Newcastle University

Current Research Projects

KITE has a strong portfolio of research and consultancy projects from a variety of national and international project funders and partners and a variety of local and regional agencies.

Recent studies include:

• work on partnership networking architecture in multi-agency environments,
• regional science policies,
• university contributions to regional development,
• processes of learning in city-regions,
• university spin off companies,
• transformative effects of ICTs on regions.

Current projects include: 

• Designing Scalable Assistive Technologies & Services for Independent Healthy Living & Sustainability (SALT)
  Project Leader(s): Professor Patrick Olivier (School of Computing Science)
• Entrepreneurial Intentions in an Entrepreneurially lagging region
  Project Leader(s): Fiona Whitehurst
• Generating Insights for the Future
  Project Leader(s): Rob Wilson
• Graduate Recruitment to SMEs
  Project Leader(s): Dr Tracy Scurry