Knowledge Exchange
The department of management science engages in all manner of Knowledge Exchange (KE) with a wide range of external stakeholders. KE interactions include:
Continual Personal Development (CPD)
The teaching available in the department of Management Science is of huge value to many organisations regardless of size or sector, for more details of the CPD courses we deliver please click here. In addition to the formal classes on offer we can also tailor a specialism of the department to your organisation, thus we can run best practice workshops on all of the department’s competencies including Performance Measurement, Operations, Optimisation, Spreadsheet Modelling, Project Delay and Disruption, Strategy Making and Risk and Reliability to name a few.
Consultancy
The skillset of our academic staff is available to external organisations to diagnose and resolve a plethora of business and management issues. The competencies embedded in the department lend themselves in particular to Risk and Reliability, Operational Efficiency Improvements, Optimisation, Data Analysis, Project Delay and Disruption, Performance Measurement, Simulation and Strategic Options Development Analysis (SODA).
Student Consultancy
The success of our Masters classes is underpinned by the fact we expect our students to work on and solve real business issues. Companies to participate recently include Tesco Bank, the Scottish Government, SIMUL8, AMEY, M&Co and the NHS. If you would like your organisation to participate please click here to contact a relevant member of the department.
Student Dissertations
Every summer our students spend 3 months working with organisations from all sector types where they deliver a piece of consultancy work. Organisations who have recently participated include Balfour Beatty, National Australia Group, Barclays Bank and the NHS.
Student Placements
Every year in January, students from our MSc courses spend 3 weeks with external organisations, for more details on our Apprenticeship Scheme please click here.
Research
As a Business School, our laboratory is almost any organisation regardless of size; we have worked with all manner of enterprises from sole traders to multi-nationals in a range of all sectors. We believe the quality and value of our academic output is a function of the relationships we maintain with our external partners. In the last few years we have conducted research and delivered papers in partnership with local, national and international organisations.
Guest Lectures
We passionately believe that the learning delivered to students is dramatically enhanced by involving external organisations, in the last 6 months we have had representatives from a wide range of organisations including the Scottish Government, British Airways, PA Consulting, M&Co, Metis Partners and SIMUL8 deliver presentations to our students.
