Contract Research and Consultancy

These pages provide advice and information on the services that Research & Knowledge Transfer offer to support University staff wishing to undertake research or consultancy projects with external organisations. Please contact us as soon as possible if you are thinking of carrying out work with these types of organisation, even if it is in a preliminary stage, to get advice on how to move your project forward.

If you are a business and would like to find out more about how you can work with the University please visit our Business pages.

Contract Research or Consultancy?

Work of this nature falls into two categories which are:

• Contract Research
• Consultancy

It is Research & Knowledge Transfer’s responsibility to ensure that your project is correctly classified as either Contract Research or Consultancy. This is to ensure that the University’s charitable status is protected. Research & Knowledge Transfer uses a simple Decision Support Tool to guide this decision.

To discuss this further please do get in touch or see our Contract Research FAQs or Consultancy FAQs.

You should also be aware of the University's Finance Handbook, which you can see online here.

Contact the Contract Research and Consultancy team

We are always happy to talk with you to discuss your project and options.