The Mort Lab is committed to sharing our research with the wider public, from school visits and public talks to media engagement and community events.
Media coverage
Public engagement
| 2026 | Melissa Wright – The Westmorland Show, Engagement with farmers about heat stress and welfare. |
| 2026 | Melissa Wright – The Royal Highland Show, Engagement with farmers about heat stress and welfare. |
| 2025 | Richard Mort – Talk to sixth-form students, Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale (CREST) |
| 2024 | Mort Lab – Light up Lancaster: In Microns — contributed fluorescence images to public interactive installation at The Storey Institute, Lancaster |
| 2020 | Richard Mort – Visit to Norbreck Genetics and the farm of Philip Halhead to discuss cattle pigmentation |
| 2019 | Richard Mort – Farm visit with Dr. Luigi Sedda to discuss pigmentation research with farmer James Parker |
| 2018 | Richard Mort – Lay talk: The cell cycle — sixth-form students from Ripley St. Thomas CE Academy |
| 2017 | Richard Mort – Lay talk: Where does melanoma come from? — NWCR lay members |
| 2017 | Richard Mort – Fundraising speaker, NWCR Lunesdale Branch AGM |
North West Melanoma
Richard co-leads the North West Melanoma interest group with Dr. Kerrie Marie (University of Manchester), bringing together clinicians and researchers from across the region to advance melanoma research and stimulate collaboration. The group holds regular symposia and has recently launched a small grants scheme to support early-career researcher collaborative visits (~£1,000).
For information about the group or to express interest in joining, view our webpages or contact nw-melanoma@lancaster.ac.uk.
Awards and recognition
2021 – Lee A. Segel Prize, Society for Mathematical Biology, for best paper in mathematical biology (Yates, Ford & Mort, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 2017)
2015 – Bertero A, Vallier L. Fucci2a mouse upgrades live cell cycle imaging. Cell Cycle. 2015;14(7):948–9. doi:10.1080/15384101.2015.1006549. PMID: 25807308; PMCID: PMC4613997