Transferring good ideas, research results and skills between universities, other research organisations, business and the wider community can generate innovative new products and services for society and better inform public policy.
As part of the UEA's commitment to Knowledge Transfer, members of staff and students in the School are involved in a wide range of different activities, including:
- providing expert advice to national, European and international policy makers;
- collaborative projects involving private and public sector organisations;
- disseminating their ideas through the media;
- giving lectures and presentations on their work to the public professional associations;
- participating in events to give school pupils from across Norfolk a 'first taste' of higher education;
- working as independent consultants on a wide range of projects with a number of leading businesses and organisations.
In addition, we have started to offer a Year in Industry option with all of our undergraduate degree programmes. These enable students to gain relevant work experience as part of their studies, which greatly enhance their long time career prospects.
In the School there are a number of organisations, which are directly concerned with KT activities in areas of weather forecasting and climate change, environmental impact, sustainability.
CRed (Low Carbon Innovation Centre) - The Community Carbon Reduction Programme addresses the problem of climate change by helping individuals and the community to reduce CO2 emissions with the aim of a 60% reduction by 2025.
WeatherQuest Ltd - Weatherquest is a private weather forecasting and weather analysis company which provides tailored services for weather sensitive farming, business and leisure activities, in the UK and abroad.
Carbon Connections - The Carbon Connections Development Fund managed by the University of East Anglia supports organisations with innovative projects for carbon reduction - such as new technologies and behavioural change by businesses and individuals.
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (TYN) - The Tyndall Centre has its headquarters in the School of Environmental Sciences. The centre researches and assesses the means of mitigating and adapting to climate change, and helps turn the results into practical policies and measures at local, UK and global levels.
Renewables East - This organisation helps develop and deploy low carbon energy solutions into the East of England economy, whilst ensuring the region exploits the economic benefits.
