Lancaster University

The Military History Consortium (MHC), which connects institutions, academics, and students engaged in the study of warfare and/or military organisations in the past, is to hold its first conference at Lancaster University next month.…

Lancaster University and the University of Bath have been awarded almost half a million pounds from The Leverhulme Trust to perform research into the coat patterns of Dalmatian dogs. This is the first time that fundamental research has…

Experts from around the world are gathering in Sardinia for a workshop aimed at creating an international network for the monitoring and surveillance of diseases caused by ticks, mosquitoes, and other insects. The project, funded by…

Researchers from Lancaster University and Radboud University Nijmegen have managed to generate propagating spin waves at the nanoscale and discovered a novel pathway to modulate and amplify them. Their discovery, published in Nature,…

A Lancaster University scientist who is considered a world leader in environmental magnetism has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society – one of the world’s most prestigious learned societies. Barbara Maher, Professor Emerita at…

Thousands of solar panels and an array of heat pumps – which between them will virtually eliminate the use of gas to heat Lancaster’s Bailrigg campus – have both taken a major step closer to reality today. Already one of the highest…

A city centre community garden has grown and blossomed into a well-used public park thanks to a little help from Lancaster University. The De Vitre Community Garden, set on a two-acre piece of land in Ashton Road, has been developed into…

More than 60% of senior business leaders believe British employers have a ‘substantial responsibility’ to help their employees with the cost of living but only 30% plan to award pay rises above inflation this year, a new survey reveals.…

Two Lancaster University academics are to receive prestigious accolades from the Royal Statistical Society in recognition of their leading contributions to the discipline of statistics. Peter Diggle, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in…

Stigma is a glue that holds poverty, inequality and economic insecurity in place enabling and exacerbating inequalities of wealth, health and opportunity, says a new report out today. Poverty Stigma is a ‘wicked social problem’, highly…