Programme & industry partnership
Contribute professional insight, curriculum feedback, practitioner sessions, project briefs and structured mentoring.
Partnerships
Better questions.
Stronger connections.
Work with Acedex to connect knowledge, industry insight and enterprise with the challenges that matter in your field.
Many ways to contribute.
A strong partnership starts with shared purpose, clear responsibilities and a useful contribution from both sides.
Research & innovation
Develop a research question, test a method or explore the application of new knowledge through an agreed project.
Enterprise collaboration
Work with a departmental enterprise on a well-defined prototype, analysis or service that supports supervised learning.
Academic & community connection
Explore institutional collaboration, local learning support or community projects within a clear quality and responsibility framework.
Start with a meaningful challenge.
Tell us what you are trying to understand, improve or create.
We consider how a proposed collaboration fits the university’s academic priorities, what students or researchers can contribute, and what support is needed to deliver it responsibly.
- The organisation and the field it works in
- The problem, opportunity or research question
- The expertise and resources you can contribute
- A realistic scope, timeline and desired outcome
From first conversation to shared work.
Explore fit
Discuss the purpose, academic relevance and potential contribution.
Define the work
Agree scope, responsibilities, resources, student involvement and measures of value.
Put terms in place
Address quality, confidentiality, ownership, safeguarding and any financial arrangements.
Deliver & review
Work together with named contacts, regular feedback and a review of outcomes.