East Midlands Knowledge Network: Routes To University Expertise

 

Freshcut Foods Limited

Performance Management

The aim of the project is the analysis, design and development of integrated systems to deliver the tools and procedures to plan and control production, enhance customer service and improve production performance.

Critical to the success of the company is its ability to service the customer’s changing daily needs in a controlled and cost effective manner and to service the customer by minimising business interruption at best value. The key challenge that Freshcut Foods faces is efficiently achieving growing demands for fast response and high delivery performance as the company grows. With growth comes increased complexity and the associated waste. Freshcut’s existing planning control systems were inadequate and there was a need for the company to introduce new planning and control systems to address these issues.

The company identified a requirement to develop an integrated planning and control system capable of supporting the immediate and longer-term requirements of the business.

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National Centre for Citizenship and the Law, Greens Mill and Science Centre

Multimedia

Historical reconstruction via modelling and digital animation techniques for the wider dissemination of both places and locales in the Galleries of Justice which are inaccessible to the general public, contextualising artefacts alongside the creation of atmospheres and narratives of the period relevant to the social history of the places.

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Nottingham City Community Educational Psychology Service

Public Services Management

The aim of the project is to provide University expertise to enable the CEPS and the Local Authority to develop a research strategy and to build action research capacity. The project will work with a number of Special Schools and parents to enable them to develop action research projects located within a new-build Centre of Excellence (special educational needs) project funded by the City Local Authority. In addition, the project aims to support the development of the Communication for Inclusion Research Unit (CIRU), led by NTU Psychology and Nottingham City CEPS, which focuses on the needs of children (and adults) with communication disabilities.

The project came about as a result of a relatively long-standing professional and research based relationship among the founding members of CIRU which led them to develop the unit.

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Nova Scotia Gaming Company

Responsible Gambling Services

This project provided an empirical assessment of centralised gaming models using a Dephi study. The aim was to see if a centralised gaming model is a more socially responsible model for the distribution of gaming products.

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Skylight Media Ltd

Performance Management

Skylight Media manage the client internet sites with a business model that includes commission based pricing (rather than a single fee). Ongoing improvements are therefore important to maximise sales potential. The aim of the SIS project is to enable Skylight Media to develop systems which increase the speed and efficiency of their website production processes.

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Whatton Prison

Public Services Management

This SIS project was led by Dr Belinda Winder, School of Social Sciences. The partner was Whatton Prison. The project arose after Whatton Prison contacted Dr Winder to see if she would be interested in having the Deputy Governor come and give a Careers talk for final-year students. At the talk, the Deputy Governor and Dr Winder discussed the expansion plans of Whatton Prison and the implications of the expansion. The Deputy Governor expressed an interest in exploring the implications of the planned expansion – as well as supporting research into their sex offender treatment programmes. The SIS bid was developed in order to start to build collaborative links between the University and Whatton prison.

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