Middlesex University


Financial Statements 2015/16


Research and business Knowledge Transfer


Knowledge transfer (KT) activities focus on the ways in which the work that takes place inside a higher education institution can benefit those outside of it. Aggregate income in 2015/16 was £10.7m confirming the value of the work to Middlesex University and the wider community. Middlesex has been able to grow KT income since the recession to an extent sufficient to warrant a significant increase in HEFCE’s allocation of Higher Education Innovations Fund (HEIF) funding by a little under 50%. What may not be appreciated just from these figures, though, is the capacity of KT work to enable Middlesex directly to impact social and economic life in the UK.


In contract research new projects in 2015/16 included the ‘NuTec SMART HOMES: Building constRuctIon model for aCtive environmentS’ project (BRICS) (Science & Technology, value £155k), the development of an NHS FGM Training Strategy for NHS England (Health & Education, £39k) and Piloting the Q Pack in the Scottish Fostering Service – Phase 3 FOR Action for Children (Law, £5k). These are just three examples of activities, large and small, all contributing to our impact on practice through commissioned research. CPD activities developed at Middlesex were intended directly to transform practice, such as Social Worker training for London Borough of Barnet, the VASS 2016 CPD programme (in association with MASS Consultants), Guernsey NMC programmes, and a Theatre Arts Exchange project connected with Edinburgh Festival Fringe.


Direct delivery of training events demonstrated the capability of our staff to respond to specific training needs, often at short notice, and with the added benefit of enhancing the reputation of the University and drawing new partners into the orbit of the University. Examples of such events included CLCH Resuscitation training, a summer dance intensive workshop, Moving and Handling training for The Whittingdon Hospital, Emergency Nurse Practitioner training, and health care training at HMYOI Feltham for Care UK. Conferences, too, helped to cement Middlesex’s reputation as an institution able to help the transfer of knowledge directly to the domain of practice – as examples from areas as diverse as Psychology, Criminology &


Sociology, Marketing, Branding and Tourism, Performing Arts, Adult Child and Midwifery practice, Business Management and Organisation Studies, Mental Health, Social Work, and Integrative Medicine all testified this year.


Recent patents include those for the use of electrical impedance tomography with nanoparticles to scan for tumours, a technique for rendering images inside the body using sensors, and technology to enable the analysis of neonatal lung function. Much of this intellectual property (IP) is in development for commercialisation with industrial partners, who value Middlesex’s willingness to work with them on the difficult task of translating science into feasible products for the market. IP, of course, doesn’t come in the form of patents alone, and much of the IP we develop at Middlesex comes in the form of design rights secured, image rights (which we successfully licence), and other forms of so-called attested rights.


Our current performance and the lively level of engagement by all staff in our KT activities – from partnerships with orchestras and theatre groups, to R&D partnerships with companies to develop new technology, to contract research that is shaping government policy – confirms that the University remains an engaged university, seeking to benefit those outside its walls by connecting our research and ‘know how’ with wider needs in the society it serves.


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