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  • Say it with British flowers

    Buy small and buy British, concludes Becky Swinn in her prizewinning project comparing the life cycle impact of British, Kenyan and Dutch cut flowers

  • Supporting peace and prosperity through cultural exchange: the Fulbright Commission

    "We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education." Senator J William Fulbright

  • Wildlife friendly plantations

    Plantations in the Amazon could be more wildlife friendly if they were surrounded by natural forest, according to a prize winning PhD study.

  • Data Science

    Data Science experts to tackle environment and health challenges

    Lancaster’s Data Science Institute has been awarded £5.5 million for two large-scale research programmes that will bring significant new understanding and aid decision-making in the areas of environmental and public health policy.

  • Melting ice

    Three PhD positions in environmental data science

    Lancaster University is advertising three fully-funded PhD positions in the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science, a joint venture between Lancaster University and the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). We have recently been awarded a large grant to develop a Data Science of the Natural Environment. As a PhD student, you will be at the heart of this project, benefitting from participating in a large cross-disciplinary team of scientists and all the excitement surrounding that.

  • A coral collaboration

    A long term collaboration between a Lancaster professor and an Australian conservationist has produced a unique insight into the ecology and management of coral reefs.

  • Computing teaching

    Lancaster to pioneer new Computer Science teaching models

    New models for teaching Computer Science will be pioneered at Lancaster as part of a Government investment into a national ‘Institute of Coding’.

  • Student wins prize for volcano research

    Alastair Hodgetts, a Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) student, wins a prize for his research project deciphering an unusual Icelandic tuya volcano which erupted through ice.

  • Arctic basecamp at Davos

    Arctic scientists set up an “immersive” tent encampment at the World Economic Forum, demonstrating to world leaders the need for urgent action to limit arctic change.

  • Prestigious honour for Lancaster statistician

    A Lancaster statistician’s ‘exceptional’ work to foster impactful research collaborations between academia and industry has been recognised by the Royal Statistical Society.