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.

Taught Masters Degrees

Masters by Research

PhD

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Ben Teague smiling in Lancaster Environment Centre wearing his black, red and grey graduation gowns

Sailing through his degree

Spending a summer sitting on a boat watching how fellow sailors behave on the sea won Ben Teague the Lancaster Environment Centre prize for the best BA dissertation.

A business development workshop delivered by the Health Innovation Campus team as part of its ESIF support project

Lancaster University business support programme leading the way for SME growth

A programme of business support has seen Lancaster University work with around 700 SMEs and help inject almost £1/2bn into the regional economy.

Researchers launch work to preserve ‘climate smart’ tomatoes

Weird and wonderful tomato varieties – which are largely unknown even in their country of origin – could hold the key to preserving tomato crops in an ever more challenging climate.

Orange flames still bursting from a charred log in front of a scene of fire-ravaged devastated forest - not green is left only black charred stumps and grey ash on the ground

Amazon fires explained

Lancaster researchers explain what they are, why they are so damaging, how we can stop them, and what happens if we don't.

The RECIRCULATE cohort smiling together in a horseshoe in the Lancaster Environment Centre

Power Ladies

African women innovators encourage female researchers to adopt an entrepreneurial spirit to help to solve some of the continent’s environmental challenges and succeed in a man’s world.

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Research

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

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

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