Research Showcase
Our research brings together experts from different backgrounds to tackle global problems that impact lives.
Multidisciplinary cross faculty Research Institutes
Data Science Institute
Our world-class Data Science research sets the global standard, with a truly interdisciplinary approach to contemporary data-driven research challenges.
Institute for Social Futures
We bring high-quality social science theory and research into productive relations with science, technology, health and management, to improve thinking, visioning, analysis and data relating to futures.
Material Science Institute
The Materials Science Institute brings together academics from across Lancaster University to further our world leading materials science research.
Multidisciplinary research centres
Centre for Ageing Research
The Centre for Ageing Research conducts high quality interdisciplinary research and promotes research-led teaching around ageing, older people and age-related disease.
CeMoRe
Mobilities encompasses analysis of the global, national and local movements of people, objects, capital, information and material things combining to engender the economic and social patterning of life.
Energy Lancaster
Energy Lancaster brings together Lancaster University's cutting-edge expertise in a wide range of energy related areas covering the demand and supply of energy.
Security Lancaster
Security Lancaster delivers research and education that innovates and creatively challenges the way that individuals, organisations and societies secure and protect themselves.
Research in academic departments
Arts and Social Sciences
FASS has several specialist research centres conducting nationally and internationally-acclaimed research.
Health and Medicine
FHM combines a unique blend of internationally acclaimed expertise, approaching problems from novel directions, thereby adding value to our research, teaching and impact.
Management School
LUMS is the most research-intensive business school in the UK, according to the Research Excellence Framework 2014.
Science and Technology
FST works with the University to further scientific knowledge and translate it into applicable solutions for the economy and environment.
