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Tap into the brightest minds in academia through consultancy and access state-of-the-art facilities.
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Fast, flexible world-class expertise, when you need it
With 7,000 academic and research staff at the University, we offer an unrivalled pool of expertise and experience for organisations to draw upon. Consultancy is a fast and flexible way of accessing expertise through targeted, focused engagement that can include:
- Specialist opinion;
- Contribution to advisory boards;
- Expert witnesses;
- Production of specialist reports of literature reviews.
Optimising LED technology
Working with Kubos Semiconductors we helped to create a custom toolkit to optimise the performance of LED devices.
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Revolutionising poultry health
Manchester's Professor Timothy Cootes collaborated with leading poultry-breeding company Aviagen to develop software that could identify joint disease in poultry from 3D X-RAY images.
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Northern Powerhouse Rail
The University of Manchester helped to evaluate the social contribution of the Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) project, part of the UK government’s levelling up agenda.
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Super low carbon live music with Massive Attack
A collaboration between the University and Massive Attack produced a roadmap that sets out emissions reduction goals for the live music sector.
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World-leading centres, institutes and facilities
All of our partnerships and collaborations are supported by access to the University's state-of-the-art centres, institutes and facilities. We can help to identify facilities to match your needs.
Here’s a small selection of our world-leading centres, institutes and facilities.
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Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre
- Accelerating lab-to-market development, enabling companies to fast-track technology readiness levels and get new graphene-based products to market quickly.
- Commercialising innovation and helping companies to secure the competitive edge required to reach their economic potential.
- Giving access to world class facilities and resources, supported by internationally renowned academics and experienced applications engineers.
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Data Visualisation Observatory
- A first of its kind in the UK, the Observatory can provide interactive visualisations of large data sets, capture user behaviour in a controlled, immersive environment, and create digital simulations of manufacturing processes and designs, among much more.
- The facility can also be used for video conferencing and information-intensive brainstorming sessions, both in the lab and virtually across the world.
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Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub
- Part of the Henry Royce Institute the Hub works with businesses to create real solutions for plastics use, offering everything from free advice to long term collaboration projects.
- Collaboration can be in the form of a materials assessment on your products and components to inform for sustainable choices, or innovating new sustainable polymers for markets, improving recycling methods and validating emerging sustainable materials.
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Christabel Pankhurst Institute
- £25 million initiative between the University, NHS, business and local government to develop innovative solutions to pressing health and care challenges.
- Acts as an external flagship for the University’s rapidly expanding health technology portfolio.
- Provides support across the translational pathway, from application to funding, regulation, clinical trials, commercialisation and deployment.
Dalton Nuclear Institute
- Bringing together the UK’s largest and most comprehensive academic nuclear research capability to fully cover nuclear energy and decarbonisation including fusion, as well as health and social science.
- Fostering long-term, strategic partnerships across industry, academia and Government, to tackle real-world challenges.
- Providing training and specialist laboratories in Manchester and at our dedicated Dalton Cumbrian Facility.
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We will help you to find the right people and expertise you need to solve your business challenges.
- Get started with a quick conversation where we’ll learn about your needs and aspirations.
- Our business engagement team will work to identify relevant opportunities within our institution.