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Top 200 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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Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship

Lancaster one of eight universities to receive prestigious award for "exceptional researchers at our world-leading institutions".

£7 million for Island-Ocean Research Hub
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New ‘Food for Nature and Society’ doctoral programme to fund 30 PhDs

19 August 2026

Lancaster University is launching a new ‘Food for Nature and Society' doctoral training programme to tackle our contemporary food system crises, while also protecting our planet.
Hannah Jarvis, Lecturer in Biomechanics at Lancaster University, demonstrates Qualisys motion technology in use to visitors from Dnipro University of Technology and Kharkiv National Medical University in Ukraine.

Partnership improves prosthetic limb design for people in Ukraine

17 August 2026

Lancaster University researchers are working with their Ukrainian counterparts and UK amputees to make prosthetic limbs more comfortable for injured military personnel in the war.
A montage image with Professor Radka Newton on the left, looking at the camera and smiling. On the right is a picture of the outside of the front of Lancaster University Management School

National teaching award for Lancaster professor

6 August 2026

A Lancaster University professor has been awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship. 
from left: Alan Kendall and Tom Dennill

Lancaster medical students commended for helping collapsed man

3 August 2026

Lancaster medical students Thomas Dennill and Samuel Job have been commended after helping a member of the public in distress.
Harriet McCartney

Churchill Fellowship to research farmers’ health internationally

30 July 2026

Lancaster PhD student Harriet McCartney has been awarded a coveted Churchill Fellowship to enable her to travel to Australia, New Zealand, and Norway to research innovative, grassroots healthcare solutions for farming communities.
A small carnivorous arc-eye hawkfish (Paracirrhites arcatus). Predators like this species appear to flourish when cryptobenthic fishes are abundant near seabird-rich islands

How invasive rats rewire coral reef food webs creating winners and losers

28 July 2026

Invasive rats on tropical islands are creating winners and losers among the tiny underwater animals near the bottom of the food chain that inhabit surrounding coral reefs.

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