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This year’s International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospodinov will present the third Lancaster International Fiction Lecture. The Lecture, a joint online venture between Lancaster’s Litfest and the University’s Department of Languages…

A new international film festival, co-founded by a Lancaster University PhD film lecturer, is taking place in Morecambe this month. Running until Sunday 29 October, the Bay International Film Festival is screening more than 50 films as…

Light Up Lancaster, the free family festival of light and art, will showcase an exciting array of Lancaster University’s inspiring and illuminating research projects and activities. Running from November 2 to 4, this year’s Light Up…

A major new project will ensure world-leading cyber security research generated in the North West is exploited to deliver a ‘step change’ for the region’s business and economic growth. Led by Lancaster University, the new £1.2million…

Many local landmarks can tell global stories. And that's certainly true in Lancaster, where University researchers are engaging audiences in exploring the city's historical connections with the wider world on foot. From evidence of…

TV, film and stage actor and author Paterson Joseph is all set to come to Lancaster in November as part of the University’s new Public Lecture series. Paterson, best known for his roles in TV’s Peep Show and Noughts & Crosses, will…

Lancaster University is joining forces with an innovative technology company in a new project to explore whether artificial intelligence (AI) can help prevent suicides on UK railways. Dr Mahsa Honary from Lancaster University Management…

A research grant awarded to a Lancaster University professor will establish a new Centre of Excellence to improve safeguarding outcomes and aspects of the Family Justice system. Professor Lauren Devine, new to Lancaster University, has…

Researchers at Lancaster University have worked with the Duchy of Lancaster and projection artists Illuminos to create a monumental sound and light display at Lancaster Castle for Light Up Lancaster 2023. The display will showcase the…

An epic 13.5-hour, 34-kilometre walk, led by a Lancaster University professor, which followed in the footsteps of one of the Lake District’s great poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was captured on film and will be premiered at the Kendal…