Our Technicians

Technicians At Lancaster University

There are 106 technicians at Lancaster University, with a wide variety in their roles; it is not uncommon to have technical staff in each department. This pie chart shows the departments in which our technicians work, as of February 2026.

	Percentage	Label
	5.7%	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	15.1%	Faculty of Health and Medicine
	8.5%	Chemistry
	13.2%	Engineering
	32.1%	Lancaster Environment Centre
	17%	Physics
	3.8%	Psychology
	4.7%	Other

Our blogs

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.