News Archive

Thursday, 23 November 2023CHICAS Research Highlighted by the COR-NTD Consortium : Our research work was praised at the consortium's tenth anniversary celebration.
Monday, 13 November 2023MSc Health Data Science Guest Talks : Our MSc Health Data Science students recently had the opportunity to hear from guest speakers across different industries about what they do in health data science, and the career paths that have led them to where they are now.
Monday, 10 October 2022CHICAS becomes a WHO Collaborating Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease research : The World Health Organisation has officially designated Lancaster’s CHICAS as a WHO Collaborating Centre on Geostatistical methods for Neglected Tropical Disease Research.
Monday, 1 November 2021Software Skills Workshops for 2021 : Level-up your research software skills with a series of Thursday workshops.
Monday, 19 April 2021Student Project Showcase Launch : We have now launched our student showcase page, highlighting the work done by taught postgraduate students.
Monday, 23 March 2020COVID-19 Coronavirus Research : A number of CHICAS research staff and students are now devoting much of their research efforts to COVID-19-related activity. Our modelling activities are helping to advise and support pandemic response and decision making in the UK and internationally. You can read about our work on the COVID-19 project page.
Monday, 24 February 2020Peter Diggle's 70th Birthday Celebrations : University Distinguished Professor Peter Diggle celebrated his 70th birthday recently.
Sunday, 25 November 2018PhD Student Honoured in Sri Lankan President's Awards : Dileepa Ediriweera's snakebite research recognised in prestigious national awards.
Monday, 2 July 2018Benjamin Amoah Teaches Disease Mapping in Kenya : PhD student Benjamin delivered a workshop to public health staff from six African countries.
Thursday, 22 February 2018Peter Macharia Visit to CHICAS : Award-winning student Peter Macharia recently visited CHICAS from Kenya.
Monday, 22 January 2018RSS Awards for CHICAS Staff : Peter Diggle and Emanuele Giorgi awarded honours by the Royal Statistical Society for 2018.
Wednesday, 13 December 2017MSc Student Project Success : Olivia Pennington's MSc project work to be presented at the 2018 Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery meeting.
Friday, 15 September 2017Disease Mapping Workshop at Lancaster : A two-day workshop for disease mapping in developing countries.
Tuesday, 11 July 2017CHICAS hosting Nuffield Research Placement student. : School student to experience the University research environment and make valuable scientific contributions.
Wednesday, 3 May 2017CHICAS Researcher to Mentor Google Summer School Student : Barry Rowlingson will be advising a programming project in open-source GIS integration.
Thursday, 6 October 2016GBIF Young Researcher Award for CHICAS PhD Student : Juan Escamilla Mólgora wins €4000 award for research into complex ecological community analysis.
Sunday, 24 July 2016Bluetongue Epidemics Workshop at Lancaster : A one-day workshop on control and protection.
Tuesday, 16 February 2016CHICAS at TIES2016, Edinburgh, July 2016 : Dr Luigi Sedda has organised an invited session for the International Environmetrics Society conference (TIES) on Vector-borne disease mapping.
Tuesday, 17 November 2015CHICAS Partnership with Liverpool Tropical Medicine Creates New PhD Opportunities : Our successful MRC application has resulted in a number of fully-funded studentships in quantitative and translational research for Global Health.
Tuesday, 10 November 2015PhD Student Wins TakeAIM Prize : Justice Aheto has won a prize that recognises the value and impact of his research on malnutrition in Ghana.
Tuesday, 25 August 2015Geostat Summer School at Lancaster : The Geostat Summer School was held in Lancaster from the 16th to the 23rd.
Sunday, 26 July 2015Chris Jewell Featured in Nvidia's GPU blog : Chris has been interviewed for the Nvidia "CUDA Zone" blog, talking about his epidemic modelling work.
Tuesday, 16 June 2015Five New Staff for CHICAS : The University's 50th Anniversary Lectureships will bring five new staff to CHICAS, doubling the size of the group.
Monday, 30 March 2015NHS Prescribing Data Releases Confirm Earlier Work : A year of prescribing data from the NHS has shown the same pattern as published in our BMJ Open paper.
Monday, 9 February 2015MRC Fellowship for CHICAS PhD Student : Emanuele Giorgi is to receive an MRC Career Development Award in Biostatistics to work on tropical disease epidemiology.
Thursday, 22 January 2015One Health Workshop in South Africa : Theresa attended this British Council-funded workshop bringing together researchers from around the world.
Friday, 28 November 2014Geostat 2015 Comes to Lancaster : A week-long summer school for spatial statistics.
Wednesday, 1 October 2014New Staff and Students : This term we have new staff, new visitors and new students.
Monday, 17 March 2014Hospital Prediction Model Running : We recently deployed a real-time admissions forecasting system for a leading children's hospital. Our statistical methods perform better than existing predictive methods and help in efficient resource planning.
Thursday, 13 March 2014Emanuele Giorgi Wins International Research Prize : International Biometric Society prize goes to our research student