
Partnerships
We are the Industry Partnership team and we are part of the Research and Innovation Directorate, formed to support and accelerate the University of Surrey’s journey to becoming a great global ranking university.
What we do
Working closely with a range of departments including, Technology Transfer, Business Enterprise Programmes and across Research and Innovation, we engage, nurture and grow existing and new strategic partnerships alliances to:
- Drive collaboration with industry
- Showcase Surrey’s research expertise
- Engage in joint projects to tackle societal issues
- Secure capabilities to conduct more and new research (funding, data and skills).
Our external partnerships include working with research labs, corporate commercial companies plus local, regional and central government organisations.
Example initiatives include the development of the world-leading 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) - establishing a consortium of over 75 corporate and SME partners - and the proposed Digital Space Campus at the Surrey Research Park - co-locating the UK’s digital games and space innovation ecosystems.
Strategic research themes
Our team focuses on the following University strategic research themes:
Get in touch
If you have any questions or want to work with us then please contact a member of the Industry Partnership Team.

Rachel Hargreaves
Health and medical sciences

Nathalie Hinds
Arts, humanities and social sciences

Angela Murphy
Cyber security, AI, 5G, transport

Peter Sewell
Space and aerospace

Dr Wenqian (Tim) Zhu
China