KTP and the REF
“The KTP with The Falmouth Harbour Commission acted as a catalyst for an impact case study on Sustainability Management in Smaller Ports. Aside from bringing immediate funding to attend conferences and generating new industrial contacts and new insights into industrial practice, the KTP provided a case-study within which to build and test a new methodology. The KTP stimulated REFable seminal papers which we are still building on. Outputs from the KTP helped to build a case for subsequent EU funding for a project to disseminate and adapt the initial methodology. In turn, further research outputs underpinned a successful REF impact case study. Dissemination generated many new industrial contacts and additional journal papers; new visiting speakers, teaching case studies, field visits and research informed teaching; and visits and speakers for professional bodies which all added to the impact of the initial research.”
Professor John Dinwoodie, Professor of Maritime Logistics, Plymouth Graduate School of Management and Plymouth Business School