Engage with our staff
We work together with our partners, academics and researchers to identify the most appropriate framework for collaboration, funding and contractual terms.
Examples of potential engaement include:
- Consultancy offers collaborations with individual academics, or an expert team drawn from different areas of cutting-edge research.
- A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) enables a business to bring in new skills and the latest academic thinking to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project through a knowledge-based partnership.
- Collaborative research projects enable real world challenges to be tackled in a systematic and substantial way.
- Short courses and training (Continuing Professional Development) provide bespoke skills development for a workforce.
- Secondments are a great way of directly engaging with us in a day-to-day working environment and developing hands-on expertise. Your staff could be seconded into the University or academics could be seconded into your workplace.
- Sponsoring a Doctoral Researcher towards a PhD qualification enables work on a research project, with support from academic expertise.