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Top 175 in the world
QS World University Rankings 2027

Top 30 most targeted by leading employers
Graduate Market Report 2026

Top 100 in the world for sustainability
QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026

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Lancaster highly ranked for engagement

The 2026 Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) puts Lancaster "among the best in the UK" for business innovation, partnerships and driving local growth and regeneration.

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30 PhD places for sustainable food systems

Lancaster's new Leverhulme Doctoral Programme on Food for Nature and Society will tackle contemporary food system crises.

Food for Nature and Society doctoral programme
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Atoll islands of Tetiaroa Atoll, French Polynesia

Culling rats and restoring native vegetation – how rewilding tropical atolls could help them keep pace with rising sea-levels

14 October 2026

Protecting seabirds and restoring natural vegetation could give low-lying tropical atoll islands a fighting chance against the threat of sea-level rises, a new study reveals.
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Call for technology providers to take action on AI non-consensual ‘deepfake pornography’

30 September 2026

For the first time, researchers have identified and named the key players facilitating the growing problem of AI-generated explicit sexual imagery online.
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Patient Impact Award for Lancaster University researcher

25 September 2026

A Lancaster Medical School researcher has received an award from North West Cancer Research for work in Cancer ‘Prehab’. 
Pygmy Antwren (Myrmotherula brachyura) in the primary tropical rainforest; forest fire burning within primary forest in the Tapajós National Forest; forest used for selective logging in the Jari region

Amazonian study identifies most effective ways of conserving biodiversity and carbon

17 September 2026

As the 2026 El Niño intensifies across the Amazon, new research highlights the urgent need to better protect the region’s remaining forests from disturbances.
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New Register reveals extent of Britain’s slave-trading past

16 September 2026

Lancaster University researchers have produced a Register of British Slave Traders, documenting thousands of people who financed the trade.
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Mystery of one of the earliest recorded space weather impacts solved

16 September 2026

A 178-year-old mystery surrounding one of the earliest recorded examples of space weather affecting technology has been solved by an international team led by Lancaster University.

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The Lancaster research behind a new BBC series on Britain's slave trade

Dr Nicholas Radburn's work on the Register of British Slave Traders features in a new BBC series with David Olusoga.

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