18 | RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE
Research
NOTEWORTHY INITIATIVES IN 2010/11 INCLUDE: The university’s involvement in the Eden Demonstration Test Catchment project as part of a research consortium led by Lancaster University, which uses the Newton Rigg campus, near Penrith, Cumbria and works with the local rural communities to trial agricultural pollution control measures.
The university secured an RDPE funded project on the impacts of subsidy reform on upland farming and an ERDF funded project where we would act as the ‘knowledge base’ for a large ‘Cumbria Cohesion’ project on energy saving in social housing in Cumbria.
During the summer the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing received notification of a successful €690k project to develop postgraduate programmes in public health and social services with universities in Moldova, Georgia and Armenia. The university was one of only six UK universities to receive European Tempus funding, and one of 64 successful projects across the European Union.
The university ran a conference on sonographer-led contrast enhanced ultrasound on the Lancaster campus funded by Bracco, an Italian contrast agent firm. This is a cutting-edge technique which obviates the need for MRI or CT contrast agents which are toxic.
The university has also secured a contract from the UK Border Agency for developing a Stilwell-based learning package for staff involved in the care of refugees and asylum seekers who have been the victims of abuse and torture.
Members of staff are working on the KnowHow 2 research project linking Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Herriot Watt Scottish College of Textiles. The project is European funded and looks at knowledge transfer implementing curriculum design and innovation within drawing and textile courses at levels 4 and 5.
Enterprise
NOTEWORTHY INITIATIVES IN 2010/11 INCLUDE: All targets have been exceeded in the ‘Get Qualified 2’ enterprise project supporting over 1700 different coach qualifications across Lancashire and Cumbria with a resultant increased participation in sport of over 33,000 people through an additional 55,000 coaching hours.
The Collaborative Tempus Project with the Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia commenced officially in February 2011. This 36-month project aims to establish a range of linked but locally and regionally relevant masters programmes for professionals working in public health and social services sectors.
The Faculty of Health and Wellbeing’s Enterprise Manager and Director of Sport are developing strategies to enhance clinic provision on and off the university’s campuses. This has included the university’s sport and exercise therapy and complementary therapy degree
students providing treatment at a new health and exercise clinic at our campus in Carlisle.
The University Certificate in Stroke Care is an innovative programme funded through the Cumbria and Lancashire Stroke Network and is a bespoke course developed and mapped to the stroke clinical competencies. The programme has been commended for its learning, teaching and assessment approach and due to the success of the first two cohorts, the university has been asked to bid to the Stroke Network for further funding.
The final cohort to the successful LEAD project course started in 2010/11 and the university has also recruited the first cohort of 22 students to the Aspiring Leaders Programme in association with Brathay outdoor education centre, with further cohorts planned for the next two years.
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