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Lancaster leads multi-million pound initiative to transform mental health support

Lancaster has been awarded £11 million for mental health research following a major investment by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.

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Lancaster awarded nation’s highest education honour

Lancaster University has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education for its pioneering work in digital literacy.

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education
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CFC replacements behind hundreds of thousands of tonnes of global ‘forever chemical’ pollution

Chemicals brought in to help protect our ozone layer have had the unintended consequences of spreading vast quantities of a potentially toxic ‘forever chemical’ around the globe, a new study shows.
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Appeal for volunteers for citizen science project in response to disaster

Scientists from Lancaster University are appealing for volunteers for a citizen science project to help the delivery of humanitarian aid in in response to flooding in Mozambique. 
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Removing livestock from grasslands could compromise long-term soil carbon storage, study finds

Removing sheep and other livestock entirely from upland grasslands – a strategy often promoted as a way to boost carbon storage and tackle climate change – may actually reduce the most stable forms of soil carbon, according to new research.
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Britain’s Changing Roadscapes – a driving force to be reckoned with

From the arrival of Costa drive-thrus and SMART motorways to automated toll roads, incessant congestion and EV chargers, a personal account of Britain’s changing roadscapes, authored by a Lancaster University professor, will be published this week.
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Voices of the Victorians analysed in new research about northern accent development

he Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid population change in the late 1800s, says new research by Lancaster University, which used the voices of Victorian speakers to inform the study.
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Lancaster subject areas rank in THE world top 100

Three Lancaster University subject areas have been ranked in the global top 100 by the Times Higher Education, in their World University Rankings by Subject 2026. 

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