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Academic consultants

Do you have a business challenge that one of our academics could help solve?
Our academics can act as consultants for you.

Relevant research that solves your business challenge

Our broad range of expertise, research institutes, centres and groups means we’ve helped many organisations access existing knowledge and facilities that have helped them solve a business issue.

The types of consultancy projects we can help you with include:

Identifying the right academic for you

Our dedicated team of business-friendly Partnership Development Managers can work with you to understand your needs and find an academic most suited to answering your particular business-related question.

Looking for a specific research specialism?

Search our Directory of Experts

Find out why so many organisations choose to partner with us

Why collaborate with ARU?

A business development team that listens to your needs

Our Partnership Development Managers are business-friendly people. Good at listening and understanding a client’s brief, they can help you quickly identify a suitable academic in your desired field, and answer any questions you might have about confidentiality, intellectual property, timescales or costings.

Contact us via email on [email protected]

Dr Magdalena Zawisza, Areas of Expertise: Applied, Social and Health Psychology

Dr Magdalena Zawisza is an academic psychologist. Her research interests include gender, consumer and social psychology and focus mainly on issues of gender, sexism and advertising. She has worked on many consultancy projects helping local organisations to grow and prosper.

"Working with businesses is a very rewarding experience. I get to apply my knowledge of brand image and consumer psychology to help businesses with their marketing issues online or offline. Every case is different and advanced knowledge and research is essential for companies to make the right decisions."

Our consultancy success stories

Surgical Holdings

Consultancy Case Study

Brand new

How consultancy can help business innovate

Marstons Beer Company

Answering pressing questions

Systech International

Supporting project delivery