Business, Government, Non-Profit and Industry
ConsultUCD offers a dedicated consultancy service to provide you with facilitated access to UCD’s world-class academics and state-of-the-art equipment. Our academics, from all disciplines, can support you with:
- Technical and innovative advice
- Strategic initiatives and planning
- Expert reports and opinions
- Development of bespoke training
Consultancy projects provide an easy, low-risk route for you to engage with UCD. We can help your organisation to find answers to complex or technical questions that might be costly or difficult to address in other ways. Whether you require support for a one-off project or a longer-term collaboration, we can provide access and simplify the engagement process.
Consulting supports UCD’s strategy and enhances society by applying our expertise to specific challenges and creates opportunity, employment and wealth.
See examples of some of our recent projects below.
Evaluate: Irish Tillage Sector
Client Sector
Agriculture
Project Context:
The clients commissioned Prof Michael Wallace, a UCD agriculture economist, to do a comprehensive evaluation of the Irish tillage sector.
Services and Expertise Provided:
- Review of key trends in supply chain activity
- Modelling to estimate direct and indirect output and employment supported by the sector
- Assessment of the tillage sector’s potential contribution to addressing Ireland’s climate targets
- Advise on how the economic performance and contribution of the sector might be enhanced
Result / Outcome:
- A concise final report
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Assess: Energy behaviour of hybrid car
Client Sector:
Motor manufacturer
Project Context:
The client was looking to highlight the potential role for hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) in addressing issues relating to fuel usage, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and localised air pollution in city areas.
Services and Expertise Provided:
- Create methodology, define test protocol
- Develop of app to gather data
- Run trials using a representative sample of the driving population to gain insight into vehicle performance characteristics
- Data post-processing - clustering according to route type, age, gender, congestion
Result / Outcome:
- A report detailing the findings of the assessment
Advise: COVID-19 health and safety
Client Sector:
Distribution
Project Context:
The client contacted UCD looking to find a virologist who could advise them on how they could disinfect workspaces effectively to protect their business against COVID-19.
Services and Expertise Provided:
- Complete review of existing prevention and disinfection processes
- A full explanation of the risks associated with COVID-19
- A breakdown of what systems and procedures should be put in place to minimise risk to the business from end to end.
Result / Outcome:
- A series of practical recommendations for the warehouse that could be quickly and easily implemented to reduce the possibility of Covid-19 contamination and dissemination.
- A final report for the management team.
Our client said: “Thank you very much for the excellent report and for all the suggestions you have made”
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