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Webinar provides insight on keeping families together after care proceedings

More than 600 people took part in a webinar, hosted by Lancaster University and the Public Law Working Group on supervision orders, to gain an insight on parental perspectives on care proceedings, supervision orders and care at home orders. 
LEFT: Dr Andrew Chubb (on the left) with the group of UK academics, who this week launched a set of guidelines designed to help universities navigate such challenges. They are seen in the Parliament building. Right: The roundtable launch.

Lancaster researcher launches academic freedom initiative at Parliament

A Lancaster University researcher joined a Parliament roundtable on protecting academic freedom amid new challenges such as emerging digital technologies, the COVID-19 pandemic and growing geopolitical tensions.
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New grant will enable peace project to widen scope

A Lancaster University-based centre which aims to trace religious tensions in Middle Eastern politics has secured a third round of funding to continue its work.

 
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Lancaster University chosen to showcase first ever colour images of early Universe in Morecambe

Lancaster University has been chosen to showcase the first ever colour images from the $10bn James Webb Space Telescope, which is looking back in time to the dawn of the Universe a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. 
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New study urges change of heart in discussions on heart failure

When it comes to Parliamentary debates, heart failure is lower on the agenda than pot-holes in pavements and roads and has a lower public profile compared with other serious health conditions such as cancer and dementia, new research by Lancaster University has shown.

 
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Amazon landscape change study highlights ecological harms and opportunities for action

A major study into landscape changes in the Brazilian Amazon sheds new light on the many environmental threats the biome faces – but also offers encouraging opportunities for ecological sustainability in the world’s most biodiverse tropical forest.

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