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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.

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The atrium within Lancaster University

Lancaster FST subjects ranked among the best in the world

A host of Lancaster University subjects have been placed in the global top 100, according to the latest QS World Rankings.
Surveying the site for Roman archaeology

Lancaster University researchers help reveal evidence of potential Roman temple and religious enclosure

Lancaster University staff and student researchers have discovered evidence suggesting a Romano-Celtic temple under public land near Lancaster Castle - which would be only the second of its type found in northern Britain.
Andrew White

Building infrastructure from the bottom up to meet community needs

A prizewinning energy justice researcher had his assumptions turned upside down and his career transformed when he joined the first cohort of students on Lancaster’s Political Ecology master's.
L-R: Oyster gardens supported a diverse range of invertebrates, like this sea urchin; An oyster garden cage containing a mix of Sydney Rock Oysters, Leaf Oysters, and Hairy Mussels; Marble Fortescue, one of the most common fish found in association with the oyster gardens.

Citizen scientists tend oyster gardens

A Lancaster University scientist has helped assess Australia’s first ‘oyster gardening’ project.
Dr Paul Whaley

Experts demand fire safety policy change over health impact of widely used flame retardants

Leading environmental health experts have called for a comprehensive review of the UK's fire safety regulations, with a focus on the environmental and health risks of current chemical flame retardants.

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28th Mar

Science Week 2023 - Day 2

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 1:30pm to 4:30pm
29th Mar

Science Week - Day 3

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 12:00pm to 2:30pm
30th Mar

Science Week - Day 4

Thursday 30 March 2023, 3:00pm to 4:30pm
18th Apr

Environment, Literature and the Arts Season 2023

Tuesday 18 April 2023, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
27th Apr

Forum of African Researchers in the Diaspora (FARID)

Thursday 27 April 2023, 9:00am to 4:00pm

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