We co-design our approach and bring people together for a clear purpose, we synthesise different forms of knowledge and turn thinking into practical next steps.
Strategy, Futures and Investment
Examples of our commissions include working with…
A Senior Vice-Principal to support the development of a new institutional strategy.
Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, to undertake a market assessment and co-develop a new strategy for degree apprenticeships.
The strategic advisory board and leadership team of Hi-ACT to support their UKRI mid-term review and explore future scenarios and responses to a changing strategic context.
The board and leadership of a university spin-out to develop its strategy and explore further opportunities for commercialisation.
A Vice-Principal for Research and Knowledge Exchange to develop a new research strategy and business case for a Grand Challenges Programme.
A post-92 institution to undertake a market assessment for executive and professional education, bootcamps and degree apprenticeships, supporting income diversification.
Heads of School to develop discipline-specific research, learning and teaching strategies.
Research and institutional leaders to gather requirements for a proposed major investment in research infrastructure and skills supporting innovation across TRLs 1–9.
…and working with leading researchers to make the case for:
Institutional investment in spatial biology.
Pan-institutional integration and development of imaging capability.
Executive and professional education that engages Arts and Humanities.
Establishing a consulting offer to build trust in Nature Markets.
Major UKRI grant proposals, supporting Principal Investigators and industry partners seeking funding from EPSRC, MRC, ESRC and NERC.
“I have no hesitation whatsoever in fully recommending Lucidity Services Limited. I have been to numerous high-level research strategy meetings at both national and international level and can confirm that [they] provide amongst the best meeting facilitation and strategic advice I have come across”
Leadership Development, Capability Building, Cross-Sector Collaboration
Examples of our commissions include:
Mentoring and providing top team facilitation for a new Vice Chancellor stepping into institutional leadership.
Mentoring of an Executive Director of Professional Services moving institutions.
Design and delivery of a major leadership development programme at a leading Russell Group university for academic and professional service leaders on effective strategy execution.
Co-design and direction of capability building for Systems Thinking in Practice for the MACC hub working with leaders from over 40 different organisations in England, Wales, NI and Scotland including devolved government, local authorities, healthcare, and the private sector.
Working with PI’s to explore opportunities for strategic collaboration between major UKRI funded programmes.
Support for a PI to foster creative practices between researchers and industry partners to maximise the potential applications of research.
Co-directing a number of MOOCs and micro-credentials to build capability for climate action and mitigation. These include climate and carbon literacy, systems thinking for sustainable decision making, climate justice, the circular economy.
“You clearly have extensive experience of complex organisations and can effectively combine empathy with, and challenge to, a senior team. I have no hesitation in making the strongest recommendation to future clients”
Organisational design and development
Examples of our commissions include:
Institutional operating model choices for a post’92 teaching-led, research-active university
Review of academic, professional services, and technicial staff culture
Development of an impact and engagement strategy for the Energy Demand Research Centre
Development of a theory of change/logic model for the staff and trustees of a not for profit organisation.
Development of a monitoring, evaluation, and learning framework for the UKRI funded knowledge exchange Hub
Review and organisational development support for a quantum technology nano-fabrication unit.
Strategy and operational blueprint for a pan-institutional research centre.
Leadership and organisational development support for trans-disciplinary research leaders.
“We very much appreciate the quality of the collaboration with Lucidity”