Future Space residents can benefit from an open invitation to the UWE CRIB seminars. With regular guest speakers and a chance to hear from leading academics, this is a great opportunity to find potential collaboration opportunities.

This week, the topic is “Engaging with Businesses”

Scanning the horizon of funding opportunities, we see an increased emphasis on building partnerships and engaging with community. But amidst teaching responsibilities, administration and academic research interests, how can academics possibly find time to also work with businesses? What’s in it for them?

Ellen Parkes (Business Development Manager) and Nicola Temple (Faculty Lead, HAS) from UWE’s Research, Business and Innovation (RBI) Department will join CRIB on Friday (25th) to provide some important context about why it’s important to engage with businesses – for you personally, as well as for CRIB, the Faculty and UWE as a whole. They will talk through the various mechanisms (e.g. funding) to support engagement and give examples of how a simple interaction – such as bringing in an external speaker – can grow into research opportunities. Aniko will then give an overview of work that’s happening within CRIB to support business engagement, with plenty of time for discussion afterwards.

Join the call: here.