What projects are suitable?
Given our students’ career aspirations, we especially welcome projects provided by financial institutions and consulting firms. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Impact of the use of technologies on financial institutions
- Applications of Generative AI in businesses
- Challenges of hybrid working in banks
- Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
- Approaches to understand clients’ needs
Please reach out to us if you would like to discuss topics not directly related to the examples listed above.
Qualifying criteria
- Complete an application form setting out clear project objectives
- Have an interesting research topic that meets academic requirements
- Willingness to communicate business details to the student
- Ability to engage with the student throughout the project
- Commitment to share necessary data and arrange access for data collection (NDAs can be signed as part of the process)
Timescale
| Action | Date |
|---|---|
| Contact Business Engagement Manager to discuss your project | Any time |
| Expression of interest | By mid-November |
| Client project proposal due | Deadline: 11 December |
| Final list of projects confirmed | By end of January |
| Projects are matched to students | Late February |
| Client informed of matching outcome | Early March |
| Dissertation period | May to mid-August |
| Initial meeting between client and student and project scoping | May |
| MoU and NDA agreed | By end of May |
| Student carries out the research | Exact start date to be agreed in the MoU (from May onwards to mid-August) |
| Outputs delivered to the client | End of August |
Discuss your ideas
If you would like more information on student projects please contact Mhari McIntyre, our Business Engagement Manager.