Working with Business and Industry: Knowledge Transfer

The HRI shares fully the University’s commitment to Knowledge Transfer—the use, application and exploitation of specialist knowledge outside the academic environment. With the support of the Office of Corporate Partnerships (OCP), and drawing on its wealth of expertise in the advanced application of ICT to arts and humanities research, the HRI has already collaborated with a leading representative of Sheffield’s creative and cultural industries, Red Star Studios, to produce a virtual reconstruction of a crucial part of Sheffield’s industrial heritage, Benjamin Huntsman’s Attercliffe steelworks. It is currently working with the French Department and Cupola Contemporary Art on ‘Channel: Investigating the practice of contemporary artists in France’: this will lead to an exhibition in May and June at three sites, including the HRI, which will also host a number of events associated with the exhibition. A number of other possibilities are also being pursued.

If you think the HRI, or any of the departments in the University’s Arts and Humanities Division, can make a contribution to your business, contact the HRI Research & Development Officer, Michael Pidd (m.pidd@sheffield.ac.uk; 0114 222 6116) to discuss possibilities.