Research partnerships

Academics in the Faculty are working on world leading research within arts and humanities. We have the expertise to help you.

Partner with our researchers and engage our students to spark ideas, exchange expertise and develop projects that shape the world around us.

Research

Collaborate with us on projects and activities for mutual benefit. Working together we can combine our expertise, creativity and curiosity to develop solutions for our challenges. We are doing ground-breaking work to exchange ideas with communities and the public to explore the entrepreneurial potential of our research. Together we can:

Engage with our research centres and groups. They are driving innovation through interdisciplinarity, developing new approaches to existing challenges and pioneering research in new areas.

Enhance collaborative doctoral training with us at the home to the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership and the South West Doctoral Training Partnership

Education

Engage with our students as part of their programmes. Help us devise real-world challenges that enable students to apply their subject knowledge and skills creatively and at the same time bring benefit to your team and the wider community.

Options include:

  • Generating a client-led brief.
  • Developing an engaged learning opportunity.
  • Offering a placement

Career leads

For more information on education partnerships, please contact the Faculty's Career Leads

External collaborators

The Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences collaborates with a wide range of external partners to collectively address societal changes.

From policymakers to community organisations, you can collaborate with us in a number of ways. more and get in touch through one of the following routes.

Policy

To collaborate with us on policy matters, contact us through PolicyBristol.

Our research influences policy and practice at the local, national and international level. PolicyBristol brings together expertise from academics, policymakers and practitioners in innovative collaborations.

Businesses and community organisations

To find out how your organisation can partner with us, contact us through our Professional Liaison Network.

We manage a range of partnerships - from large corporates and SMEs to voluntary, charity and community organisations - across Bristol and beyond. We can connect you with our staff and students working and studying in academic disciplines relevant to your work. All kinds of organisations where the social sciences and law are utilised could benefit from working with us.