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- Maintain the 大象传媒鈥檚 position as a Centre of Excellence for research and development in broadcasting and related technologies.
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- Are conducted within the 大象传媒 and in co-operation with university departments and businesses
Importantly, partnerships add value to 大象传媒 output and services and deliver greater value to audiences through inventions and innovations developed collaboratively with partners from academia and industry.
Partnerships allow us to develop talented and skilled individuals, train and equip them to address future challenges that will continue to deliver innovative, engaging and accessible content and services.
Collaboration with our partners in industry and academia is essential to making our vision of the future a reality. Together we are investigating the creative possibilities the internet allows for programme makers and audiences. And together we are setting the standards to make our vision a reality.
Collaborative research projects
We have a rich and successful history of collaborating with partners in the UK, Europe and across the world. As a strategic partner of leading Funding Bodies, we help to influence the research and innovation landscape. Our own staff are experts in the impact assessment of research outcomes from industry-academic consortia
Our applied collaborative research project outcomes have far-reaching benefits, economically socially and culturally. We are driven by demonstrating measurable impact across the 大象传媒 with our design, engineering and editorial business colleagues, aswell as on the wider industry, and on our diverse audience.
Major Partnership Frameworks
Our long-term themed academic partnerships help to advance the state-of-the-art in their research domains.
We create value for both the 大象传媒 and for our academic partners by driving measurable impact from our collaborations. The impact benefits our audiences and the wider global industry.
These multi-partner five-year framework partnerships with universities pull together a critical mass of experts, to address long-term challenges, by harnessing 大象传媒鈥檚 knowhow and applying scientific academic rigour.
Examples of such recent partnerships include:
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Data Science Research Partnership
大象传媒 Research and Development, along with colleagues from around the 大象传媒, launched a five-year research partnership with eight UK Universities to unlock the potential of data in the media in October 2017. The Data Science Research Partnership aims to be at the forefront of machine learning in the media industry, helping create a more personal 大象传媒 that can inform, educate and entertain in new ways. -
Audio Research Partnership
The Audio Research Partnership launched in 2011 brought together 5 UK universities to build a next generation audio capability for the 大象传媒. By applying the spatial audio research outcomes into a new binaural production system at Cardiff, the 大象传媒 has provided our audio production teams and our audiences an un-rivalled immersive listening experience, using object-based audio. Also significant has been our collaborative work using responsive and interactive content as well as on music navigation. -
UX Research Partnership
The User Experience Research Partnership was launched in July 2013 with 6 university partners. It's mission is to explore the potential of new forms of content and interaction in a multi-platform world, alongside new ways of producing media that will help make content more accessible to all audiences. The research aims to define open standards and support the creative industries in producing engaging content in the future.
Through these long-term partnerships we work with best-of-breed academic experts to develop our 大象传媒 capability in order to deliver compelling experiences for our audiences and drive the industry forward. The impact that this five-year collaborative activity generates is significant in terms of reaching existing audiences in new ways, reaching new audiences, influencing national policy and feeding into international open standards for the benefit of widespread adoption.
Applied Research to solve industry-based problems
We have an extensive portfolio of research and innovation collaborations within frameworks of and the that address important future challenges.
Our networks of partners across the UK and Europe have achieved measurable impact, economically, culturally and on wider society.
Training and Skills Development
Hosting Industrial CASE PhD students and Engineering Doctorate students in our labs is one of our flagship activities. We sponsor students for the entirely of their doctoral training, and for short-term internships.
We provide bright young scientists and engineers with on-the-job training in a corporate R&D facility. and on attachment throughout the 大象传媒 are key to their future success. It is also an effective talent spotting opportunity for us.
Knowledge Sharing and Impact Assessment
We actively contribute to knowledge sharing through secondments of academics into R&D and of R&D staff into academia.
We sit on numerous technology advisory boards and provide expert impact assessor and reviewers to funding bodies and other agencies.
Influence and National Importance
We proactively help to influence and shape the strategic research agendas of key funding bodies, by identifying future challenges and ways of tackling them.
We are strategic partners of UK Research Councils and seek to influence transformational change in areas that will achieve greatest impact on UK plc and our citizens. We contribute to the agendas of industry consortia for technological advance, viable business models, and user/consumer benefit. We work closely with UK Government and their agendas for science, technology and innovation and for the arts and humanities.
How to work with us
We have established a dedicated partnerships team to develop and manage our portfolio of external collaborations, with proven expertise and knowledge of the legal and financial issues surrounding joint proposals, and liaison with funding and collaboration bodies.
If you want to find out more about our current activities and explore ways of working with us, please contact us at collaborate.rd@bbc.co.uk