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Professor Nick Race
Professor Nick Race

Issue 11 - 2 June 2026

In this issue, Director of Research Culture Nick Race reflects on Lancaster’s collaborative research environment and its role in driving innovation across disciplines.

Features include:

  • The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education awarded for the global impact of the BBC micro:bit
  • The appointment of Professor Idris Eckley as a founding Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences
  • Lancaster’s partnership with Ukrainian universities to develop adaptive prosthetic technologies for injured soldiers.

Additional stories highlight unpacking the rise of the manosphere; new insights into human?centred AI and the future of work; UK Space Agency?funded advances in sub?terahertz internet technologies to connect remote regions; doctoral research improving stroke survivors’ mobility; and alumnus Robbie Love’s contributions to the British National Corpus and contemporary linguistics.

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