Grocemania was started by Kingston University graduates working out of our incubation space. Our partnership has led to a number of projects including: helping graduates develop entrepreneurial skills; graduate training schemes; competing in the Bright Ideas competition; student consultancy projects; and guest lecturing. Grocemania has also been involved in the Santander Universities project and will continue to support our students in the form of work placements.
For the eighth year running, Kingston University has been rated amongst the top two most successful UK higher education institutions for graduate start-up companies (Higher Education - Business and Community Interaction Survey).
Pangea is a leading global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and solutions. They deploy award-winning IoT solutions with businesses and organisations across industries including construction, retail, automotive, energy, healthcare, and agriculture - ranging from large scale fleet management to smart bikes that provide valuable environmental research to city councils.
Pangea have collaborated with Kingston University on a number of mutually-beneficial projects and initiatives. These have included skills development programmes, student consultancy projects, graduate training schemes and a Santander Universities project. The partnership has gone from strength to strength with the latest successful collaboration between our academic and scientific teams jointly winning an award from InnovateUK.
Find out more about the joint project Kingston University and Pangea are currently working on involving a 5G-enabled video streaming system that will allow A&E doctors to make life-saving decisions on patient care.
Salutem delivers learning and physical disability services, children's services, education services and mental health services. Since 2018, it has been involved in various entrepreneurial activities at Kingston University, and has judged students' ideas at our flagship Bright Ideas competitions.
Salutem has also run a hackathon where students from multiple disciplines came up with creative ways to use technology to monitor, predict and manage complex behaviour in Salutem's service users. The hackathon has led to Kingston University and Salutem working on a government-subsidised project to bring artificial intelligence to areas of care that will allow more time for human one-to-one care, whilst reducing menial tasks that are performed better and safer if automated.
Salutem has also provided scholarships for academically excellent students who might not otherwise have been able to go to university. This academic year Salutem are supporting two students on the Learning Disability Nursing course, and will look to widen the support to more Kingston students in other areas of care over the next three years.
The strong relationship between Kingston University and Salutem is based on the personal connections the two founders have with Kingston University. Ian Morley, the Chairman of Salutem is an Industrial Fellow of Kingston and taught on the MSc Strategic Finance Course. The daughter of John Godden, the CEO of Salutem, studied at Kingston. These personal relationships have led to a more structured business collaboration in recent years.
"The hackathon was a hugely positive experience for all involved. The students were energised and engaged creating innovative solutions and ideas that were really impressive. The University team communicated well and created a great sense of focus and expectation to make the most of the time we had together and meet the challenging brief we set." – Zoe Anderson, Group Head of Positive Behaviour Support for Salutem Healthcare.
