Engagement and Partnerships

We maintain rich and productive partnerships with industry - while offering a raft of support opportunities for collaborators.

Sarah Kemp Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement

Sarah Kemp Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement

"As Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement, my role is to ensure the University is focused on high-value, high-impact projects that harness cross-institutional strengths and capitalise on established partnerships such as those with GCHQ, the National Cyber Force and security-related industries.

"Specifically we wish to translate relevant and beneficial learning and knowledge created through our programmes, initiatives and partnerships to maximise impact for our communities of businesses and people, whilst at the same time enhancing the University’s national and international profile and reputation."

Sarah Kemp Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement

Who we work with

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Join Our New Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Group at the Data Science Institute! 

Are you passionate about promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in data science and AI? Do you want to help create a more inclusive and equitable environment at the Data Science Institute (DSI)? We’re launching a new ED&I group to address these vital issues—and we’d love for you to be a part of it. 
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Cyber Security Executive MBA shortlisted for innovation strategy award

Lancaster University Management School has been shortlisted for the Best Innovation Strategy 2025 award at the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2025 for its Cyber Security Executive MBA programme (CEMBA) delivered in partnership with Templar Executives.
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Dead Man’s PLC: A new cyber threat in the industrial world?

Researchers at Orange Cyberdefence collaborate with Lancaster’s School of Computing and Communications to outline the possibility of a new way cyber criminals could target systems crucial to the functioning of industry-based systems.
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Data Science and Cyber Security Master's Poster Exhibition

Over 100 students, academics, and project hosts gathered in Infolab for the annual Master's Poster Conference. Once again, there was an extremely impressive range of posters on display, which demonstrated the projects that the students had performed across many areas of data science and cyber security.
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Securing Tomorrow: International event addresses the challenges of evolving threats

Global experts are convening in Lancaster at the very first international conference on natural language processing and artificial intelligence for cyber security (NLPAICS 2024).
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Prestigious cyber award for Lancaster University spinout Mindgard

Lancaster University spinout company Mindgard has won the award for the ‘UK’s Most Innovative Cyber SME 2024’ at Infosecurity Europe 2024.

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