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Research & Innovation Support Conference. Building Successful Strategic Partnerships. David Hogg – University of Leeds Rachel Sandham - Arup Lesley Patrick – Opera North Katharine Carter & Megan Parsons – Marks & Spencer. Research & Innovation Support Conference.
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Research & Innovation Support Conference Building Successful Strategic Partnerships David Hogg – University of Leeds Rachel Sandham - Arup Lesley Patrick – Opera North Katharine Carter & Megan Parsons – Marks & Spencer
Research & Innovation Support Conference • University of Leeds Strategic Partnerships • Objective - Work with business, public and third-sector partners to create social & economic benefit • create social and economic impact and benefit. • be easily accessible to businesses. • develop and maintain a defined number of high quality strategic partnerships. • Work on a national and international scale. • Refresh 2013 to highlight need for more partnership development? Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference • Government is keen to support work with industry • Lambert Report (2003) • Science and Innovation Investment Framework (2004 – 2014) • HEIF programmes (2004 – 2011 ---2015) • Technology Strategy Board 2007 • EU €10m Proof of Concept Fund (2011) • TSB Catapults; Innovation and Knowledge Centres (2012) • UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (2012) • CIHE National Centre for Universities and Business (2013) Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Defining principles of strategic partnerships • Defining principle should be that the University and its external partner have a formal mutually beneficial relationship based on shared values and goals which aims to deliver long term outcomes that neither party could achieve on its own. Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Introducing our guests Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Memorandum of Understanding with Arup Rachel Sandham, Associate Ove Arup and Partners Ltd
Research & Innovation Support Conference • Memorandum of Understanding with Arup • A bit about Arup • Why University of Leeds? • The partnership • Experience to date • Where next? • Lessons Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference A bit about Arup…
£1bn+ Global Income (£m)
Research & Innovation Support Conference Research & Innovation Support Conference Arup’s ambition is to Shape a Better World. That is why we strive to go further than just delivering the most high quality creative work for our clients. We also aim to leave a lasting and sustainable legacy for the future. Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Why University of Leeds?
Research & Innovation Support Conference Research & Innovation Support Conference • 19 of the 45 staff in the Fire Engineering practice have achieved either undergraduate and/or post graduate qualifications with the University of Leeds • For at least the past 5 years we have supported one, and sometimes two MSc work placement modules from the Catchment Dynamics and Management course, many of these placements have resulted in employment within Arup Leeds • “Every year I give a lecture to the MSc Project Management course run by the Civil Engineering Dept entitled ‘The Role of the Project Manager’.” • Arup sponsored water@leeds Expert Event (one day conference) on the Water Framework Directive in January 2012 Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference The partnership
Research & Innovation Support Conference Research & Innovation Support Conference ANNEXES • Research • Business • Education • Policy Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Research & Innovation Support Conference Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
What could we achieve? Research & Innovation Support Conference Shaping abetter world University researchand people Arup’s client applications and people Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Experience to date
Research & Innovation Support Conference Research & Innovation Support Conference • Intelligent Asset Management • Improving Urban Resilience • Food security • Proposals • eg Marie Curie Initial Training Network • ICE tutoring scheme Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Research & Innovation Support Conference Engineering Project Academy Executive Board Advisory Board Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Where next?
Research & Innovation Support Conference Research & Innovation Support Conference Organisation and process ANNEXES • Research • Business • Education • Policy Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Department of Civil Engineering and Arup Reservoir team • Key areas of interest include: • Physical models vs CFD models • Combining 3D design software and CFD modelling • Modelling flow over earth embankments and movement of floating debris • Mutual benefits: • Progress industry knowledge • Show commercial use of research • Provide projects for students Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Research & Innovation Support Conference Organisation and process ANNEXES • Research • Business • Education • Policy Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Lessons learned…
Research & Innovation Support Conference Research & Innovation Support Conference The Bad • Process • Communication • Capacity issues The Good • People • Common values and aspirations Building Successful Strategic Partnerships
Research & Innovation Support Conference Thank you Rachel Sandham, Associate Ove Arup and Partners Ltd
Research & Innovation Support Conference Lesley PatrickDARE CollaborationOpera North
“…an exemplar of visionary and far-reaching collaboration…” Mission Models Money
How it works… welcome to the kitchen
“Through DARE, Opera North is thinking, acting and engaging in new ways, mixing in new circles, developing new business and increasing profile in a way that could not have been achieved alone.” Richard Mantle General Director Opera North “A successful collaboration is more than a desire to work together, it thrives on common ambition, and it flourishes on a combination of complementary skills which together create a force far greater than the some of the parts” Martin Holmes Marketing Director University of Leeds yijfhdf
“If DARE wasn’t there we’d have to invent it. It was so far-sighted and timely” Dr Matthew Treherne, Director of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute
Research & Innovation Support Conference Katharine CarterMegan ParsonsMarks & Spencer
A LIVING, DYNAMIC PARTNERSHIP Marks & Spencer Katharine Carter, Company Archivist Megan Parsons, Archive Relationship Manager
Over 70,000 Historical Items “The Marks and Spencer Corporate Archive has the potential to be world-class... It is perhaps the most important corporate archive of any UK retailer and ranks among the most academically valuable I have seen” Professor Scott, University of Reading
Creating Impact Developing and Maintaining the Impact of Archives Ensuring Research has Economic and Societal Impact Iconic Spencer Bear: Then...... And Now!
M&S Company Archive: Activity • Relationship with Special Collections • PhD Students: ‘Social History of Food’ and ‘Energy Consumption & Consumer Behaviour’. • Chair in Business History, Faculty of Arts • Over 700 new scholars introduced to collection across Ethics & CSR; Advertising; Language; Design
A partnership between a leading research-intensive university and a FTSE 100 business ... driving innovation, generating increased impact within the business and across the research agenda.
Research Theme: Business Challenges • Functional Packaging & Waste Reduction • Real-time Stock Inventory • Improved Refrigeration Efficiency • Sustainable Animal Food Strategy • Factory Cleaning Technology • Embedding Understanding/ Building Leadership Capability
Themes contd Employability • Business-wide Internships • Early Career Researchers • International Opportunities Culture • Cultural Arena - Artists in Residence Program • Exchange of Best Practice e.g. Customer Service, Student Education program
Contact details: Katharine Carter: katharine.carter@marks-and-spencer.com Megan Parsons: megan.parsons@marks-and-spencer.com