The University of Northampton is well known for its teaching and research with and for the lift industry. In this piece we introduce a new department and find out about what the links to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Changemaker are.

“The University of Northampton is a designated global Changemaker Campus, one of only 50 in the world. We believe anyone can make a unique contribution to creating a better world, transforming lives, and inspiring change. We work together with our industry partners to make a positive social, environmental, cultural, and financial impact. We collaborate in our heritage areas, in particular the leather and lift industries, drawing on specialist knowledge from global leading professors. We bring together industry, with its talent, experience and know-how and academia, with its research, knowledge and expertise to solve problems and develop ideas.

At the heart of this is our Centre for Advanced Technologies, a research centre that exemplifies our approach. The ICLT responds to scientific and technological needs of industries including the lift, engineering, construction and manufacturing industries. The Centre supports them with their business goals alongside bringing solutions to societal imperatives of sustainability and social value.”