Lancaster University

Professor Greg Barton, one of Australia’s leading scholars in Indonesian culture and politics, has been announced as the first Rector Designate of The Deakin University Lancaster University Indonesia campus. Professor Barton’s…

Professor Mike Kosch and Professor Janne Ruostekoski from Lancaster University have both received awards from The Institute of Physics. The IOP is the professional body and learned society for physics, and the leading body for practising…

Given record-setting heat waves around the world in recent years, an international team of researchers, including a Lancaster University statistician, investigated if the rate of global warming has increased significantly, or “surged,” over…

Lancaster University plays a key role in the city’s prestigious Litfest Extra-Long Autumn Weekend (October 18 to 25). Former Lancaster University student Camille Ralphs, now editor of the Times Literary Supplement and president of Oxford…

From the swinging 60s to the forefront of cyber – Lancaster University clocks up 60 glorious years this month. From its birth in 1964 to its place today as a pioneer of global research and gold-standard teaching, Lancaster University has…

A Lancaster University Senior Lecturer has been invited to take part in an international, high-profile event co-organised by UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning and Shanghai Open University next week. Dr Natasa Lackovic, from the…

Lancaster University has been awarded £3.5 million to lead a Network Plus for Analytical Behavioural Science (NABS+) in Security and Defence. Creating new understanding of how individual and population level security risks evolve, NABS+…

Lancaster University has been awarded over £1.8M for two projects as part of the DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment). DUNE is a next-generation international experiment that will perform precision measurements of neutrino physics…

An opportunity to explore witchcraft accusations and trials in conversation with an award-winning author will take place in the city next month. ‘Gender, Witchcraft, and History: A Conversation with A.K. Blakemore’, the second annual…

A Lancaster University PhD student is set to become a Statistical Ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society (RSS). Tessa Wilkie, who is studying for a PhD as part of Lancaster University’s Statistics and Operational Research with…