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Lancaster wins award for "innovation success story"

Lancaster University has won the Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year Award in the Times Higher Education Awards 2025. Lancaster’s winning entry was for Quantum Base Q-ID® - a new global standard in anti-counterfeiting technology.

Times Higher Education Awards 2025
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Lancaster University wins climate action award

Lancaster has won the 2030 Climate Action award at the 2025 Green Gown Awards. This award celebrates our commitment to achieving carbon net zero from energy emissions by 2030, and our sector-leading approach to decarbonising our activities.

2025 Green Gown Awards
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Lancaster University to create £2 million nuclear facility control room simulator

Lancaster University will strengthen its support for the UK’s clean energy goals and help enhance the country’s future nuclear safety and security with the creation of a new nuclear facility control room simulator.
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Global showcase for Lancaster’s quantum technology and innovation

Lancaster University has highlighted its innovation in quantum science and technology with three stands at the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase in London.
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Times Higher Education Award for Lancaster’s “innovation success story”

Lancaster University has won the Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year Award in the Times Higher Education Awards 2025. 
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Lancaster academics make global highly cited researcher list

Five Lancaster University researchers have been listed among the world’s most influential academics, in rankings released by Clarivate. 
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UK Radiography Professional of the Year award for researcher

A Lancaster Medical School researcher has been awarded the title of UK Radiography Professional of the Year.
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Human impact on Amazon forests is transforming its ecological functions and evolutionary history

A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests.

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