Contact Us
For find out more about ConsultUCD please contact
Elizabeth Nolan
Head, ConsultUCD
About ConsultUCD
ConsultUCD, UCD's managed consultancy service, connects business, industry, government and non-profit organisations with UCD academics of all disciplines.
Examples of Consultancy
ConsultUCD is a dedicated consultancy service supporting UCD academics share their skills and apply their research expertise to help a wide range of organisations.
Consultancy projects can arise from any academic discipline and from organisations in all sectors.
Examples of consultancy services that UCD’s consultants deliver
- Devising technical and innovative solutions to business projects
- Assisting with strategic planning and follow-on initiatives
- Reviewing strategy and policy reports
- Giving expert witness advice or testimony
- Writing expert reports
- Developing and providing bespoke training
- Presenting at seminars and business conferences
- Serving on advisory boards, panels or committees
- Using specialist research facilities or laboratories.
Business, Government, Non-Profit and Industry
ConsultUCD offers a dedicated consultancy service to provide you with facilitated access to UCD’s world-class academics and state-of-the-art equipment. Our academics, from all disciplines, can support you with:
- Technical and innovative advice
- Strategic initiatives and planning
- Expert reports and opinions
- Development of bespoke training
Consultancy projects provide an easy, low-risk route for you to engage with UCD. We can help your organisation to find answers to complex or technical questions that might be costly or difficult to address in other ways. Whether you require support for a one-off project or a longer-term collaboration, we can provide access and simplify the engagement process.
Consulting supports UCD’s strategy and enhances society by applying our expertise to specific challenges and creates opportunity, employment and wealth.
Academic Consultancy
Academic consultancy is where a member of UCD’s academic staff works as an expert adviser or consultant to an external organisation, in return for a commercial fee. You typically use your existing knowledge and expertise to answer the client’s questions or provide opinions and advice, rather than to create new knowledge.
Consultancy complements other outputs such as academic publications, inventions, licensing, new ventures and company formations. Taking on consultancy work is an opportunity to further develop your academic career as consultancy pursued through University channels is a recognised activity under Innovation and Impact in the career Development Framework for Faculty.
To support you ConsultUCD offers a range of supports:
- Help you identify consulting opportunities
- Negotiate attractive commercial terms and conditions for your activities
- Provide access to UCD insurance
- Save you time by reducing the administration associated with consultancy
- Distribute payments received
- Record and consolidate your consulting activity
- Provide consulting supports including tools, advice, workshops and training sessions.
Why Use ConsultUCD
ConsultUCD is here to support projects, of all sizes, from all academic disciplines. Consultancy assignments provide an easy, low-risk route for a company or other organisation to engage with UCD, perhaps for the first time.
While much consultancy work is likely to be carried out for organisations you already know – helping you to build and extend your professional relationships with business/public sector organisations, it can also provide the opportunity to create new contacts, which in turn could lead to sponsored research or other longer-term engagements. In addition, it can deliver financial and academic rewards for you and your team, School or College.