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Top 175 in the world
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Top 30 most targeted by leading employers
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Top 100 in the world for sustainability
QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026

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.

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BBC documentary series explores Lancaster University slave-trade research

23 September 2026

A Lancaster University historian has appeared in a new BBC series, based on his work on the Register of British Slave Traders. 

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.
A montage that shows, on the left, Lancaster Quay, in the centre, King James II, and on the right the detail of a ship and map

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.
A train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway, probably made by W T Henley

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.
Tiaracá stream in Jaú National Park (Amazonas state, Brazil) in September 2024 during the extreme drought. Travel along the stream was only possible by paddling, with water levels too low for the outboard motor

As El Niño looms, study finds rapid growth in climate extremes are hitting an unexpected region of the Amazon hardest

9 September 2026

The central north Amazon, with extensive areas of high forest cover, natural savannas and vast and important indigenous territories, was not previously considered as being the most affected by climate change. 
The Mindgard team

Major funding boost for Lancaster AI spin-out company

3 September 2026

A world-class technology spinout company from Lancaster University has raised US$30m (£22.2m) in a Series A funding round as demand intensifies around AI cyber security.

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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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Dr Nicholas Radburn. - BBC/Hillgate Films and Voltage TV/Stephen Robinson