Working with businesses is an excellent way to develop your research skills further. Collaborating with a business can offer you the opportunity to apply your expertise to a different setting, deliver clear impact and generate research income.

Working with businesses is faster-paced than working on traditional research, so you may find that you need to be more responsive and commit to working to tighter deadlines than you are used to. Whilst this should not be prohibitive to any work you want to undertake, it is helpful to keep your line manager and other senior colleagues in your faculty informed.