Engagement in action

Read our case studies for just a handful of examples of how our collaborative research, education and engagement projects are making a difference.

Cross Institutional Collaboration Supporting Innovation in Cumbria

Cross Institutional Collaboration Supporting Innovation in Cumbria

The Cumbria Innovation Platform aim is to boost economic growth in the region through the development of new products and services.
Relaunching the Lancashire Local Nature Partnership

Relaunching the Lancashire Local Nature Partnership

Lancaster University united local stakeholders and facilitated the relaunch of the Lancashire Local Nature Partnership to address local and regional ecological issues.
Connecting the unconnected: Slum toilets and a safe circular water economy

Connecting the unconnected: Slum toilets and a safe circular water economy

The Lancaster University-led RECIRCULATE project aims at driving eco-innovation in Africa by building capacity for a safe circular water economy with partners in Ghana, Nigeria and other African countries.
Supporting Children and Young People’s Mental Health in Schools and Colleges

Supporting Children and Young People’s Mental Health in Schools and Colleges

To provide training and support to staff in schools and colleges in Lancashire to help them better understand and support the mental health of pupils.
Waitrose Collaborative Training Partnership

Waitrose Collaborative Training Partnership

Funded by the BBSRC, the Waitrose Collaborative Training Partnership is a unique consortium between Waitrose, its food growers and suppliers and leading academic institutions, led by Lancaster University.
Litcraft: Using Minecraft to engage reluctant readers

Litcraft: Using Minecraft to engage reluctant readers

To engage with reluctant child readers in a new way by bringing books to life through a series of Minecraft challenges and educational tasks.

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Some attendees sat in rows at tables in a lecture theatre, listening to a presentation at the EiR conference in Lancaster this week

LUMS' Entrepreneurs in Residence network going global to enhance student education around the world

Lancaster University Management School’s Entrepreneurs in Residence network is going global in a bid to improve student education and stimulate more cutting-edge research across the world.
Lancaster Vice-Chancellor Professor Andy Schofield, and UHMBT Chair Professor Mike Thomas signing the Memorandum of Understanding

New partnership agreement between Lancaster University and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

Lancaster University and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust have signed a commitment to work more closely together to help change the lives of local residents.
palliative care

Lancaster researchers propose new approach to assisted dying

Three Lancaster University professors have argued that it is time to move beyond a medicalised approach to assisted dying. 
Professor Isobel Hook at the NASA Kennedy Space Centre on the day of the launch at Cape Canaveral in Florida

“Wonderful experience” for Lancaster Professor at launch of Euclid spacecraft

Lancaster Professor Isobel Hook, who witnessed the successful launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid Satellite Mission, has described it as a “wonderful experience”.
An image of a mother bending down and smiling lovingly at a young boy in a wheelchair

Energy bills support ‘took too long to get to those most in need’

Written evidence from Lancaster researchers is included in a new report published by the House of Commons today, which is critical of the Government’s energy bills support scheme.

 

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