building an international platform for an alliance supporting university-business collaboration. We deliver high quality, business-led research to create eco-innovative technologies, products and services. We educate and train skilled people able to develop, deliver and advance eco-innovation throughout their careers.
Centre for Global Eco-InnovationSolutions to Global Challenges
We are working with our international research and business networks to drive Sustainable Development. Eco-innovation delivers the goals of sustainable and equitable societies and economies and is a route to delivering the “green economy”, which the World Bank estimates had a global value of $3.4 trillion in 2015, predicted to grow to more than $8 trillion by 2025.
RECIRCULATE supports new partnership-based approaches to enable African researchers to grow transformational impact through working with, in and for their communities and developing robust, durable and equitable partnerships with UK researchers. It combines excellence in scientific research (environmental science, crop science, engineering, microbiology), social science and management research (entrepreneurial learning and knowledge exchange) with knowledge exchange and capacity building.
Supporting Challenge Driven Research
A challenge-driven approach provides a focus for all our research at the Lancaster Environment Centre, ensuring our work helps provide the underlying knowledge needed to find effective solutions for our external partners and creates significant outcomes and impacts.
A wide range of facilities and equipment enable integrated studies of terrestrial, aquatic and atmospheric systems, using chemical, biochemical, physical and biological analysis.
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Supporting Skills and Employability
We support the development of strong links between universities and employers to boost the employability of graduates and recognition of the value of graduate skills. We provide businesses with an extensive range of ways to access the technical expertise of our students through internships, partnerships, collaborative award studentships, project work, and careers fairs. Flexible work based training options with progression to Master's level qualifications are currently open for recruitment in Flood and Coastal Risk Management.
Net Zero Collaboration of the Year
Lancaster University’s Centre for Global Eco-Innovation has won the Net Zero Collaboration of the Year category at the prestigious national PraxisAuril KE Awards 2023.
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Contact our Award-Winning Engagement Team
People are key to successful relationship building and we have an experienced multiple award winning team of knowledge exchange staff able to drive your ideas forward. We use our expertise and applied research knowledge to offer a range of services from business development and intelligence to bid writing support. Please contact us to find out how we can support your ambitions.
Dr Ruth Alcock
Head of Enterprise & Business Partnerships
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Carolyn Hayes
KE Partnerships Development Officer
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Dr Chris Holroyd
Business Partnerships Manager
Dr Paul McKenna
Business Partnerships ManagerEnergy Lancaster
