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Security Lancaster is a leading hub for transformative security research and engagement. Our diverse community tackles today’s toughest challenges—redefining security through bold, interdisciplinary inquiry that changes how we understand and shape a safer world.

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  • Research

    The Security Lancaster community delivers innovative research that reimagines how individuals, organisations, and societies secure and protect themselves. Our work spans use-inspired and fundamental research, delivering meaningful impact across the security domain.

  • Enterprise and Engagement

    Our community strives to deliver real-world impact through collaboration that leads to world class research. Our work is shaping safer, more resilient communities through collaboration with industry, government, and civil society across the security and citizen protection landscape.

  • Education

    Our community is committed to developing the next generation of security leaders through education that is informed by cutting-edge research and real-world challenges. Our teaching empowers learners to shape safer, more resilient communities across the security and citizen protection landscape.

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Unsecurities Lab 2

Unsecurities Lab #2: Landscape Defence

On 10 July 2025, Lancaster University’s Data Immersion Suite became a screening and discussion centre for the second Unsecurities Lab: a unique one-day workshop method that treats immersive art as an environment for cultivating new forms of security diagnosis: Unsecurities Lab is a Security Lancaster initiative, aimed at interdisciplinary innovation in the security field. It is produced in partnership with art and advanced tech organisation Abandon Normal Devices.
Nick Miles and Professor Sarah Kemp

Lancashire Cyber Festival highlights North West’s opportunity to build a world-leading cyber ecosystem

More than 200 senior business leaders, investors, policymakers, and academics from across the UK gathered this week at the Lancashire Cyber Festival hosted at Lancaster University. 
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Breaking barriers and building futures: Lancaster University inspires next generation of cyber experts

Over 50 school pupils from schools across Lancashire stepped onto Lancaster University’s campus for a deep dive into the world of cyber security. It was a day of practical hands-on activities designed to spark a passion for the skills and traits required in cyber roles and inspire pupils toward future careers in the field.
Working closely with police forces, the P-ACEs will drive collaboration among academia and policing

Lancaster to become Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

The National Police Chiefs’ Council ​(NPCC) in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has chosen Lancaster University as one of nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) sharing a total of £4.5 million. 
Unsecurities Lab Workshop 1

Unsecurities Lab #1: Report from the First Workshop

On 27 March 2025, the first Unsecurities Lab workshop brought together diverse specialists to explore how immersive art can reshape security thinking amidst systemic changes.
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Empowering the nuclear sector: Lancaster University host cyber security training for industry professionals

The World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS), in collaboration with Lancaster University and the Austrian institute of Technology (AIT), has successfully completed the fourth delivery of its flagship training course, Cybersecurity in the Nuclear Industry.

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