One of the UK’s most celebrated actors is to give a public lecture at Lancaster University.
The Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University will receive £2.5 million funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the University to continue existing activities and pursue a new research programme for five more years.
Plantations in the Amazon could be more wildlife friendly if they were surrounded by natural forest, according to a prize winning PhD study.
Lancaster University is to receive more than £2.4m in funding to support the next generation of researchers.
A Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University is one of eight top international humanities and social scientists awarded 250,000 euros for research cooperation in Germany.
Climate change is already wreaking havoc on many people around the world, and adaptation is their only hope for survival, according to researchers publishing in Nature Climate Change this week.
The study of heritage languages – the languages spoken by immigrant families at home – will come under the microscope with the advent of a new organisation.
Lancaster University’s Data Science Institute has been awarded £5.5 million for two large-scale research programmes that will bring significant new understanding and aid decision-making in the areas of environmental and public health policy.
Forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black will take up a new post of Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.
New models for teaching Computer Science will be pioneered at Lancaster University as part of a Government investment into a national ‘Institute of Coding’.