Lancaster University

Lancaster University (originally created as the University of Lancaster) is a campus university in Lancaster, England. The University has a good academic reputation, doing well in national league tables. It has one of the best environmental science departments in the UK and a world-renowned business school. The physics department has a global reputation for its research in low temperature physics. The sociology department has an excellent reputation as well. Typical offers in most subjects are around BBB at A-level.

Notable Professors

Norman Fairclough, a proponent of critical discourse analysis, is Professor of Language in Social Life. With Oxford University, Lancaster compiled the British National Corpus, a 100 million word collection of a range of spoken and written texts, in the 1990s. This is an important contribution to corpus linguistics.

Related Topics:
Norman Fairclough - Critical discourse analysis - Oxford University - British National Corpus - Corpus linguistics

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