Energy
Collaborative research and consultancy
Energy Lancaster brings together Lancaster’s world leading expertise in a wide range of energy related areas including:
- Energy policy
- Nuclear energy
- Carbon management
- Water renewable
- Photovoltaics & photocatalysis
- e-Energy
- Transport & transport usage
- Energy economics
By combining cutting edge research in these areas with expertise across Science and Technology and beyond, Energy Lancaster is working in partnership global organisations and contributing to the development and management of a secure and sustainable future for the UK’s energy needs.
Examples of Collaborative Work
- Wave energy generation technology
- Tidal device development
- Low head hydro research
- Fluid machinery
- Environmental impact assessments
- Virtual prototyping and Rapid Manufacture
- Biofuels plant design projects
- Energy in transport, life cycle assessment research
- Energy policy and efficiency projects
- Carbon management, including footprinting, research
- Health impacts of energy from waste projects
Co-location
Energy related businesses can co-locate alongside over 300 environmental researchers from disciplines across the natural and applied sciences, humanities, management sciences and engineering in the Lancaster Environment Centre and InfoLab21.
Renting offices alongside us enables faster business growth by providing easier access to our research, knowledge, state of the art laboratories, clean rooms, workshops and specialist instruments. In particular we are interested in a wide range of research partnerships from across the environmental sector. Companies can access these resources for research, new product development, managing environmental impacts, developing environmental CSR programmes and responding to legislative or consumer pressures.
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Student Placements
We evaluate the needs of each business and match these to the appropriate student resource across Science and Technology.
Within LEC we place over 30 postgraduate students each year into a wide range of businesses to work on technology-based projects and to improve resource use efficiency.
Training
There are a range of events, workshops and seminars covering different aspects of energy.
Product Development and IPR
We have the benefit of being able to tap into the University’s experienced IPR experts to ensure that for every partnership we enter into, any IPR are clearly agreed amongst all parties involved.
Contact
Dr Ian Nickson
Business Partnerships Manager
+44 (0)1524 594 259
www.energy.lancs.ac.uk
As the Business Partnerships Manger for Energy Lancaster my specific remit is to develop and maintain relationships with businesses and other science users via collaborative research partnerships, the co-location of businesses, a range of student-based partnerships, professional training and the commercialisation of IPR.
We have ongoing relationships with a broad range of industrial partners including BAE Systems, BP, Centrica, DEFRA, Yorkshire Water, Fiat, IBM, E-on, Research Councils UK Energy and Pilkington.
We have a wide range of services and routes to collaboration and our experienced team aim to helping each business find the specific expertise and solutions they need. As part of a wide multidisciplinary team, we can also draw on additional support from each theme. Please contact me for more information.