Collaborate with us
By uniting our strengths in research, teaching and enterprise with the strengths of your organisation, we can create innovative solutions to a range of modern issues affecting industry, academia and society.
If your organisation is facing a challenge, our students and academic staff can bring new ideas and a fresh perspective to the problem, helping you to create innovative solutions.
If you are looking for insight to develop a product or service, our students and staff can help you to understand what customers really want, versus what your organisation or leadership team believes to be true.
Through collaboration with industry, our students are able to transform theory intro practice and shape the future development of a real organisation. They are given an insight into the inner workings of an organisation, and can use this experience to gain valuable skills that employers are looking for in future employees.
There are multiple opportunities to collaborate with our talented students and experienced network of academic experts. Please take a look below and get in touch with our team.
Why collaborate with us?
The Collaborative Project
A key feature of the master's programmes delivered at Loughborough University London is the Collaborative Project module.
Over the course of three weeks, students work in small, interdisciplinary teams on a brief provided by one of our valued project partner organisations. The project is supervised and facilitated by an academic Project Lead, and at the end of the project, student teams present back to organisations outlining their findings and proposed solutions.
During the three weeks, project partner organisations take part in presenting the brief to students, watching and giving feedback on the team presentations and attending the Collaborative Project Show – a celebration and showcase of the work students and partner organisations have undertaken.
The Collaborate programme at Loughborough University London is fantastic, we have collaborated for several years and I reference it regularly to people talking about preparing talent coming in to industry – and by return prepping industry for the way future talent operates.
Rachel Edwards, Senior Strategist Future of Work at Lendlease
The module was both challenging and rewarding and by collaborating with peers from diverse backgrounds, we tackled various ideas and obstacles to work towards a common deliverable. This unique module stimulated my leadership and teamwork capabilities, and provided valuable insights into real-world projects, giving me experience of strategically working for clients and helping solve their business challenges.
Sidharth Menon, MSc Digital Finance Institute of Digital Technologies.
Get involved in the Collaborative Project
The Collaborative Project Module will take place from 18 May to 5 June 2026, with the Collaborative Project Show taking place on 25 June 2026. Please see the timeline below for more details.
If you are interested in submitting a project brief, please get in touch or complete the short form.
| Dates | Stage |
|---|---|
| November – January 2026 | Organisations submit a short project brief to Loughborough University London for consideration. |
| End of January 2026 | Successful brief applications confirmed. |
| February and March 2026 | Organisations are introduced to the Academic Project leads, and project briefs are refined and finalised. |
| 18 May – 5 June 2026 |
The Collaborative Project Module takes place over 3 weeks. Organisations present their project brief to student teams, interact with teams to answer questions and give feedback on teams presentations. |
| 25 June 2026, 5pm – 7.30pm | Collaborative Project Show at Plexal – organisations and academics attend with winning student teams showcasing their projects. |