Company projects

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Access our ambitious students in their consultancy modules and see your organisation benefit from fresh insights and perspectives tailored to your needs.

Is a project right for you?

The Company Projects team engages with external organisations to source and scope real-world projects for undergraduate and postgraduate consultancy project modules; partnering with clients to address specific business challenges.  

Collaborate with our students as a host for a Company Project, embedded into a relevant academic module. The projects are a core and critical element of a student’s course, providing them with invaluable consultancy and hands-on industry experience.  

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Our students

  • Deliver valuable insights to address bespoke business challenges
  • Propose actionable recommendations tailored to the context you give them
  • Contribute fresh perspectives, putting the latest theory taught at Lancaster University into practice
  • Can help to grow your business at little to no cost to you, taking on helpful pieces of research or tasks your team has not had the chance to focus on
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Potential project themes

Projects cover a wide range of business functions, including:

  • Strategy, operations and business planning
  • Market research and marketing analytics
  • Project management
  • Digital transformation in business
  • People, culture and human resources
  • Statistics, logistics and forecasting

Talk to a member of the team to see if this is the right option for you, if your idea sits outside of these areas, we can help you assess or refer you to the right colleague. Email us at studentprojects@lancaster.ac.uk

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How our Company Project Managers can help you

Our Company Project Managers are here to support you throughout the project

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Free, personalised support

to help you identify and scope your business challenges  

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Collaborate to create a tailored project brief

to detail your specific aims and objectives

Connect your growth ambitions with practical academic insight

our modules cover strategy, finance, innovation and more, giving you tools you can apply straight

Stay ahead of change by tapping into the latest thinking

from entrepreneurship and market analysis to digital transformation, our programmes help you spot new

“I would say to any other businesses thinking about doing this, definitely do, because I think from my perspective, it’s just given us a different outlook"

Simon Powell, Operations Manager, Leyland DAF

Meet the team

Ajay Bains

Ajay Bains

LUMS Company Projects Manager

+44 (0)1524 522125
Shelley Morgan

Shelley Morgan

LUMS Company Projects Manager

+44 (0)1524 522084

MBA Projects

Our experienced MBA students can help you find the right solution to your business issue with an in-depth investigation and strategic recommendations. Our three challenges run each year at specific times during the programme:

EMBA Consultancy Challenge: One week - April

MBA Consultancy Challenge: four weeks, April - May

MBA Capstone Challenge: Six weeks - Summer

MBA recruitment
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