Working across the School of Chemistry to deliver impactful research
Mission Statement
The BPU provides innovation and impact support to the School of Chemistry. We strive to:
- Identify and nurture impact opportunities from cutting-edge research themes
- Expand our engagement with local and regional companies to support the high growth cluster of businesses using chemistry
- Build on our expertise in public engagement and our Centre for Sustainable Chemistry
- Increase our interaction with policy makers to influence government/industrial strategy
Innovation Training
Business, knowledge transfer and entrepreneurial skills
Find out more
RKE Support
Support for research and knowledge exchange
Find out more
Spin-out Companies
Companies formed by the School & the BPU
Find out more
Facilitating Impact
The flow diagram below outlines how BPU facilitates impact:
RKE support for the School of Chemistry Research Themes
A key objective of the BPU is to provide dedicated support to the Research Themes identifying funding opportunities and industry links, establishing a healthy pipeline of impact activity at various stages of maturity and delivering impacts at local, regional, national and international scale.
The School of Chemistry Research Themes are supported by the following BPU team members:
- Physical, Theoretical and Computational: Dr. Harry Taylor and Harriet Hodgkins
- Inorganic and Materials: Prof. Trevor Farren and Lucy Silvey
- Organic and Biological: Dr. Harry Taylor and Dr. Tom Ward
Impact Audits
The BPU regularly conducts impact audits of research within the School and has, to-date, identified >100 impact opportunities in varying stages of development.
Leveraging input from industrial stakeholders, we ensure our research outputs are aligned to key societal and industry challenges.
Completing impact audits with academic staff also serves as an important opportunity for the BPU to engage with and support academics to highlight potential funding opportunities, commercialisation routes and knowledge exchange programmes which may benefit them.
The information that you provide in this form will be held in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2018. Your personal data will be collected and processed for the purpose of allowing you to contact the Business Partnership Unit. Your contact details will be used to respond to you.
Access a full Privacy Statement