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The awards recognise individuals and teams who have made exceptional contributions to the School community, celebrating achievements across teaching, research, professional services, student experience and external engagement. LUMS Dean, Professor Claire Leitch presented the awards during a celebration event in the newly refurbished Management School Hub.

Lancaster has been ranked among the UK’s top 10 universities in the latest edition of the Complete University Guide. The University is placed 10th out of 164 institutions in the national league table and first among 12 universities in north-west England.

Lancaster University’s Distinguished Professor Nick Graham has been elected to become a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the world’s most prestigious learned societies. With origins dating back to 1660, the Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of sciences and the world’s oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Previous Fellows have included Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Dorothy Hodgkin.

Lancaster researchers are part of a team of experts working to establish the UK’s first dedicated research and innovation network to tackle gambling harm in the north-west of England and beyond. The team has been awarded more than £140,000 to set up Grace-Net: The Gambling Resilience and Community Engagement Network - funded through the first round of research money to come from the government’s Gambling Levy.

Evidence shows that hospitals involved in research deliver better patient outcomes, adopt innovation more rapidly and create environments that attract and retain skilled staff Lancaster University is a member of a consortium of leading northern universities and NHS trusts involved in a new Medical Research Council (MRC) programme designed to strengthen clinical academic careers and research leadership across the North of England.

Digital culture is reshaping people’s experiences of fear, curiosity and belonging, according to new findings from Lancaster University. Researchers have explored why online environments like the “Backrooms” - mysterious empty spaces resembling uncharted office blocks, basements and corridors - have become so compelling, and why people are choosing to get lost in spaces that don’t exist.

Students, staff and business partners at Lancaster University Management School are set to benefit from major building upgrades which were unveiled this spring. The 50-year-old original LUMS building has been transformed to provide facilities fit for the future of education, research and engagement. The East Estate project has brought the building up to the same standard as the recently developed West Pavilion, and created a seamless transition between the two spaces.

ESA’s Smile satellite launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana A new satellite has been launched today that promises to reveal the inner workings of the Earth’s ‘magnetic shield’ that protects us from our Sun’s radiation. The Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is planning to study how the solar wind, a high energy particle stream from our Sun, interacts with the Earth's magnetic environment.

Zog the lovable orange dragon, Doctor Princess Pearl and Sir Gadabout the Great meet many colourful characters on their travels. A Lancaster University Senior Lecturer has written for the new CBeebies TV series, Zog. The episode, penned by Dr Tajinder Singh Hayer, a lecturer in Creative Writing, has just gone live on iPLayer.

Falls are among the leading causes of emergency admissions from care homes in Lancashire and South Cumbria The use of AI smart lights in care homes reduces falls by around a third say Lancaster University researchers, who evaluated the use of this technology in care homes in South Lancashire and Cumbria.