News from 2015
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National Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats launched
¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½ is to lead the UK’s new centre for the development and use of economic and social science research to understand, mitigate and counter security threats.
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¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½ and Nettitude agree strategic cyber security research partnership
¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½ has agreed a strategic research partnership with Nettitude – a leading provider of cyber security services. The partnership will signal a range of collaborations, including joint research projects that will help to develop the knowledge and technologies needed to combat cybercrime.
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George Osborne supports Lancaster’s business-boosting research and development initiative
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has supported an innovative international business-engagement initiative created by ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½.
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National award win for business-boosting environmental research and development programme
A unique environmental research and development programme involving leading universities and almost 300 businesses has won a prestigious national award.
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Banning trans fats could save over 7,000 lives by 2020
A total ban of trans fats in processed foods might prevent or postpone around 7,200 deaths from coronary heart disease over the next five years.
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Lancaster rises in World University Rankings
¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½ has risen 39 places to be ranked 121 in the QS World University Rankings.
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NATO tests technology developed at ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½
Wireless communications technology developed by Lancaster researchers is being tested for its suitability for use by NATO.
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Studying how people in Sweden speak about cancer
Lancaster researchers are helping a team in Sweden investigate how people talk about cancer in terms of verbal imagery.
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Linguistics study reveals our growing obsession with education
As children around the country go back to school, a new comparative study of spoken English reveals that we talk about education nearly twice as much as we did twenty years ago.
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Paving the way to ever-safer anaesthesia
Researchers have made a breakthrough which could help prevent patients suffering stress to the body and from feeling pain or becoming aware during anaesthesia.