Faculty of Science and Technology

Female Terrorists Study Contradicts Stereotypes

Much like their male counterparts, female terrorists are likely to be educated, employed and native residents of the country where they commit a terrorist act, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

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Thu 17 May 2012

Animal Disease Research Misses the Human Perspective

Animal disease research concentrates too much on the behaviour of micro organisms while ignoring the role played by human beings; we need to take more account of the human dimension if the work of scientists is to be translated effectively into policy, according to scientists at Lancaster and Liverpool universities.

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Tue 15 May 2012

'DIY' Techie Innovators Working with Homeless on Prototype Healthcare Tool

Lancaster University is bringing a new wave of citizen scientists together with the homeless in the North West to dream up new technology which could change their lives.

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Fri 11 May 2012

TheBigThink: Your Ticket to Campus Party Europe in Berlin

Campus Party, Telefonica O2 and more than a hundred universities throughout the EU, under the patronage of the European Commission are developing "TheBigThink," a project that makes access to the event easier, and creates the foundation of the ideas we will work on to build a better Europe.

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Fri 11 May 2012

Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power

Thursday 21 June 2012
Bowland North, Seminar Rm 6

Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power

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(In)determinate Subjects: Indeterminacy & Justice

Friday 22 June 2012, 1000-1800
FASS Meeting Room 2

Increasing attention has been given to exploring how to account for entities that are both between time and between natures, such as subject/objects, forms of biotic, technoscientific and inhuman life. This conversation will ask: In what ways can indeterminate entities be observed within (and in excess of) the material/practical conditions of their emergence? How do these conditions create different kinds of responsibility(and new vocabularies which trouble and expand the contours of...

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Catchment Change Network International Conference: Stakeholders, next generation models, and risk in managing catchment change

Mon 25 - Wed 27 June 2012
Lancaster University Management School

Over the last three years the Catchment Change Network (CCN) has organised a programme of workshops and meetings to discuss and develop guidelines for incorporating risk and uncertainty into the management of catchment change in the areas of flood risk, water scarcity and diffuse pollution. This final international conference will present the progress that has been made in that time in both the CCN and other projects. A particular focus will be on the research needs in both modelling the...

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GLUE: 20 years on

Professor Keith Beven and Professor Andy Binley, Lancaster Environment Centre

Wed 27 - Thu 28 June 2012
Lancaster Environment Centre

2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the first GLUE paper by Beven and Binley in 1992 and has, in addition, just passed 1000 citations on the Web of Science. The GLUE methodology has been controversial; viewed by some as simply wrong, by others as an earlier version of Approximate Bayesian Computation, and by others as a useful way of trying to reflect the impacts of epistemic errors on complex error structures in environmental modelling. This workshop will have the aim of reviewing: the way in...

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