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Research Departments & Groups

Research Departments

The Cyber Security Research Centre (CSRC), home to our active cyber security researchers, is renowned for interdisciplinary cyber security that places individuals at the heart of security decision-making and draws expertise from across the institution in areas including Computer Science, Psychology, Politics Philosophy & Religion, Physics, Sociology, Mathematics & Statistics and Management Science.

  • Computing & Communications

    We are a world-leading department, highly-ranked for research and teaching. Our academic staff have worked in some of the most prestigious institutions in the world.

  • Management School

    An internationally-leading Management School, recognised as one of the few business schools in the world to hold quadruple accreditation.

  • Mathematics & Statistics

    The department has grown rapidly to become one of the UK's major centres in mathematics and statistics and has earned a well-deserved reputation for top-quality teaching excellence and world-class research.

  • Physics

    Lancaster University's Physics Department is one of the top in the UK for research. REF2021 rated 100% of our research environments as either being world-leading or internationally excellent.

  • Politics, Philosophy and Religion

    The Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion (PPR) was formed in 2010, merging the old departments of Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, and Religious Studies.

  • Psychology

    According to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), 87% of our Psychology Department's publications were rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.

  • Sociology

    The Department plays a key role in interdisciplinary research collaborations at Lancaster with particular research concentrations in science and technology studies.

Multi-Disciplinary Research Areas

The unique blend of inter-disciplinary, systems-centred and resilience-focused research on cyber security has led to a range of innovative research programmes – establishing Lancaster as a leading international centre in cyber security research.

  • Behavioural Science

    The research group comprises members who are internationally recognised for their work in security, social and moral decision-making.

  • Communication Systems

    Lancaster's Communication Systems Research Group focuses on the design, analysis and optimisation of future communication systems

  • Data Science

    Data Science focuses on new methods, algorithms and applications of transforming data in real-time and autonomously to meet real-world needs.

  • Distributed Systems

    Distributed systems are becoming increasingly complex, encompassing areas of technological innovation including cloud computing, mobile computing and IOT

  • Management Science

    Management Science has five main overall research areas, with Operational Risk focusing on analysing risk and its management.

  • Networking

    The Networking group have a diverse range of interests, from cutting-edge computer networking technologies to understanding new deployment context.

  • Pervasive Systems

    The Pervasive Computing group at Lancaster conducts world-class research into the design, development, deployment and evaluation of mobile and pervasive computing systems.

  • Politics, Philosophy & Religion

    Our interdisciplinary research brings together scholars who work across the disciplines with an aim to improve policies for promoting peace and security.

  • Quantum Security

    Lancaster University's Physics Department is one of the top in the UK for research, including Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Cryptography.

  • Software Engineering

    The group has significant strengths in human factors, software engineering, sociotechnical & decentralized systems, product lines, and software reliability via techniques such as automated defect prediction.

  • Statistics

    Statistics group focus on developing new algorithms that have excellent computational properties motivated by a number of applications including Security.

  • Systems Security

    The group integrates research in many areas to address contemporary issues relating to the security of individuals, organisations and society.