Consortium Members
Goldsmiths, Universityof London, has an international reputation for creativity and innovation. Its Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture is the first multidisciplinary research centre of its kind in the world, facilitating collaborative research across computing, music, visual arts, psychology, culture and other areas.
London Metropolitan University has the largest concentration of HE expertise in financial services in London. It runs the London Financial Academy at Moorgate and Canary Wharf. It also operates a digital manufacturing centre and is renowned for the application of digital media to design and manufacturing in furniture-making, silver and goldsmithing and jewellery-making.
Queen Mary, University of London is one of the UK’s leading research-focused higher education institutions and is ranked 11th in the UK according to the Guardian analysis of the 2008 RAE Exercise. Amongst the largest of the colleges of the University of London, Queen Mary’s 3,000 staff deliver world class research across 21 academic departments and institutes, within three sectors: Science and Engineering; Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws; and the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Ravensbourne, which moves in 2010 to purpose-built premises on Greenwich Peninsula, has a national reputation among the creative industries for its focus on the creative exploitation of new technologies and quality of its graduates, courses and facilities. It has an ongoing commitment to developing students’ enterprise talents.
Rose Bruford College provides distinctive training in theatre craft and performance skills, and houses fully equipped workshops, wardrobe facilities, sound show control and digital effects suites. Rose Bruford is unique as it is the only higher education institution providing the complete range of vocational training and education for the theatre and its related industries.
Trinity Laban is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in the professional training of musicians and contemporary dancers and one of the foremost providers of cultural events and opportunities in the London Thames Gateway. It offers public performance programmes at its renowned venues, Blackheath Halls and the Laban Theatre.
The services LSBU provides to its customers are derived from a blend of its talented people, and innovative ideas and solutions to problems. The range of services offered covers: research, training, consultancy, knowledge transfer schemes like KTP, and student placements and projects.
UEL is one of the UK’s most diverse and fastest growing universities. As an expanding University at the heart of Europe’s largest regeneration zone we play an integral role in local development providing the best possible environment for teaching and learning, research, enterprise, graduate employment and knowledge transfer..
Following a £170 million investment programme over the last three years, we have successfully transformed our main campuses at Docklands (London’s first new campus for 50 years, short-listed for Building of the Year 2001) and Stratford and our new facilities at the Barking Learning Centre, creating excellent learning and working environments for our business clients, students and community partners. Through this we aim to inspire future generations with an enthusiasm for new ideas, new enterprise and new learning.
The University of Greenwich is home to internationally leading researchers who are applying expertise in modelling and simulation across challenges such as post-9/11 building design, planning Beijing’s Olympic stadia, or preserving the Cutty Sark for future generations. The university’s Medway campus houses the Natural Resources Institute, an internationally recognised multidisciplinary centre for research, consultancy and education for the management of natural and human resources.
Associate Partners
The WestFocus Centre for Knowledge Exchange coordinates the successful government-funded collaborative project comprising 7 universities based in South and West London, and the Thames Valley. WestFocus works with businesses, students, and the academic community to foster innovation and entrepreneurship, promote student and graduate employment, and enhance the regional and national economies.
KnowledgeLondon is a good practice network for knowledge transfer professionals. Funded by the London Development Agency, the project aims to help knowledge transfer practitioners from across London’s knowledge base boost their professional skills and enhance their networks.
The London Thames Gateway is an area represented by 11 local authorities on both sides of the river in East London, by eight local universities, the local Learning and Skills Council and the Strategic Health Authority. It is critical to keeping going and growing, because it is the only part of the capital able to sustain the massive scale of growth in jobs and housing required.
