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Ways of Working with Us

Our Regional Business Partnerships Centre are always ready to talk to you about your business needs and recommend an appropriate way forward for engaging with us. These are some of the options open to you:

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership - a national initiative partially subsidised (up to 67% government contribution) which places a recently qualified graduate in your company to undertake strategically important work for between 12 and 36 months.
• Sponsored research -  for when you would like an academic to carry out research on your behalf and you have funds to support it (either in full or part).  Research grants or government funding may be available to support this work, see Funding Support
• Consultancy - most appropriate for engaging an academic on a short-term assignment, for short-term strategic advice or for training and development support.
• Placements/Internships - affordable student employment (usually over the Summer period) used for short and distinct projects of between 4 and 15 weeks.
• Student and graduate employment - use our busy Careers Service to advertise your vacancy.
• Do your own research - hire our facilities to carry out research for yourself
• Intellectual Property support