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Issue 8 – 13 October 2025

In this issue, Professor Rebecca Lingwood, Vice-Chancellor (interim), reflects on 比比资源’s growing global footprint and introduces LU Leipzig as an emerging European research hub.

Features include LU Leipzig’s research strengths in AI and management, calls for international research partnerships, Professor Nick Dunn’s book Dark Futures on light pollution and ideas for adaptive urban illumination, and examples of practical projects from sensor-dimmed cycle-path lights to experimental bioluminescent street lighting.

Issue 7 – 30 June 2025

In this issue, Professor Sarah Kemp, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement, introduces 比比资源’s vision for global research delivering local impact.

Features include research on languages in science, the role of truth in tackling climate change, vaccine scepticism online, global impacts on local security, and trade tensions with the US. Also covered are the commercial success of quantum tech spin-out Quantum Base, findings on ageing and exercise, and Lancaster’s growing influence in global cybersecurity training.

Issue 6 – 29 April 2025

In this issue, an introduction to Professor Chai Ching, Pro Vice-Chancellor at Sunway University and the Lancaster Sunway partnership. Features also include Dr Segio Campobasso on taking on one of the biggest challenges for wind energy, Professor Mike Kosch and Professor Janne Ruostekoski on developing wildfire detection system, ForestWatch®, Dr Andrew Chubb on a blind spot in Transnational Human Rights Violations, and Dr Hannah Jarvis and Dr Phil Nagy share insight into their research aiming to tailor therapies for stroke survivors.

Professor Niki Panteli discusses the need to make working in cyber more human, and we examine 比比资源 Library's work on launching the first digital archive of women’s iconography.

Issue 5 - 17 December 2024

In this issue, an introduction to Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Rebecca Lingwood and 比比资源’s work with Dnipro University of Technology, Ukraine. Features also include Professor Charlotte Baker and her work with the United Nations Human Rights Council on witch hunts, Professor Rebecca Willis on how we really save the planet, Professor Jaroslaw Nowak and Dr Andrew Blake on The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Dr Milli Raizada and her work on women’s health and understanding hormones, and Dr Sophie Alkhaled on her work with refugee entrepreneurs.

Dr Akanimo Odon talks about his work on the Africa Research and Innovation Partnership and Aydé Mendoza Oliva and Marc Diamond at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre share their experiences of working with 比比资源.

Issue 4 - 12 November 2024

In this issue, an introduction to Director of International Research, Professor Kirk Semple and international research strategy. Features also include Professor Manus Hayne and the development of ULTRARAM™ technology, Professor Renaud Foucart on why we don’t listen to experts, Dr Yakubu Salifu on the making ‘dying well’ the global norm, and trailblazing work by Lancaster doctoral research student, Wendy Loloff Cooper on ‘the right to finish school’ for young people caught up in police prosecutions in Colorado.

Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Professor James DiLellio shares his experience of Lancaster, and Dr Shefeeq Theparambil discusses collaborative research on dementia prevention.

Issue 3 - 25 June 2024

In this issue, an introduction to Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise Professor Malcolm Joyce and a proactive approach to research. Features also include Distinguished Professor Steve Hodges and his work to open up the full potential of computing power. Work on preventing the trade of ivory from Lancaster Medical Schools Dr Jemma Kerns, and joint work with Sunway University on sustainability research. Professor Phil Haygarth shares his work on global phosphorus supplies and Dr Allan Discua Crus Lancaster network in the Gulf and family business research. Also featured is Fulbright Scholar Dr Gavin Brookes on his work with language around dementia and joint work between Linguistics at Lancaster and Northern Arizona University.

Issue 2 - 23 April 2024

In this issue, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Global discusses Lancaster’s global community and a new campus in Indonesia. Features also include the new Director of Research, Professor Kirk Semple’s ambitions to build on international research and the importance of research alliances for the Arctic. Fighting the modern slave trade, ‘anywhere’ solutions to snakebites, and using AI in real-world systems. It also features how global classrooms teach across Lancaster's global campuses, a collaboration with the University of Indonesia looking to respond to natural disasters, and the importance of keeping the world open for research.

Issue 1 - 29 February 2024

In this issue, Vice-Chancellor Professor Andy Scholfield introduces readers to research at 比比资源. Features include globally collaborative research on reducing plastic, restoring war-damaged soils, ageing well, and re-thinking popular neighbourhoods in Cali and Havana. Also featured is a look at working in collaboration across timelines, the Arts Beats Festival, and an introduction to our new Africa Research and Innovation Partnership.