Get Involved
7 Steps to Becoming a F.a.M.E Industry Partner:
Step 1:
How to identify your organisations research needs
Visit the contact page and register for free to access and download free and relevant research data and information. To start, simply fill in your email, name and organisation by selecting the ‘register’ tab. Then add a selection of key words that describe your research areas of interest. These can be as few or as many as you require. Congratulations! Now you have joined the F.a.M.E partnership and can access historical, relevant information that matches your key words, whilst hundreds of local students working towards a Higher Education qualification will base their current one year research projects on the key words you have identified. You can change, amend or add to your key words at any time.
Step 2:
Research Brief
Once registered, you will work with a key F.a.M.E contact to develop a student research proposal that fits with your needs and those of the student. You will develop a short outline that is realistic, achievable and timely with regard to all parties involved (generally to be completed within an academic year). You can access all the previous work to give you a good idea of what is achievable and discuss the benefits and pitfalls of working with students. Hot tips will be available!
Step 3:
Research Bids
Once you have put together your proposal, the next step is to participate in a “Dragons' Den” style board where students will have the opportunity to say why they would be the best person to carry out your research.
Step 4:
Question Time
Remember to set aside several short sessions to meet and correspond with your commissioned student in the following months to raise questions and ideas. Often this is one of the student’s first research projects and whilst supervised by expert academics, support from your organisation at the early stages will enable a maximum research output for all involved.
Step 5:
Keeping Track
You will receive notification when your student researcher has completed their research work, and uploaded it onto their Online F.a.M.E Portfolio for you to view. Documents such as the Research Methodology and Literature Review will be available to you by logging onto this site.
Step 6:
Research Day
A year on from when you commissioned your student, you will be invited to attend their Research Day event at which they will present an overview of their research results to their peers and other F.a.M.E corporate partners. The event provides the student with the opportunity to gain academic marks for their research and your support at this event is always greatly appreciated. Details of the Research Day are available on this website. Research Day is the official handover of the outputs of the student research to your organisation. It is an excellent networking, promotional and recruitment opportunity for your organisation.
Step 7:
Success through Partnership
F.a.M.E is made possible through academics, industry and students working together.
Whilst the F.a.M.E research produced continues to be of great value to industry partners, F.a.M.E research is undertaken by students with academic supervision. This must be citied when publishing or externally disseminating any FaME research.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for F.a.M.E research belongs to the academic institution but all outputs are shared with industry partners and are publically available.
Testimonials:
...Being a F.a.M.E industry partner enables our organisation to address skills issues at a local educational level whilst ensuring a sustainable and cost effective source of research for the port environment...
Captain M.J Sansom (Falmouth Harbour Commissioners, Chief Executive and Harbour Master)
...increasingly we need to work with academic institutions to both build on our understanding of the environment we are managing but also to offer opportunities to students to provide experience about real management issues and apply the science and the techniques students have developed. Given the restrictions in public funding it makes sense that any work we do has benefits to academics, students and organisations like our own.
Samantha Davis (Cornwall Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authority)
How to identify your organisations research needs
Visit the contact page and register for free to access and download free and relevant research data and information. To start, simply fill in your email, name and organisation by selecting the ‘register’ tab. Then add a selection of key words that describe your research areas of interest. These can be as few or as many as you require. Congratulations! Now you have joined the F.a.M.E partnership and can access historical, relevant information that matches your key words, whilst hundreds of local students working towards a Higher Education qualification will base their current one year research projects on the key words you have identified. You can change, amend or add to your key words at any time.
Step 2:
Research Brief
Once registered, you will work with a key F.a.M.E contact to develop a student research proposal that fits with your needs and those of the student. You will develop a short outline that is realistic, achievable and timely with regard to all parties involved (generally to be completed within an academic year). You can access all the previous work to give you a good idea of what is achievable and discuss the benefits and pitfalls of working with students. Hot tips will be available!
Step 3:
Research Bids
Once you have put together your proposal, the next step is to participate in a “Dragons' Den” style board where students will have the opportunity to say why they would be the best person to carry out your research.
Step 4:
Question Time
Remember to set aside several short sessions to meet and correspond with your commissioned student in the following months to raise questions and ideas. Often this is one of the student’s first research projects and whilst supervised by expert academics, support from your organisation at the early stages will enable a maximum research output for all involved.
Step 5:
Keeping Track
You will receive notification when your student researcher has completed their research work, and uploaded it onto their Online F.a.M.E Portfolio for you to view. Documents such as the Research Methodology and Literature Review will be available to you by logging onto this site.
Step 6:
Research Day
A year on from when you commissioned your student, you will be invited to attend their Research Day event at which they will present an overview of their research results to their peers and other F.a.M.E corporate partners. The event provides the student with the opportunity to gain academic marks for their research and your support at this event is always greatly appreciated. Details of the Research Day are available on this website. Research Day is the official handover of the outputs of the student research to your organisation. It is an excellent networking, promotional and recruitment opportunity for your organisation.
Step 7:
Success through Partnership
F.a.M.E is made possible through academics, industry and students working together.
Whilst the F.a.M.E research produced continues to be of great value to industry partners, F.a.M.E research is undertaken by students with academic supervision. This must be citied when publishing or externally disseminating any FaME research.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for F.a.M.E research belongs to the academic institution but all outputs are shared with industry partners and are publically available.
Testimonials:
...Being a F.a.M.E industry partner enables our organisation to address skills issues at a local educational level whilst ensuring a sustainable and cost effective source of research for the port environment...
Captain M.J Sansom (Falmouth Harbour Commissioners, Chief Executive and Harbour Master)
...increasingly we need to work with academic institutions to both build on our understanding of the environment we are managing but also to offer opportunities to students to provide experience about real management issues and apply the science and the techniques students have developed. Given the restrictions in public funding it makes sense that any work we do has benefits to academics, students and organisations like our own.
Samantha Davis (Cornwall Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authority)
