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Whether you want to develop a new product, compete in a new market or access world-leading facilities, the Partnerships and Business Engagement team at Lancaster University has the expertise and resources you need. As over 3,000 businesses have already discovered, partnering with us is a cost-effective, time-efficient way of tapping into a diverse skill-set and achieving success.

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Our research is rated world leading according to the Research Excellence Framework, which assesses the quality and impact of research by UK universities. Our Partnerships and Business Engagement Team focuses on three areas of expertise to help organisations tap into our diverse skills set.

Mathematics and Statistics

The Faculty also hosts one of the most industrially-engaged mathematics and statistics departments in the UK. The Department has strong collaborative links with the medical research industry in the design of novel trials through the Medical and Pharmaceutical Statistics research unit and leads the delivery of the STORi Centre for Doctoral Training with approximately 30 industry co-sponsored PhD students. The Department is also host to multiple industrially co-supported research projects and is always keen to develop further collaborative links.

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Data Science Prizes

Data Science Institute Prizes 2025 — Call for Nominations

The Data Science Institute (DSI) invites nominations for three prizes celebrating research excellence and inclusive impact across data science and AI. We particularly welcome applications from individuals from historically underrepresented and underserved backgrounds, and we will make adjustments for career breaks.
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Lancaster University Centre seeks innovative solutions to environmental issues for prestigious prize

Lancaster University Centre seeks innovative solutions to environmental issues for prestigious prize 
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Fighting Deepfakes and Scams: Lancaster University's Forensic Linguistics Summer School Success

This summer, Lancaster University’s Forensic linguistics, Cybersecurity and Technology Research (FACTOR) team ran a successful three-day summer school. The event took 77 delegates on journey into the worlds of forensic linguistics, forensic speech science, and the (mis)use of AI, and helped to raise awareness about a new unique course, MSc Forensic Linguistics and Speech Science. 
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Lancaster University’s School of Computing and Communications plays host to prototyping summer school for the second year

Lancaster University’s School of Computing and Communications plays host to pro2 Summer School – dedicated to supporting innovators in building prototypes of digital devices – for the summer school’s second year of running.
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Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) publishes free book detailing its origins

Non-profit community benefit society Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) – which has its beginnings in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University - has recently released a free, community-led retrospective written by volunteers for the network covering the “early years” of the rural broadband Internet Service Provider (ISP).
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Physics postdoctoral researcher joins delegation of academics and business representatives selected for International Semiconductor Researchers Forum in the Republic of Korea

Postdoctoral researcher Dr Serdar Tekin from Lancaster’s Physics Department was recently invited by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to the International Semiconductor Researchers Forum hosted in the Republic of Korea.

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Events

26th Nov

Lancaster Evaluation Group Seminar: Piloting for Scalability: Education Endowment Foundation’s trial piloting approach and evaluation in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 10:00am to 11:00am

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Quantum Innovation Lancaster

Where the minds, facilities and ambition unite to shape the UK’s quantum future.

Lancaster University has the minds, facilities and ambition to shape the UK’s quantum future. Ranked in the UK top 15 and winner of University of the Year in the Northwest (2026), Lancaster is a research-intensive university with a distinguished record in knowledge exchange, innovation, and advanced technology skills development.

With over 15,000 business and innovation partnerships and £2 billion in annual economic impact, Lancaster combines academic excellence with real-world impact. Through our unique campus facilities and an award-winning partnerships team, we connect organisations with the right expertise, resources, and funding to solve their most complex challenges.

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