Industry

Knowledge Transfer Account (KTA)

If you are a business and wish to work with our department, the KTA may be able to help. The KTA helps set up short and medium term (typically 6 months to 3 years) partnerships between our department and industry to fulfil specific research and specialist project goals.

Please visit our KTA website for more details and examples of what the KTA has done.

Taking on placement students

The University and our Department have a long history of placing undergraduate students on 12 month professional placements with a wide range of companies in various roles.

Currently 80% of our Computer Science undergraduates take a placement year, a far higher rate than for other top universities. Most of our students get job offers before returning for their final year. Early involvement with us maximises the chance you can recruit the best.

We also offer 6 month placements for Masters students. These placements are the final part, July to December, of their Masters course. Companies who are impressed with their placement students can retain them as employees, with no break in service.

Our exceptional students, as well as gaining invaluable experience for themselves, can quickly become a member of your team - taking on the role and responsibilities of any normal junior employee.

The knowledge and experience gained on a professional placement isn't lost after the 12 month period. Placement students are likely to maintain ties with their placement company. Employing them when they graduate means they have the ideal skills and familiarity to re-join your company with the minimum of training.

If you are interested in taking on placement students or finding out more information, please contact our professional placements officer, Louise Oliver - L.Oliver@bath.ac.uk

Employer engagement

To complement our professional placements programme and improve the employability of our students, we are interested in involving employers throughout a student's degree. This may range from a one-off hour long lecture to a regular programme of workshops to equip our students with the skills they need for professional life.

This, of course, is of great value to both the students and employers - giving you the opportunity to highlight your specific field to prospective future employees and provide to them the skills to excel should they join you.

If you would like to discuss these ideas further please contact our professional placements officer, Louise Oliver - l.oliver@bath.ac.uk

Contractual work

It is often the case that companies may require specialist analysis or expertise not available within their facilities or staff. It may be possible that we can provide assistance in this area - utilising our sophisticated laboratories and equipment, highly trained research staff and renowned academics.

For further inquiries please contact Rachid Hourizi - r.hourizi@bath.ac.uk

Sponsorships

There are many extremely talented undergraduate and postgraduate students who have every desire to study but are limited by a lack of funding for their fees and living expenses.

If you are able to assist these students please contact the Graduate School (fsci-gs-admissionsqueries@rt.bath.ac.uk) for postgraduate sponsorship and Dilly Brownlow - d.b.brownlow@bath.ac.uk for undergraduate sponsorship.

Research

Research is what drives developments in our specialist fields - whilst industrial research and development accounts for a significant portion of progress, academic research also fills a unique role.

If you would like to find out more about the research our department is currently involved, please visit our reseach pages. If you have a specific research proposal in mind or would like to discuss the possibilities of funding research further please contact Guy McCusker -

Research is what drives developments in our specialist fields - whilst industrial research and development accounts for a significant portion of progress, academic research also fills a unique role.

We have a specific, funded programme for placing a research team at your disposal, aimed at specific industries. Please see our national Centre for Digital Entertainment pages for details.

If you would like to find out more about the research in our Department, please visit our "Research areas" pages. If you have a specific research proposal in mind or would like to discuss the possibilities of funding research, please contact Guy McCusker - g.a.mccusker@bath.ac.uk

Department of Computer Science