Collaborative Research
Science and Technology at Lancaster has an established track record of successful partnerships with business and industry, both in the UK and overseas. This record demonstrates our commitment to ensuring our research and teaching delivers demonstrable economic returns, societal impact and significant benefits to our partners. Our specialist business partnerships team work to develop mutually beneficial partnerships, helping you to identify, engage and collaborate with academic staff from across the full spectrum of science and technology disciplines.
Collaborative Research and Consultancy
Our partnerships is organised across seven key interdisciplinary themes which build on disciplinary excellence and provide natural points of collaboration:
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Energy
- Environment
- Health and Human Development
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Quantum Technology
- Security
Advanced Manufacturing
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- High power microwave engineering
- Micro and nano systems
- Nuclear and renewable energy
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- Structures, design and manufacturing
- Radiometrics and special instruments
Energy
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- Carbon management
- Clean coal
- Energy and behavioural change
- Energy demand management and modelling
- Energy policy and economics
- Fuel cells
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- Nuclear energy
- Photovoltaics and photocatalysis
- Transport and transport usage
- Water renewables
- Wind energy
Environment
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- Atmospheric science
- Biodiversity and global change
- Chemicals management
- Environmental geosciences
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- Food and agriculture
- Society and environment
- Sustainable energy
- Water management
Health and Human Development
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- Advanced manufacturing
- Analytical skills
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- Behavioural, computational and neuropsychological techniques
- Medical and pharmaceutical statistics
Information and Communication Technologies
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- Communications and networking
- Computer systems
- Human-computer interaction
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- Intelligent systems
- Software engineering
Quantum Technology
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- Accelerator science
- Biophotonics
- Low temperature physics
- Nanoscale dynamics and mathematical physics
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- Nanoscale engineering
- Semiconductor physics and nanostructures
- Superconductors
- Quantum computing and communications
Security
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- Conflict in contemporary society
- Cyber security behaviours
- Emerging trends in national/global security politics and technologies
- Forensic linguistics
- Influence and persuasion
- Investigative interviewing and reasoning
- Major case management
- Network resilience and secure communications
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- Radicalisation and the digital culture
- Regional expertise: China, Latin America, Africa, India, Middle East
- Securing mobile and embedded infrastructures
- Sense-making of large heterogeneous information sources
- Social unrest and new technologies
- Vulnerable witness interviewing
Benefits of Collaboration
- Access a unique broad mix of expertise through a theme-based structure, combining disciplines to provide innovative solutions to global challenges
- Access expertise quickly and easily via experienced business partnerships teams embedded alongside our researchers
- Access our multi-million pound facilities and equipment
- Gain extra resources through a flexible range of student projects
- Join our global community, tap into our networks and develop new products and processes for the global marketplace
Working in Partnership
We work with a diverse range of partners operating in a number of recognised industrial sectors across our seven themes. We specifically tailor partnerships recognising the differing needs of new ventures, established high growth companies and larger corporate organisations.
We have a long and successful history of working in partnership with global organisations such as Microsoft, BT Labs, Cisco, NEC, Panasonic, Nokia, Ford, BAE Systems, NDS, Simoc, ATG, Intel, Orange, IMB, QinetiQ, AstraZeneca, Shell, The Linde Group, Unilever and Toshiba.
Science and Technology at Lancaster also works closely with the Environment Agency, Department for Transport, CABI Biosciences (a UN chartered NGO), Waitrose Supermarkets, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water and public sector institutes such as the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, the NHS, UK Government and Police Forces.
These partnership are complemented by a very well established programme of collaboration with over 2250 SMEs since 2005. These collaborations have been enabled via several large-scale, regional economic development projects and the co-location of 91 businesses directly onto the university campus.
For further information contact: Becky Gordon Operations Manager for Business Partnerships and Enterprise Faculty of Science and Technology Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YQ +44 (0)1524 510188