Specialist Centres
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Agility and Supply Chain
Management Centre
Theme(s)
Management & Enterprise
Materials, Advanced Design & Manufacturing
Website
Assists small manufacturing businesses to develop and grow
using the techniques and tools of agility to ensure they can thrive in
changing environments without any compromise to cost or quality.
The Centre has developed an implementation framework which
comprises a set of auditing and planning tools to guide companies
through the agility adoption stages. It offers a number of services
ranging from awareness seminars and general and bespoke work-
shops, to detailed projects to improve internal company processes
and establish a better understanding of growth opportunities.
The latter includes assisting companies to develop new business
processes, new products and target new markets. The model used
by the Centre capitalises on the availability of additional resources
such as PhD and MSc graduate projects that can be tailored to the
needs of companies.
Centre for Autonomous Systems
Technology
Theme(s)
Digital Technologies
Risk, Safety & Security
Website
Carries out research, provides training, and interacts with industry
in order to design, develop and deploy safe, reliable autonomous
systems. It brings together interdisciplinary research excellence
from the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
and Electronics, Engineering, and the Virtual Engineering Centre
at Daresbury in:
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Software autonomy, agreement technologies,
reliability and safety
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Autonomous sensors, communications, data fusion,
and robotics
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Vehicle dynamics, aerospace applications,
virtual engineering and autonomous control
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High fidelity design, simulation and analysis
capabilities
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Industry-facing expertise and technological
exploitation.
Specialist Centres
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Centre for Architecture and
the Visual Arts
Theme(s)
Society & Culture
Website
Drives high level research into architecture and the visual arts in the
University, the city, and the world beyond. As well as collaborating
with institutions such as Tate Liverpool, National Museums
Liverpool and the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology
(
FACT), the Centre has an international focus on high quality
debate regarding the history, contemporary status and future of
architecture in relation to the visual arts. The Centre specialises in
20
th century and contemporary visual arts history, theory, practice
and policy studies. It provides research expertise to professional
organisations involved in the areas of visual arts collection,
curation, exhibition, public education and dissemination. It also
offers specialist historical, social and cultural perspectives for
organisations seeking to review and develop their visual arts
provision in these fields of professional practice.
Centre for Better Births
Theme(s)
Health & Wellbeing
Website
Led by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with Liverpool
Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, this purpose-built Centre brings
doctors, midwives, health professionals and scientists together
to focus on better births and translate the benefits to women and
their families in the UK and internationally.
