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Leeds Beckett’s contribution to the economy recognised by new national framework

27 September 2022

The impact of Leeds Beckett University’s work with partners across the public and private sector has been recognised in a new national ‘knowledge exchange’ framework.

Research England published its updated Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF2) today, which examines how well English Higher Education Providers exchange knowledge and expertise to make a positive impact on the economy, place, and civic life.

Leeds Beckett University scored in the top category (very high engagement) for its Research Partnerships and Working with Public and Third Sector organisations; and was rated as having high levels of engagement for Working with Business.

Leeds Beckett University offers a wide variety of mentoring services and funded knowledge exchange initiatives for businesses – from Government-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) innovation projects, to delivering the European Social Fund (ESF)-funded Women Empowered through Coaching and Networking (WECAN) project and the Government-funded Help to Grow: Management programme. The University’s research partnerships span areas of world-leading academic expertise – including the Retail Institute, Leeds Sustainability Institute, Obesity Institute and Centre for Dementia Research.

We are extremely proud of our knowledge exchange activity at the university and our new KEF results demonstrate our commitment to sharing our expertise with businesses and our community.

Tomrods and the Small Business Leadership Programme

A still image of Andrew Shakespeare's video interview

Tomrods is a steel service centre. It was founded in 1973 by John Thompson who is still a major shareholder.

Back in April last year when lockdown started, demand was down over 50%. It's been challenging, but we've come out a lot stronger than when we went into the pandemic, but there's still a long way to go.

The leadership programme, when I reviewed it in detail, it seemed to cover every single part of the business process. It provided a foundation for pulling everything together, making it more cohesive instead of fragmented strategy.

One of the major areas for me was the operational efficiency module, and from that, the importance of having the right data collection. We were due to do an hour or two hours of self-learning afterwards, but it wasn't really self-learning. What it was is you were just applying what you'd learnt into your business, so the benefits were there, it wasn't using my time, so it worked extremely well.

Following the leadership programme, we're working with Leeds Beckett University on the MKTP, which is a Management Knowledge Transfer Partnership, which is a link between the university, actually recruit an individual with our involvement, and that individual is embedded into our business.

We identified that the opportunities of having somebody to coordinate all of the initiatives that we need to do will lead to not only 20% productivity improvements, it will lead to improvements in culture, improvements in marketing, leadership, and training as well. It's an ideal opportunity to really drive the business forward.

As a result of doing the programme, we've fast-tracked our IT upgrade, we are more profitable than we've ever been before, we are more efficient, we are doing a lot better, and the future is looking very, very good.

The Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Leeds Beckett University and multinational infrastructure and engineering company, Amey, was rated Outstanding by Innovate UK and created an estimated post-KTP profit of £1.3million by the third year. The University recently announced three new projects: with Inspired Pet Nutrition based in Thirsk, Welsh manufacturing company ABER Instruments, and Leeds-based Medasil Surgical Limited.

KEF aims to improve the status of knowledge exchange and provide the public with information on the rich and diverse ways English universities continue to engage with society and the economy, locally, national and internationally.

The full dashboards are available on the KEF’s interactive website.

David Sweeney CBE, Executive Chair of Research England, said: “Knowledge exchange is integral to the mission and purpose of our universities, and its importance in contributing to societal and economic prosperity is strongly supported by the Government.

“Today’s new version of the Knowledge Exchange Framework takes further forward the vision and potential of KE activity, providing richer evidence to demonstrate universities’ strengths in different areas when set alongside their peers.”

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