Industrial Partnerships
We help academic staff build relationships with industry partners, apply for funding and manage projects in support of internal and external strategies.
Our responsibilities include:
- helping our researchers to identify ways to connect with industry
- facilitating new relationships with industry and inter-disciplinary research collaborators
- finding ways to fund research, through the government’s Industrial Strategy and/or private investment
- assessing funding applications for industry-linked research and help to build a winning bid
- supporting the development of scalable business interactions with research groups and individuals
- linking your commercialisation experts with our world-class SetSquared Business Incubator
Management
Team members
Julie Chambers, Business Gateway and Consultancy Services Manager, supports you to provide expert advice to business and organisations, on a range of industrial or commercial problems
Alice Hovanessian, Research Project and Finance Coordinator, coordinates our institutional funding
Further information on our EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
Juliet Mather, KTP Recruitment and Administration Officer, recruits KTP Associates at the University
Jun Zhang, KTP Finance Administrator, administers the finances of all KTP awards
Further information on Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)
Industrial Partnership Managers
Our IPMs provide advice and guidance to academics on business-led research:
Consultancy Services
Institutional funding
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)
Connecting you to enterprise and innovation
We can also connect you with the Research Commercialisation and Enterprise team, that assist with invention protection and development, licensing, as well as supporting high-growth businesses and the entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers who create them: