The programme offers an exciting opportunity to link students on Masters courses and their university supervisors with leading retail companies on projects which are important to the retail industry.
The scheme provides the opportunity to work directly with an industrial partner and to link students’ research to important retail and ‘open data’ sources. The project titles are devised by retailers and are open to students from a wide range of disciplines.
2022 Projects (updated regularly)
Study on and modelling of attendees’ decisions on their journey to an event
Partner: GHD Movement Strategies
Status: CLOSED
Study on the arrival profile of large public events
Partner: GHD Movement Strategies
Status: CLOSED
Driving Net Zero Future Energy Targets using Smart Sensors
Partner: GHD Movement Strategies
Status: CLOSED
“Socio-economic unfairness Index” of Travel – travel ticket purchasing behaviour as barriers to economic and social mobility
Partner: West Midlands Combined Authority
Status: CLOSED
To what extent are current societal events likely to affect future household/commercial financial vulnerability, using CCJs as a proxy for indebtedness.
Partner: The Registry Trust
Status: CLOSED
Assessment of potential Library of Things locations to accelerate the adoption of borrowing over buying, boosting local circular economies and helping communities reduce their environmental impact
Partner: Library of Things
Status: CLOSED
Understanding the opportunities to drive a net positive impact for biodiversity within a UK retailers direct operations
Partner: Sainsbury’s
Status: CLOSED
Understanding the impact restrictions on mobility and working from home has had on GB train station hubs as desirable retail
environment locations
Partner: Local Data Company
Status: CLOSED
Site selection methodology for retailers
Partner: Olvin
Status: CLOSED
Understanding the intrinsic value of products by accounting for overlapping influential factors.
Partner: Entain Group
Status: CLOSED
Analysis of price points in the safer gambling marketplace and modelling their impacts upon demand and share of customer spend.
Partner: Entain Group
Status: CLOSED
Temporal analysis of customer spending habits.
Partner: Entain Group
Status: CLOSED
Understanding the economic and real estate impact of the creation of a gaming industry in Dubai.
Partner: Knight Frank
Status: CLOSED
