Research
Our research is globally-significant and has substantial real-world impact across a range of fields.
Professor Louise Heathwaite, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise
"As Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise, I shape our research and enterprise strategy across the University. I also lead for the University on cyber security and I am proud that Lancaster has been at the heart of this domain as an NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research for more than 10 years. Cyber is agile and rapidly changing, so traditional siloed thinking and talent pipelines will not solve future security and protection challenges.
"At Lancaster, our security and protection science power comes from the way we integrate our technical expertise in core cyber security domains, such as privacy, systems and network security and software security, with cyber-critical interdisciplinary capabilities across data science, law, behavioural science, management science, international relations, politics, ethics, sociology, and design. This flagship initiative marks a sea-change in the way our staff across the University will be able to respond to the next generation of challenges, working alongside our partners in the region."
Professor Louise Heathwaite Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise
Collaborative, connected, bold
Home to 1,500+ academics and research staff, and close to 2,000 postgraduate research students, Lancaster University aims to develop a culture and environment that enables world-class research. Our diverse community of researchers transform lives and communities, changing practice and thinking across the globe. Discover what drives our researchers to connect globally, push disciplinary boundaries, take risks, ask the big questions and improve the world around them.
Security Lancaster
As an umbrella of Lancaster’s cyber security activities, the Lancaster Security Institute (SL) targets the broad spectrum of "useful and usable" cyber security with a unique data-centric socio-technical "systems" perspective.
Security Lancaster
Data Science Institute
The Data Science Institute at Lancaster University aims to set the global standard for a truly interdisciplinary approach to contemporary data-driven research challenges. Established in 2015, the Data Science Institute (DSI) has over 300 members and has raised nearly £35 million in research grants.
Data Science InstituteCentre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)
The UK's hub for behavioural and social science research into security threats.
Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)
Cyber Security Research Centre
The Cyber Security Research Centre is a rich, vibrant community of multidisciplinary researchers passionate about driving the development of solutions to the challenges of modern digital life.
Cyber Security