International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick
Who We Are
The collaboration fulfils Birmingham Science City objectives to stimulate growth in both research capacity and quality to underpin priority aspects of the regional economy, and to ensure the flow and transfer of knowledge and technology for economic benefit.
Such an approach is also consistent with a national strategy to build world-class centres of research excellence to underpin the development of the knowledge based economy and will promote significantly enhanced collaboration between universities and business as an important route to increasing economic benefit.
Business Engagement Managers
The Universities of Warwick and Birmingham have announced the appointment of six Business Engagement Managers to work on the Science City Research Alliance projects.
Mike Ahearne, Debbie Girdlestone and Karl West, who are based at Warwick, and Rubina Mian and Richard Simpson (based at Birmingham), will promote the research programmes throughout the region and provide direct help to businesses, allowing them exclusive access to specialized state-of-the-art scientific equipment and to the universities’ research expertise. This direct contact with the Universities and access to groundbreaking equipment will enable companies to take forward the research and translate it into commercial outputs or use it to optimize their manufacturing processes.
The Business Engagement Managers are as follows:
Mike Ahearne Energy Futures Project “Energy Efficiency and Demand Reduction”
m.ahearne@warwick.ac.uk
Debbie Girdlestone – Translational Medicine 1 “Clinical Research Trials and Infrastructure Platform”
d.girdlestone@warwick.ac.uk
Karl West – Advanced Materials 2 “Innovative uses for Advanced Materials in the Modern World”
k.s.west@warwick.ac.uk
Rubina Mian – Translational Medicine 2 “Experimental Medicine Network of Excellence”
r.mian@bham.ac.uk
Richard Simpson – Advanced Materials 1 “Creating and Characterising Next Generation Materials”
r.simpson.1@bham.ac.uk
Further information can also be obtained by contacting businessteam@bham.ac.uk
