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Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)

Professor Judith Mottram, Director of LICA, welcomes you to Lancaster University

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Undergraduate Study

Our specialist degree courses are characterised by close links between practice and theory. We offer opportunities for an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach, which blurs traditional boundaries.

Degrees in Fine Art

Degrees in Design

Degrees in Theatre

Degrees in Film

Degrees in Architecture

Postgraduate Study

LICA offers discipline-oriented or interdisciplinary masters that blur traditional boundaries and explore links between theory and practice. We also provide opportunities to undertake doctoral study supported by world-leading researchers and active arts practitioners.

Masters Study

PhD Study

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Research

Research

LICA is committed to leading interdisciplinary and international research in contemporary arts and rigorous enquiry into the relationship between creative practice, theory and criticism.

Imagination

ImaginationLancaster is an open and exploratory design research lab which conducts applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions.

Insight

Insight is a creative research centre with disciplinary bases in Fine Art, Theatre, Film, Dance and Sound. It focuses on making meaning in the arts.

Facilities

LICA Facilities

Lancaster Arts

News

Brisas de las Palmas, Cali, Colombia. Photograph by Angela Franco.

Lancaster University leads GREAT new overseas project

A £1 million project, led by Lancaster University, to give residents of informal settlements in Latin America and the Caribbean a real voice in their future and their developing communities is announced today.
Dr Carlos López Galviz

Lancaster academic to lead prestigious international association

A Lancaster University lecturer will lead a global organisation which puts transport, traffic and mobility under the spotlight.
With Morecambe Bay as its focus, this theme will investigate the ecology of the North West coastal area and explore how new data-based insights can lead to a better public understanding, and appreciation, of how all of our everyday behaviours can impact on local environments

‘Future Places Centre’ to examine how computing will reshape the places in which we live

A new ‘Future Places Centre’ will become a world-leading research hub examining how the computing technology that increasingly surrounds us can shape the places where we live and enable us to live healthier lives.
Campaigners from the Lift the Ban group, led by Refugee Action, who want to change the law to allow asylum seekers to work after waiting six months for a decision on their asylum application.

New online resource will help Mobilise! the community

A new resource which aims to equip people to have their say in political and community life goes online today.

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