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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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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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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.

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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.

Latest News and Events

Dr Jacob Phelps; Rafflesia arnoldii flower, the largest flower in the world, is only found on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo

Lancaster academic to help highlight hidden rights for nature around the world

A Lancaster University academic is helping to highlight ‘hidden’ legal rights that could prove critical to protecting nature around the world.
Dr Andy Pickard on stage at the Eco-I Awards

Groundbreaking R&D programme ends on high note with innovation awards

Eco innovations developed by North West businesses alongside leading universities to tackle climate change have been honoured at an awards ceremony.
Spix’s Warbling-Antbird;Amazon rainforest

Scientists will tune-in to the sound of the Amazon to discover how climate change and human disturbance are affecting tropical forest animals

Scientists are to deploy a network of microphones in the Amazon rainforest to listen and measure the numbers and species of birds, insects and other wildlife.
Author, journalist and environmental campaigner George Monbiot will give the Lancaster Environment Lecture. A black and white image of George Monbiot, next to the cover of Regenesis.

Litfest and Lancaster University announce the 2023 Lancaster Environment Lecture

A public festival will take place on Lancaster University’s campus on the same day that author, journalist and environmental campaigner George Monbiot gives the Lancaster Environment Lecture. 
Eco-Innovation Awards Logo

Awards event will celebrate eco-innovation across the North West

An awards ceremony in Manchester this week will recognise the success stories of a three year collaborative research project which has worked with businesses across the North West of England, led by the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation team at Lancaster University.

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14th Jun

Data science/ data activism: the technologies of everyday bordering, past, present and future

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 9:00am to 3:30pm
14th Jun

Postgraduate online session of Graduate School for the Environment– Wednesday 14th June, 5pm-6pm BST

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 5:00pm to 6:00pm
20th Jun

Waste Paper Opera - performative lecture

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
22nd Jun

Mark Cocker will be in conversation with the FPCs Writer in Residence Karen Lloyd.

Thursday 22 June 2023, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
23rd Jun

(Hazardous) Labour and the Making of the City

Friday 23 June 2023, 5:30am to 11:30am

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