Lancaster Environment Centre

We are a community of high-achieving students, world-class environmental researchers, government scientists and enterprises working together to address today’s biggest environmental challenges.

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Undergraduate Degrees

Biology

Ecology and Conservation

Environmental and Earth Sciences

Geography

Zoology

Postgraduate Study

Study with the Graduate School for the Environment, which harnesses the power of three of the world’s foremost research organisations to give students the best possible chance of enjoying productive, impactful and influential careers.

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Masters by Research

PhD

Professional Training

Latest News

Unite solutions to climate and biodiversity crises to save life on earth, says study

Leading experts on the ecological impacts of climate change are calling for urgent action to align the climate and biodiversity agendas to ensure that low cost, low risk, low maintenance opportunities to jointly and efficiently address these two environmental issues are prioritised and implemented.

Three images: coloured map of Earth showing global atmosphere ozone distribution, mists over tropical forests, and equipment for taking urban air measurements

Shaping a discipline

Lancaster University researchers have been recognised as key influencers in the development of atmospheric chemistry – the study of the chemical processes that affect air quality and composition.

Food security for millions undermined by lack of policy support for small-scale fisheries and aquaculture

Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture are overlooked by policymakers and decisionmakers despite providing livelihoods for more than 100 million people and sustenance for a billion people worldwide, according to researchers including Lancaster University’s Professor Christina Hicks.

Two female students studying a model of a chemical compound

Lancaster Biosciences excels in latest league table

Lancaster University has been ranked 4th in the UK and best in the North-West for the study of biosciences in The Guardian University Guide 2022.

Professor Barbara Maher looking at young growing trees in an urban space

Challenging the status quo

Lancaster University’s first female science professor gains international recognition for ‘proven leadership’ in her field, crowning a career challenging the status quo as an often-lone woman in a male-dominated world.

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Research Challenges

Our research challenges provide a focus for our fundamental and applied research, ensuring our work helps provide the underlying knowledge needed to find effective solutions.

Agri-Food

Eco-Innovation

Sustainable Catchments

Tropical Futures

Research Groups

Our research groups include a wide range of researchers from the natural and social scientists. They work in multi-disciplinary teams within, across and beyond these groups to help find solutions to the big global environmental challenges.

Atmosphere, Climate & Pollution

Critical Geographies

Earth Science

Ecology & Conservation

Environmental & Biogeochemistry

Geospatial Data Science

Plant & Crop Science

Political Ecology

Soil, Plant & Land Systems

Water Science

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