Engaged with Industry
The Department has strong links with industry and work collaboratively in a number of different ways. We collaborate with key UK and global industry (e.g. Google, Diageo, NHS, Ministry of Defence, Scottish Water, Scottish Power) through a broad range of mechanisms. Our research, consultancy and industrial services help with technology development while our CPD and internships support staff training and graduate recruitment.
We're always keen to develop new partnerships, so if you would like to work with us, please contact Dr Matthew Revie, Director of Knowledge Exchange for the Department.
Applied 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.
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. In addition to the formal classes on offer we can also tailor a specialism of the department to your organisation.
Risk Consortium
The Department of Management Science hosts and facilitates the Risk Consortium. The Risk Consortium was established to:
- Share industry problems, solutions and cutting-edge techniques for quantitative risk analysis and reliability modelling.
- Develop and apply innovative statistical and OR methods to support risk-informed decision making.
- Bridge the gap between research and industry applications
Members of the Risk Consortium include EDF Energy, Scottish Water, General Electric, Doosan Babcock and Scottish Power.
Engaging with Students
The success of our Masters classes is underpinned by the fact we expect our students to work on and solve real business issues. Students work on short projects for companies throughout the year as part of their learning. This is followed up by a summer project where students spend three months working with organisations from all sector types where they deliver a piece of consultancy work. Companies to participate recently include Tesco Bank, the Scottish Government, dstl, SIMUL8, AMEY, and M&Co. Finally, every year in January, students from our MSc courses spend three weeks with external organisations. Find out more details on our apprenticeship scheme.
