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Research and Commercial Services

RCS provides a range of professional services aimed at academic staff as well as external organisations.


The main activities of RCS are to:

  • Guide our academic staff through the complex process of applying for EU and other international research funding and support the projects once they are awarded.
       
  • Provide ‘intelligence’ on new research directions and work to match the interests of external funding bodies with the research interests of our academics.
       
  • Develop, bid for, and manage complex multi-party projects such as the recent Manufacturing Technology Centre and the Science City Research Alliance.
      
  • Develop and maintain business partnerships and seek to apply our research knowledge commercially where possible.
      
  • Promote our research and academic experts to international television and radio

For general enquiries, please contact:

Ms Lesley Hewitt
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3859
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 7151
Email: click here

If you have a more specific enquiry, please use about us link to the left to find out who can help you, or Lesley can direct you.
   

Our address is:

Institute of Research and Development
Birmingham Research Park
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, UK
    

Map and Directions:

The Institute of Research and Development is the Building B6 (blue zone) on the Edgbaston Campus Map at: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/contact/directions/index.aspx