Expertise, consulting and commission research for business
Find out how we can help you grow your organisation by connecting you with our people and their cutting edge expertise.
How we can help you
- Consulting services for business.
- Large scale research contracts.
- Consultancy services tailored to entrepreneurs and SMEs.
About our expertise
We can undertake research to overcome a complex technical challenge, or on a consultancy basis, help to apply the latest knowledge to your business.
We have a strong track record of working with a range of partners, including multi-national businesses and small and medium-sized enterprises. Our regular collaborations with local government, industry associations and private investors ensure that our expertise is grounded in today’s challenges. We collaborate with organisations across the spectrum enabling people to flourish in sustainable ways.
Find out more about our expertise
See examples of how we collaborate below. We can tailor our support to suit your business needs.
- Life Sciences and Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Our experts from the School of Life Sciences and Brighton and Sussex Medical School undertake research in our state-of-the-art Medical Research Building. Our experts in Neuroscience collaborate with pharmaceutical firms and health providers to tackle addiction, mental health and dementia. Our Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre (CISC) is an interdisciplinary research and imaging facility. If you partner with us, you will have access to a 3T MRI scanner as well as the Centre’s other testing facilities, seminar rooms and draw upon a dynamic range of researchers.
- Media, Arts and Humanities
Academics working in the Media, Arts and Humanities have developed partnerships with major national organisations such as Shakespeare’s Globe and the RSC, the Wellcome Trust, British Museum, the National Poetry Library, the Photographers’ Gallery, and The Freud Museum and the V&A. Two faculty members contributed expertise to the blockbuster (and Covid delayed) ‘Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser’ exhibition.
- Psychology
Our psychologists offer consultancy and training in neuromarketing, safety, human resources and interviewing training as well as user-centred design. Large events companies have benefited from our crowd research and our academics have helped many international businesses, professional sports and military teams transform their performance.
- Quantum Science
Quantum Science offers genuine game changing opportunities for business. Academics from Neuroscience, Engineering, Informatics, Life Sciences, Medicine and Psychology collaborate with businesses to link enabling and foundational science with quantum device development, realising applications that range in scope from human brain activity mapping to next generation touch screens, and from microscopic imaging of molecular motors to quantum radar.
- 快猫视频 Business School
The 快猫视频 Business School have strengths across the ‘traditional’ business disciplines – including accounting, finance, international business, management, marketing and strategy. It is also renowned for expertise in three interdisciplinary areas: energy, sustainability and innovation.
The Business School operates a , which looks at how technology is changing work. Researchers are developing new rapid recruitment techniques using automated interviews and exploring ways to implement new technologies. Read more about the Business School.
Consultancy services for business
Our consultancy services provide dedicated expertise, whether you need to solve a complex technical challenge affecting the efficiency of your firm’s production processes or develop new policies and systems.
Employing an academic consultant will bring expert knowledge, and provide an expert voice, to your organisation. As a University, we offer independence and freedom from commercial conflicts.
We can put you in touch with the best suited academic – or assemble a team to combine expertise – to solve your business challenge. See the packages we offer to businesses below.
- Off-the-shelf offers
Experts at the Data Intensive Science Centre at the University have designed two off-the-shelf offers for businesses:
- a one-day or half-day machine learning canvas session to provide direct advice to a business and develop a plan for a business's overall data and machine learning needs
- a one-day brainstorming workshop to address data challenges in a team environment on campus or at company site (as preferred).
- Bespoke offers
Our academics undertake research to push the boundaries of knowledge and regularly support businesses on a consultancy arrangement. Recent bespoke consulting assignments for business include:
- marketing advice, including new product and service development and branding for a young company, which does not yet have its own marketing department
- landslide field surveys in order to identify any patterns of movement that may impact operations at a holiday park
- technical due diligence for an investment company appraising a software company
- input on a firm’s pharmaceutical drug discovery and development programme
- expert advice concerning formulation and likely debonding properties of adhesive/nano particle mixes for a firm’s new manufacturing processes
- support to a firm as it develops its use of SaaS in response to suggestions from their stakeholders
- geological advice for ground works for High Speed Rail – phase two
- technical advice to a firm setting up an e-market place for business-to-business trading of 'end-of-life' products that may have value in other supply chains.
Large scale research contracts
We have world-class research capabilities so we can partner with you to perform your research and development (R&D). If y