
Research
Our research is globally-significant and has substantial real-world impact across a range of fields.

Professor Sarah Kemp, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Engagement)
Sarah Kemp is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement. She leads on the Knowledge Exchange Framework and the Civic University’s Agreement. Lancaster University places equal weight on the quality of its teaching, its research and its engagement, as all are critical to the civic responsibility of a university in the 21st Century. She leads on the Eden North project and broader external engagement with National Cyber Force.
Sarah has built a career which is fluid across many sectors within the private and public sector arena, building on an original foundation as a science and technology graduate of Kings College London. She subsequently became a successful international business development manager in life science and scientific instrumentation markets, at which time she also successfully completed a Master's in Business Administration.
Professor Professor Sarah Kemp, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Engagement)
Collaborative, connected, bold
Home to 1,500+ academics and research staff, and close to 2,000 postgraduate research students, Lancaster University aims to develop a culture and environment that enables world-class research. Our diverse community of researchers transform lives and communities, changing practice and thinking across the globe. Discover what drives our researchers to connect globally, push disciplinary boundaries, take risks, ask the big questions and improve the world around them.
Security Lancaster
As an umbrella of Lancaster’s cyber security activities, the Lancaster Security Institute (SL) targets the broad spectrum of "useful and usable" cyber security with a unique data-centric socio-technical "systems" perspective.
Security Lancaster

Data Science Institute
The Data Science Institute at Lancaster University aims to set the global standard for a truly interdisciplinary approach to contemporary data-driven research challenges. Established in 2015, the Data Science Institute (DSI) has over 300 members and has raised nearly £35 million in research grants.
Data Science InstituteCentre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)
The UK's hub for behavioural and social science research into security threats.
Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

Cyber Security Research Centre
The Cyber Security Research Centre is a rich, vibrant community of multidisciplinary researchers passionate about driving the development of solutions to the challenges of modern digital life.
Cyber Security