Work with students on business projects
Do you have a business task or development opportunity that our students could help you solve? You can access our student talent in the form of a Live Brief.
Join us as a Live Brief partner organisation and let our students help you come up with solutions.
What is a Live Brief and how does it work?
A Live Brief is an opportunity for you to present our students with a real-world task and for them to come up with a fresh and creative solution or ideas that can benefit your organisation.
You specify an activity, project, task or competition based on your needs and expectations, which will form part of our undergraduate students’ compulsory learning. It results in agreed deliverables that students present to you.
A Live Brief gives students the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to a professionally relevant task, and is an integral part of their assessments.
We began running Live Briefs in 2020, and they’re now a core element of around one hundred different undergraduate degree modules.
Live Briefs span a wide range of subjects, from creative arts, law and finance, to computing, construction, psychology and life sciences and many more.
Live Briefs can take many forms - these are just a few examples:
- A market research project
- User experience research
- A plan to raise the profile of your organisation using social media
- Generation of product design options
- Statistical analysis of datasets such as drug discovery databases
- Evidence-based communication and educational resources
- Developing and managing a fundraising event or campaign
- Editing or creating a company newsletter
- Usability testing
How will my organisation benefit?
Live Briefs can help:
- Inject innovative ideas, creativity and fresh thinking from our student community into your organisation
- Raise awareness of your brand or company profile
- Develop a closer partnership between you, our community and our network of stakeholders
- Connect you to future graduate talent
As an organisation that’s keen to support and help develop our students, your commitment and time is very valuable to us and that’s all we ask from you. There’s no financial cost for a Live Brief.
If you have any questions, or an idea for a Live Brief that you would like to discuss further, please contact us at livebriefs@aru.ac.uk
“It's been really exciting for us as an employer to see the dynamism the students have brought to the Live Brief.”
