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€2million research project to develop AI system to improve air travel efficiency

A new European research project involving Lancaster University aims to improve the efficiency and capacity of air travel by using artificial intelligence to redesign flexible airspace sectors.
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Lancaster researchers’ page-turner discovery on Sir Humphry Davy’s unread poetry

Researchers at Lancaster University have discovered hundreds of unpublished poems written by the nineteenth-century British chemist Sir Humphry Davy in his private notebooks. 
The study has investigated the health and social impacts of Big Local with the aim of improving the development of future community initiatives

Lancaster leads NIHR study into improving community initiatives to empower residents

Lancaster University has led on a major research project to help evaluate the impact of a large scale initiative in England – Big Local – that aimed to increase the control communities have over improvements in their neighbourhoods.
The Diocese of London’s next Bishop of Edmonton, the Rev Canon Dr Anderson Jeremiah, with the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE.

Lancaster lecturer will be new Bishop for North London and for Racial Justice

A Lancaster University Senior Lecturer has been announced as the Diocese of London’s next Bishop of Edmonton, covering the London Boroughs of Camden, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
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‘Digging for Britain’ sheds light on hidden Lowther history of crucial chapter in Britain’s past

An investigation to uncover the hidden history of the Norman Conquest of Cumbria is underway and will be featured on BBC2’s Digging for Britain.
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AHRC funding secured for School of Architecture reservoir project

A team of academics from the Schools of Architecture at the University of Liverpool and Lancaster University, and the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University have successfully secured £250,000 of funding for an innovative research project on UK reservoirs.

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