Applied Knowledge Exchange

Tailored business solutions

If your organisation faces a problem, get in touch with the Applied Knowledge Exchange and we will provide you with access to Glasgow Caledonian University's high-quality, professional services, including institutes and centres of expertise for collaborative and contract research opportunities.

We can also help you access specialised instrumentation and unique equipment such as our UKAS accredited Food Laboratory, our Eye Clinic, and our Caledonian Environment Centre.

Working in partnership with the private and public sector

We support Glasgow Caledonian University’s research, consultancy and business development activities, and we work closely with academic experts in Glasgow Caledonian University's schools and Research Institutes to help develop applied research activity.

• At Glasgow Caledonian University, we are harnessing applied research to address local, national and international challenges
  
• World-leading and internationally excellent research in Health and Life Sciences, the Built and Natural Environment and Engineering
  
• Facilitating collaborative research and commercial projects
  
• Working with Charities, Research Councils, Scottish Government and Knowledge Transfer Partners
  
• European and internationally funded initiatives
  
• Leading the way in Social Enterprise development
  

The University has a long tradition of conducting research that is economically and socially relevant, applying new knowledge to problems of global significance in areas such as health, the environment and economic development. Glasgow Caledonian University is a leading partner in KickStart (Key Initiatives in the Commercialisation of Knowledge), a EuropeAid ALFA project involving a consortium of nine universities from Europe and Latin America designed to share and develop ideas, knowledge and learning.

Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Intellectual Capital, Work and Well-being

Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), Scotland and Hanken School of Economics, Finland are identifying how Intellectual Capital (IC) impacts upon work and well-being, and how IC may be promoted through workplace policies.

INTERREG IVA ‘Success Through Succession’

A three-year project will work with SMEs across 3 regions (West of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland) to develop a robust approach to addressing the challenges faced by business owners and their families during family business succession.

Fundamental to our research is our belief in the importance of internationally recognised excellence as the basis both for our teaching and for partnerships with end-users in the UK and internationally. Glasgow Caledonian is proud therefore that, in the RAE2008, more than three quarters of the research we submitted was judged to be of international quality.

Rehabilitative Health Sciences has been highlighted as the top research group in the whole UK, ahead of long-established strong departments elsewhere and with 60% of its work judged to be internationally excellent or world leading.

The Built and Natural Environment has been placed as the top department for research in Scotland and in the top quartile in the UK, with 60% of its research internationally excellent or world-leading.

These outstanding performances are backed by international research profiles, including world class outputs, across a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from Education, History, Public Policy and Media and Communications to Biomedical Sciences, Vision Sciences and High Voltage Engineering.

Take at look at the following video about our High Voltage Research Group, housed in the School of Engineering and Computing.