Queen Mary support
Queen Mary is committed to fostering meaningful relationships and transformative projects that benefit communities, cultural institutions, businesses, and organisations.
Knowledge Exchange
‘Knowledge Exchange’ is the term used to describe the range of activities universities carry out with partners and other organisations such as businesses, charities and community groups, for the benefit of the economy and society.
By facilitating partnerships with businesses, government bodies, healthcare providers, and non-profits, Knowledge Exchange enables the co-creation of solutions to real-world challenges for the benefit of the economy and society.
From supporting entrepreneurial ventures to enhancing workforce skills and enabling research that addresses local challenges, KE embodies Queen Mary’s civic mission.
Public Engagement team
At Queen Mary University of London, we are deeply committed to being an institution that is connected to communities where our work has an impact: from East London to Rio de Janeiro. We strive to create an environment where Queen Mary's research and teaching can be shaped, conducted, and shared, with the public as partners in this process.
Embedding engagement in Queen Mary work generates benefits for everyone involved: for the quality of our research or teaching, for staff and students at Queen Mary, and for our wider community. It helps to better connect the work of the University with society to create social impact.
To support this mission, our Public Engagement team work to embed public and community engagement across all aspects of university life by providing advice and support, reward and recognition, and funding for engaged activities.
The team has a Community Engagement Manager who is a connector between our local communities in East London and Queen Mary researchers, students and projects.
Centre for Creative Collaboration (CfCC)
Since its inception as a ‘People’s Palace’, established in 1887 to provide ‘rational and instructive entertainment’ to the people of East London, Queen Mary has had a long commitment to arts and culture.
The Centre for Creative Collaboration (CfCC) champions interdisciplinary partnerships, bringing together creatives, researchers, community organisations, and students to collaborate on projects that tackle pressing social and cultural issues.
CfCC sustains long term partnerships and collaborations across East London – and the globe – enabling an exchange of knowledge and ideas between people who create arts and culture, people running cultural organisations and people working on research projects across science, medicine and the humanities.