Lancaster Environment Centre has always been a pioneer, pushing the boundaries of research and teaching on the environment. We were one of the first universities in the world to establish a Department of Environmental Science and to offer Ecology as a full degree subject. In 2007 we brought together Geography, Environmental Sciences and Biological Sciences to create the Lancaster Environment Centre, knowing that together we would be more than the sum of our parts. Our vision is to work across disciplines, and societal and national boundaries, to address the major environmental challenges facing the world. As one of the world’s largest centres for environmental research, our academic expertise spans the natural and social sciences, offering balanced perspectives on what are complex societal challenges. Our teaching programmes and research reflect this diversity, operating at the crucial interface between the environment and society. We are the largest department in Lancaster University, which is globally recognised for our quality of teaching and research. Our staff, students and visitors come from around the globe. Through university and strategic partnerships, we are working in Africa, Asia and the Americas, offering opportunities to our students and researchers to be based abroad and to influence the major environmental debates of the future. Our teaching approach is both theoretical and practical, in the lecture room, laboratory and the field. All our students get the opportunity to carry out fieldwork, either on our doorstep in the beautiful North West of England, with its national parks and contrasting terrestrial and aquatic habitats, or in Europe, Amazonia, the Himalayas, North America, Asia and Iceland. So when our students graduate they have excellent job prospects across a wide range of careers globally.