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Driving Impact, Connecting Partners, Generating Value 10 Corporate Partners with transformational partnerships £ 52 million Income and awards from ‘business’ 1, 000 projects a year Projects with ‘business’
Our key offers Collaborative R&D Skilled people Innovation We provide smart solutions to business challenges We help you to grow, recruit and retain talent We help small businesses to think bigger Executive Education, Training and professional development; degree apprenticeships highly motivated students for projects. New technologies; analysis; science park; raising venture funds; business acceleration programmes through SETsquared – the Global Number 1 University-Business incubator. Flexible, cost-effective, interdisciplinary, worldclass facilities, Regional R&D hubs, pragmatic contracting; shared risk.
A Global University driving Regional Innovation Regional Development and Innovation Hubs Environmental Futures and Big Data Impact Lab Environmental Growth for Business
Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship University of Exeter Business School focussed on leadership, innovation and economics 1000 student entrepreneurs Think, Try, Do
Key sectors and areas of expertise Advanced Engineering, Data, Energy and Mining Culture Government and Society Healthcare and Biotech Environment, Sustainability and Food Security
Environment, Sustainability and Food Security We work with organisations impacted by environmental change to ensure that opportunities are optimised and risks mitigated. This includes influencing development of environmental policy linked to management of natural assets and climate change; supporting environmentally sustainable food production and international development; and to improve infrastructure resilience to natural hazards. Our priorities are: • • • Agri-Environment and Sustainable Land Use Aquaculture Marine Environmental Data, Risk and resilience Bio. Economy • • Water and Sustainable Infrastructure Circular Economy International Development and the Environment Animal Welfare and Wildlife
Environment, Sustainability and Food Security Case study: South West Water Our collaborations with South West Water (SWW) on effective landscape management in catchment areas have impressed the regulator, OFWAT; significantly reduced costs at treatment plants; and led to enhanced biodiversity and increased carbon capture. Building on this success, we are now working with SWW on a £ 30 million collaborative centre for Water, Waste and Environmental Resilience. This will benefit multiple industry sectors and allow us to demonstrate the value of integrated and collaborative environmental research.
Environment, Sustainability and Food Security Case study: Eradicating microplastics… The tide of plastics in the ocean is rising rapidly creating damage to marine ecosystems, people’s livelihoods and wider socio-ecological damage. Exeter academics are at the forefront of finding solutions to this global challenge. Professor Tamara Galloway has been researching the effects of microplastics on marine wildlife and how ingestion of these objects by some of the smallest creatures in the ocean can have implications for the rest of the food chain.
Advanced Engineering Data, Energy and Mining We deliver solutions in computational and networking challenges; high performance nanocomposites; lightweight structures; additive manufacturing; rapid prototyping; manufacturing systems and supply chains; energy harvesting; energy generation and storage; renewable energy; power electronics; vibration serviceability; mining. Our priorities are: • Data Science • Structural and Civil Engineering • Mining and Geology • Advanced Engineering • Marine Technology
Advanced Engineering, Data, Energy and Mining Example: Training programmes and Degree Apprenticeships BSc Digital and Technology Solutions Degree Apprenticeship • Minimise the impact on the apprentices’ roles within their company • Taught through blended learning • Programme has attracted excellent strategic partners BT: “More than ever we think that the University of Exeter programme is not only the best in the UK, but will be the best for BT’s Research and Innovation apprentices. ” IBM: “We’ve been impressed at just how much our apprentices achieved at work and university. The degree apprenticeship is a fantastic opportunity to combine academic and workplace learning. ”
Advanced Engineering, Data, Energy and Mining Case study: Revolutionising clean energy solutions… Exeter academics have developed a clean solution for buildings that could revolutionise the construction industry Professor Tapas Mallick, Dr Hasan Baig and Jim Williams have created streamlined solar technology that fits neatly into glass blocks. Facades using the innovative product, called Solar Squared, will generate electricity and also provide improved thermal insulation.
Healthcare and Biotechnology We work with partners across the NHS, charity, pharma, biotechnology, sports and food sectors. Our aim is to improve quality of life by providing product innovation, validated treatments and devices, enhanced nutrition and exercise, and healthcare interventions that lead to policy change. Our priorities are: • Health and Wellbeing • Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology • Medical Technologies • Clinical Development
Healthcare and Biotechnology Case study: Quorn Sports and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter have supported Quorn in expanding their brand into the sports nutrition and elderly markets. By focusing on how mycoprotein supports muscle synthesis and investigations on how their products may help to reduce muscle wasting, our research has led to the submission of the University’s largest Industrial Partnership Award to the BBSRC at over £ 1 million (with a £ 180 k contribution from Quorn). Other studies undertaken at Exeter could soon significantly reduce the amount of product Quorn loses in production and save many millions of
Healthcare and Biotechnology Case study: Finding a cure for neonatal diabetes… Research at Exeter has revealed two new genetic causes of neonatal diabetes. The research provides further insights on how the insulinproducing beta cells are formed in the pancreas. The team discovered that mutations in two genes are important for development of the pancreas can cause the disease. Dr Sarah Flanagan says “Our genetic discovery is critical to the advancement of knowledge on how insulin-producing beta cells are formed in the pancreas, which has implications for research into manipulating stem cells, which could one day lead to a cure. ”
Government and Society We work with partners to transform policy and practice, inspire change and deliver solutions relating to migration; cyberspace; defence; conflict and security; equality in the workplace; public sector reform and Brexit. Our priorities are: • Government, Crime, Justice, Law • Education • Defence, Security, Conflict • Leadership, Management and Organisational Strategy • Finance, Tax and Business Risk
Government and Society For example: IBM Partnership Since 2017 we have achieved a step change in our relationship with IBM. The relationship has leveraged approximately £ 2 million in awards (including the Hefce Institute of Coding), in excess of £ 800, 000 of in-kind funding, and a pipeline of over £ 1 million. IBM have invested more than £ 250, 000 in education programmes (eg Degree Apprenticeships), and our focus on IBM’s international research labs (Benelux, Africa) has resulted in a prestigious IBM Faculty Award and Industrial Strategy funding.
Government and Society Case study: Combatting anti-social behaviour… A collaboration between University of Exeter and Devon and Cornwall Police resulted in the installation of breathalysers in the pubs and clubs of Torquay, thereby acting as a deterrent for ‘pre-loading’. The collaboration began when Detective Chief Inspector Neil Ralph from Devon and Cornwall Police contacted academics at the University of Exeter to assist in a month-long pilot he was leading to decrease violence and anti-social behaviour in the night-time economy across South Devon.
Culture Our work supports cultural protection in areas of global conflict; the rapid growth of the UK creative industry sector; engaging wider and more diverse audiences for culture; and research into the relationships between cultural engagement and health and wellbeing. We are building relationships with industry partners as well as the public sector and cultural stakeholders regionally, nationally and internationally. priorities are: • Our Heritage Innovation • Creative Economy and Creative Digital Technologies • Place Shaping and the Arts
Culture Case study: Heritage Advisory Group Our work in the Heritage sector has supported the development of a new Heritage Industry Group including Historic England, Atkins, Cornwall Museum Partnership, Cotswold Archaeology, National Trust, Survival International and World Heritage UK. They are supporting a new MA in International Heritage Management and Consultancy, to train Heritage specialists who don’t want to be museum curators. Key to our approach is a commitment to understanding the ways in which heritage practice is transforming in the context of social, cultural, economic, political and environmental change around the world.
Culture Case study: Opening up the history of Florence… An opportunity to experience an unseen side of Florence is now possible via a new smartphone app which brings the past to life through the eyes of an ordinary 15 th Century Florentine. In the Italian Renaissance city of Florence, tourists often take the well-trodden routes of seeing the iconic artworks of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Michelangelo’s David.
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