Our Technicians

Technicians At Lancaster University

There are 106 technicians working across the three academic faculties at Lancaster University (excluding ISS and Facilities Technicians). This table and pie chart show the departments in which our technicians work (as of February 2026 data).

	Percentage	Label
	15%	Faculty of Health and Medicine (inc Biomedical & Life Sciences and Lancaster Medical School)
	6%	Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (inc Lancaster Institute of Creative Arts)
	8%	Faculty of Science & Technology - Chemistry Department
	13%	Faculty of Science & Technology - School of Engineering
	32%	Faculty of Science & Technology - Lancaster Environment Centre
	17%	Faculty of Science & Technology - Physics Department
	4%	Faculty of Science & Technology - Psychology Department
	5%	Faculty of Science & Technology - Other Departments

Our blogs

Richard in the SEM facilities with two students

A day in the lab with…Dr Richard Wilbraham in the Scanning Electron Microscope and X-Ray Diffraction labs

Today we join Dr Richard Wilbraham, Experimental Officer based in the School of Engineering to check out some samples with the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and to make sure that the X-Ray Diffractometer is working correctly by running some maintenance tests!

Dr James Heath taking readings at Hazelrigg on a sunny day

A day in the lab with... James Heath at the Hazelrigg Weather Station

Dr James Heath, Fieldwork Support Technician based at the Hazelrigg Weather Station, takes us through what a typical day is like for him up at LEC's cornerstone field site.

The Teaching technician team, Dennis Ford, Cate Morgan, Annabel Rice and Kate O’Driscoll.

A day in the lab with…Kate O’Driscoll and Cate Morgan

LEC technicians Kate and Cate take us through what a typical day in LEC Teaching Labs A and J is like during term time. It’s a hectic job, but they’re more than up to the task!

A day in the lab with...Dave Hughes in the Stable Isotope Facility

The Stable Isotope Facility is a suite of labs in LEC 1. They analyse samples for LU staff and students, as well as other universities and private customers. The lab is centred around two isotope ratio mass spectrometers (IRMS) that are used for analysing the non-radioactive isotopes in environmental samples. Dave Hughes has been the lab manager for 15 years, and has a background in geology, industry and as a cartoonist for Geoscientist magazine.