Applied Knowledge Exchange

Tailored business solutions

If your organisation faces a problem, get in touch. We'll account manage a solution for you by pulling together a cross-functional team of experts from within our six schools and our Centres of Expertise.

These experts provide you with access to a range of Glasgow Caledonian University's high-quality, professional services, including institutes and centres of expertise for collaborative and contract research opportunities and access to specialised instrumentation and equipment such as our UKAS accredited Food Laboratory, our Eye Clinic, and our Caledonian Environment Centre.

The Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences offers state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities and a friendly working environment, all of which helps to promote our thriving research culture. 

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.

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.

Our strategic commitment since 2001 to focus on research areas that have a particular application to current needs has been especially successful in two fields:

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.

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.

But don't take our word for it. Learn how our first-class solutions have successfully transformed processes for our numerous, high-profile clients, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs) who received funding and business advice.

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