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Supporting your business ambitions
Supporting your business ambitions
Upgrade your employees’ skills
Discover how the University of Wolverhampton can help your business to upskill and train your workforce through programmes including apprenticeships, CPD and short courses.
• Apprenticeships
• Postgraduate study
• Part-time and online distance learning
• Business, management and leadership
Support services
Find out how we can support your business needs with student and graduate placements, and how our academic expertise and knowledge can support your business with research and development, assist with innovation, and provide advice and support through funded schemes.
• Student and graduate recruitment
• Research and development support
Specialist advice and support
• The National Brownfield Institute
• Elite Centre for Manufacturing Skills
• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
A home for your business
Conference and event space
Supporting your business ambitions
Understanding how a university can support your business can be a puzzle – but we’re here to help you put the pieces together.
At the University of Wolverhampton, we aim to develop lasting relationships with businesses of all kinds and to help them grow and prosper, and successfully support companies locally, nationally and internationally.
We recognise that we have a key role to play in the social and economic prosperity of the region and are a major resource for the region’s business community.
To develop a workforce that meet current and future needs organisations to embrace lifelong learning. This is where we can help. Through our continued links with industry, we aim to contribute to a stronger, more knowledgeable and resilient business community – providing opportunities for all.
Our dedicated business engagement team can support your organisation to identify potential problems and, with our expertise, develop appropriate real-world solutions with impact through our world-leading applied research, knowledge exchange activities, academic expertise and graduate talent pool.
For more information on how we can support your business, contact the business engagement team at: businesslink@wlv.ac.uk
Upgrade your employees’ skills
Upgrade your employees’ skills
Apprenticeships
Postgraduate study
Part-time and online distance learning
Business, management and leadership
Developing your workforce is the best way to equip your business to successfully face the future. By offering development opportunities, your workforce will also feel committed and motivated, leading to increased productivity and morale, and reduced recruitment and absence costs within your business.
At the University of Wolverhampton, we can help your business to develop the skills required to succeed through a variety of tried-and-tested options.
Apprenticeships
Whether you’re looking to upskill employees or attract new talent, you can bring real benefits into your business with our higher and degree apprenticeships, which offer an integrated model of university-based study and work-based experience.
Our WLV Apprenticeships provides opportunities for budding apprentices to develop desirable skill sets in a real working environment. We work with employers and local
authorities including; Telford & Wrekin, Dudley, Walsall, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Sandwell Councils, public and private health care providers such as the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Walsall NHS Trust and Priory Group as well as private sector organisations, including Balfour Beatty, Nant and Bentley.
For more information or guidance on how the WLV Apprenticeships can help, email: apprenticeshiphub@wlv.ac.uk
Postgraduate study at the University of Wolverhampton
Whether you’re looking to retrain your staff or increase your business expertise, a postgraduate qualification with the University of Wolverhampton can open the door to many new opportunities.
At the University of Wolverhampton we focus on developing our postgraduate students’ leadership skills and knowledge.
Our postgraduate study options include full-time and part-time courses, conversion courses, 100% online courses and accredited CPD courses.
Take a look at our postgraduate courses and start your journey with us today! wlv.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate
Part-time study and online distance learning
Part-time study is a flexible and cost-effective way to realise your potential, providing an opportunity to do a degree course that fits in around your lifestyle. You can build upon existing skills, head in a new direction, or pursue your interests.
For businesses, part-time study allows employees to upskill and complete a university course alongside work commitments.
Our part-time courses and professional development opportunities, including distance learning study options allow you to:
• fit your studies around work and home commitments
• enhance your employment prospects
• continue earning while you’re learning.
Find out more at: wlv.ac.uk/courses/part-time-study
Business, management, and leadership
University of Wolverhampton Business School has trained thousands of managers regionally, nationally and internationally.
The size, scope and content of our professional programmes can be matched to your organisational needs, whilst providing a progressive framework of learning that allows individuals to develop their management skills over time and in line with their role and experience.
Whether you’re looking to broaden the skills of your middle and senior managers or wish to improve your organisation’s talent management, the Business School can support you. Our programmes are delivered by industry experts, underpinned by world-leading research and cutting-edge management theories.
Blended learning techniques are also adopted to create a hybrid teaching methodology. This comprises traditional classroom-based learning, online technologies and opportunities to apply theory in the workplace, via strategic, work-related projects.
Courses include:
• MSc Digital Marketing Management
• PG Dip / MA Strategic People Management and Human Resources (part-time)
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) certificate and diploma qualifications
Support services from the University
Student and graduate recruitment
The Workplace is our dedicated recruitment team, offering a fast, friendly and FREE vacancy advertising service to employers wishing to recruit our students and graduates. Vacancies advertised on our system can be viewed by more than 20,000 University of Wolverhampton students and graduates who are searching for a range of work opportunities.
Student and graduate placements
Whether you wish to grow your business, but don’t have the resource to do so, have a challenge that needs an innovative solution, or need some extra skills in your organisation; our graduate schemes can deliver valuable skills and resource. Our industry-ready students and graduates can make a real impact on real-life business challenges through short or long-term placements.
Our free online vacancy advertising system offers:
• prospective employees with a wide range of skills and experience.
• an easy way to reach over 20,000 students and graduates of the University of Wolverhampton.
• a convenient and effective avenue to advertise your vacancies.
• opportunities to utilise our expert recruitment staff.
Contact us today to see how we can help solve your recruitment requirements.
Email: theworkplace@wlv.ac.uk or call: 01902 323 400.
Support services from the University
Research and development support
If you have a specific business challenge you’d like help with, or need expert advice and guidance on a business topic, we can help you innovate via consultancy with one of our leading academics. Our academics are practitioners with experience of business, and we are proud to identify those at the forefront of latest developments. This means they are keen to work with you. Your knowledge, plus our expertise, will allow you to innovate and make a noticeable difference to the competitiveness of your business.
We are continually growing our research capability, building on international and local findings and utilising our strengths in a number of research areas. We can help you with your own research and development, leading to new products, services, processes and markets for your business. Our research activities impact positively on business, the environment, society - and of course, our students. The work we are doing helps to advance knowledge and address real-world problems, such as the health of aging populations and sustainable development.
Across the university, a growing number of dedicated research centres cover a variety of research topics: from designing for people with dementia, new discoveries in diabetes, and the latest in cyber security, to the future of off-site construction.
Specialist advice and support
The University of Wolverhampton offers expertise and services in a number of areas to help you to develop your innovative business ideas. We offer a range of fully funded services that companies can tap into to thrive, often at little or no financial outlay.
The National Brownfield Institute (NBI)
The NBI focuses on unlocking brownfield sites for economic use, business engagement, research, policy development and commercial services.
The NBI is a focal point for a world-class brownfield regeneration industry through multi-sector partnership, new skills, innovative technologies, and new policies for remediation and regeneration of brownfield sites whilst promoting sustainability and green economy practises.
Our facilities and services include:
• Direct, fully funded business support locally, regionally and nationally to SMEs.
• Centrally located state of the art venue hire options for events, conference, workshops and seminars.
• Advanced facilities to support businesses engaged in brownfield regeneration.
• Laboratory testing facility; soil and water, organics and inorganics, heavy metalsElectron Microscopy, Transmission and Scanning EM, EDS Chemical analysis.
• Access to hi-tech equipment such as high-resolution 3D scanning and mobile mapping devices, reality capture, 3D videos, photography and Drone surveying.
• Igloo Vision fully immersive, 9m, 360° experience for collaboration, visualisation, scenario building, training, product promotion.
• An immersive 270° space, ideal for project planning, team building and business opportunities.
• Boston Dynamics’ agile robot, Spot, can navigate tough terrain and capture data accurately and safely.
• Innovation and partnership with the construction industry.
• Expert, industry-specific research teams.
• A professional platform to promote projects and products.
The NBI is a working model for brownfield regeneration and new construction techniques that can be implemented regionally and nationally and exported around the world.
Tel: 01902 518532
Email: nbi@wlv.ac.uk www.wlv.ac.uk/nbi
Research centres and institutes
Over the last 20 years, we have invested heavily in growing our research activity and, as a result, have established research centres and inter-disciplinary institutes that are at the heart of our research strategy.
As key generators of research inquiry and much of our outputs, they help to create an environment where scholars, students and our research collaborators have the freedom to explore ideas and make an impact through world-leading research. All of our academic schools have areas of research strength, overseen by our established research centres, many of which work closely with industry on large-scale projects.
Our research centres and institutes are listed below:
Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences
• Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation
• Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research
• Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture
• Institute for Community Research and Development
• Centre for Historical Research
• Law Research Centre
• Management Research Centre
Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing
• Centre for Research in Education and
• Social Transformation
• Centre for Applied and Inclusive Health and Research
• Centre for Psychological Research
• Sport and Physical Activity Research Centre
Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Centre for Engineering Innovation and Research
• Construction Futures Research Centre
• Digital Innovation and Solution Centre
• Research Institute of Healthcare Science
For more details about the University’s Research Centres and Institutes, please visit: wlv.ac.uk/research
• Hire of facilities and rooms for meetings, events, conferences, training etc.
• Manual & Commercial training and short courses
• Material testing and analysis
• Specialist training provision at the National Foundry Training Centre
• State of the art equipment (Labs, Foundry workshops, CAD IT Suite)
P: Springfield HUB: 01902 321678 and National Foundry Training Centre (NFTC): 01902 321955
Email: enquiries@theecms.co.uk
W: theecms.co.uk
Knowledge
Transfer
Partnerships (KTP)
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) aim to help businesses improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology, and skills within the UK knowledge base. Each KTP project recruits a high-calibre graduate, known as an associate, aided by specialist academic support from the University of Wolverhampton to deliver a strategic innovation project. Businesses can take their organisation to the next level by instilling change, developing new products, or revolutionising the marketplace. A Knowledge Transfer Partnership can last between one to three years and is part funded by UKRI through Innovate UK with the support of co-funders. Do you have an idea for your business and want to discuss whether a KTP could help take it forward? If so, please email.
KTP@wlv.ac.uk
Email:KTP@wlv.ac.uk
W: wlv.ac.uk/ktp
The Alumni & Development Team is the first point of contact for students once they have graduated and joined a community of over 150,000 alumni. Connecting with the team could be of benefit to your business in several ways.
Connecting Alumni
Encouraging University of Wolverhampton alumni within your business to stay connected will allow us to explore opportunities for collaboration, in a mutually beneficial manner. The support of alumni can play a significant role in the profile raising of the University, plus enhance the study experience and employability skill development of our students. In return, support will create opportunities for your business to network professionally, enhance its CSR footprint and gain publicity via our stakeholder audiences.
To contact the team please email:alumni@wlv.ac.uk
Sponsorship Opportunities
The University has a broad range of opportunities to show your support for our students, promote your business and make a strong statement on your CSR agenda. Whether you sponsor a room at one of our campuses, enable events like SciFest or the Women in Business Conference, donate a graduation prize to inspire new graduates as they enter the workforce, or put your logo on one of our nationally competitive racing cars, your generosity will make a tangible difference. For more information, email alumni@wlv.ac.uk to explore current projects and exciting, mutually beneficial, corporate packages.
A home for your business
For almost three decades, the University of Wolverhampton Science Park has been a cornerstone in fostering business development within the science, technology, knowledge-based, and creative sectors. Established in 1995, the Science Park has transformed into a vibrant hub of innovation, collaboration, and growth. Positioned at the heart of Wolverhampton, we offer a range of facilities, including office accommodation, workshop spaces, and laboratory areas, creating an ideal environment where businesses can truly thrive.
Our workspaces range from start-up incubation areas to specialised facilities, designed for established organisations. We also provide a range of versatile conference and meeting spaces that can be tailored to meet your specific needs.
Choosing the University of Wolverhampton Science Park as your business home provides access to a myriad of benefits and the prospect of forging collaborative partnerships with us.
Telford
Located in the heart of Shropshire, a region known for its spirit of innovation and achievement, the e-Innovation Centre and the Business and Technology Centre, provide a range of modern business accommodation for growing companies in the technology and creative sectors. The recent addition of a co-working space provides a cost-effective solution to start-up companies wishing to expand their business without incurring vast expenses.
e-innovationcentre.co.uk
btctelford.co.uk
SPARK Business Incubation Centre
SPARK Business Incubation Centre aspires to have a positive impact on its communities’ economic health, generating ethical, sustainable businesses employing local people.
We’re committed to providing enterprising individuals and teams with flexible space options, personalised support and the resources they need to be successful.
Our mission is to be “the home of start-ups” retaining science, creative and tech talent, whilst attracting investment to the region.
Developing new-start businesses from initial innovation through strategic growth, we provide professional leadership development, research and product development as well as access to connections, mentors and vital start-up resources in partnership with the University of Wolverhampton and our many regional support agencies.
Tel: 07813 766796
Business start email: enquiries@sparkspace.co.uk Student enterprise programme enquiries: Unleashed@wlv.ac.uk sparkspace.co.uk
Conference and event space
Elite Centre for Manufacturing Skills
The Elite Centre for Manufacturing Skills (ECMS) offers businesses the opportunity to hire its rooms and facilities at both Springfield Hub and the National Foundry Training Centre in Wolverhampton and Tipton. A range of specialist facilities are available whether you need a meeting room, exhibition space, scientific laboratories, teaching rooms, or an IT suite.
theecms.co.uk
Conference and event space
University of Wolverhampton Science Park
The University of Wolverhampton Science Park offers a range of versatile conference and meeting spaces that can be tailored to meet your specific needs. Resident and non-resident companies can benefit from our venues which offer the ideal backdrop for your events, whether you’re looking for a meeting room, delivering a presentation, or hosting an exhibition.
Email: bookings@wolverhamptonsp.co.uk
