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What can we achieve together?

Our range of collaborative business projects will surprise you. Commercially focused and innovative, we are here to help you achieve more.

Together we can explore improving processes, develop market-leading products, or motivate and inspire your staff to make a real difference.

We work in partnership with many different organisations. Our case studies will help you understand our approach. We hope they will inspire you to contact us to explore what we can achieve by working together.

To find a case study related to your area of interest, use our case study search.

  • SIG
    The company turned to our Centre for Individual and Organisational Development (CIOD), part of Sheffield Business School. It was clear from the outset that the company wanted much more than an off the shelf package, but because CIOD has more than 200 academics at its disposal, it was possible for them to design a package to meet SIG's exact requirements, using academics with considerable commercial experience.
  • Sumo Digital
    MERI's work has been funded by major companies such as BNFL and Rolls Royce, but the team started to think about other ways in which this technology could have an impact and that's when they hit upon the idea that it could bring something quite new to the games industry. This led to the development of the ThinkingWater® programme, which offers a highly efficient means of simulating the flow of fluids.
  • IonBond AG
    IonBond approached our Nanotechnology Centre for PVD Research, based within the Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI), which has been carrying out pioneering research in this area. Dr Arutiun Ehiasarian and Professor Papken Hovsepian and their team have created one of the world's leading centres of expertise in HIPIMS.
  • South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
    Robotics expert Dr Jacques Penders of the Materials Engineering Research Institute (MERI) is working with South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and a number of European partners to develop palm-sized robots, named the Guardians and the Viewfinders, which will soon be the first to enter burning buildings.
  • Urban Hygiene
    Experts in the Biomedical Research Centre were brought in to test the effectiveness of 'easy-on'. They measured the number of bacteria that survived cleaning with detergent on surfaces such as wood and metal that had been coated with the solution, and the results were then compared with both acrylic and emulsion paints.
  • Swiss Masai AG
    Swiss Masai AG commissioned the Centre for Sport and Exercise Science (CSES) to put their shoes through their paces in a two-month programme of laboratory testing. The study used a 3D motion analysis computer system to analyse the effects of walking on people wearing MBTs compared with those wearing conventional footwear.
  • Northern Foods
    They consulted the research team from the Centre for Food Innovation, as part of a project which brought together staff from throughout Sheffield Hallam, working in partnership with key stakeholders from Defra, Yorkshire Forward, the Food Technology Advisory Service and Business Link.
  • North East Derbyshire District Council
    Hallam Energy conducted an assessment on the CHP plant, producing case studies of a number of options.
  • NHS
    Staff from the University's coaching and mentoring team have been training a group of patients with chronic health conditions in mentoring skills, so they can share their experiences with doctors and other healthcare professionals in an effort to promote understanding of the realities of living with long-term health problems.
  • Penny Hydraulics
    Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are a government-backed initiative in which businesses take on new graduates who are supported by a mentor from a university. In this way, the company benefits from the scientific and business knowledge of universities, while the graduate can develop their skills in a real working environment.