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Supporting the GLLEP’s ambitions for the

Greater Lincolnshire Agri-food sector

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• A satellite campus in the heart of the largest

concentration of Food businesses in the UK.

• Joined with Riseholme HE Agriculure - cementing

Agriculture and Food

• Talent Pipeline – Academy family

• Established in 2001 now has a student population

of 11,722 and 1331 staff.

• Top 50 University with Top 40 ambitions –

international kudos whist committed to working

with local partners to advance business and the

community

The University of Lincoln

The National Centre for Food Manufacturing

Riseholme Campus

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The structure of the College of Science

College of Science

School of Life Sciences

School of Chemistry

School of Mathematics

School of Computer

Science

School of Engineering

School of Pharmacy

National Centre for Food

Manufacturing

Department for

Agriculture

Lincoln Business School

- Joint working

• 7 Schools

• Highly collaborative

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Supporting the Food Industry with skills and innovation

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NCFM – developing the industry’s talent

– exclusively part-time learning

• Working with employers and partners (Employment & Skills

Board, NSA , sector bodies etc.) to raise skills levels

• Specialising in part-time flexible courses for food industry

professionals, offering seamless progression:

– Functional Skills, Apprenticeships, Foundation Degrees, BSc (Honours)

in Food Manufacture, post graduate and short course offer

• Supporting 2,500 employees from 300 businesses each year

• Riseholme team – Agronomy and Crop Science e.g. BASIS Veg

• Helping to engage young people with the sector

– strategic partnership - a pipeline for new talent

– Lincoln UTC (University Technical College)

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Progression Route

Doctorate

MSc by Research

M.Phil

Food Science/Technology

BSc in Food Manufacturing

(Technical or Operations Management Pathway )

Foundation Degree in Food

Manufacture

(Technical or Operations

Management Pathway)

Level 4 Higher Apprenticeship in Food Manufacturing

(Technical or Operations Management pathway)

Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship in Food

Manufacturing (Technical or Operations pathway)

Level 2 Apprenticeship in Food Manufacturing

(Technical or Operations pathway)

BSc

Direct

Entry

Executive MBA

Example of our

complementary

short course

Masters Level Units

Level 2 and 3 Programmes

Food Safety

HACCP

Health and Safety

Sensory Evaluation

Auditing and more

Level 4 and 5 Programmes

Managing Food Safety

HACCP

Sensory Evaluation

Allergen Management

Food Microbiology

Hygiene Management

Lean Manufacturing

Business and Financial Management

Career Route

TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT CAREER PATHS

AT THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR FOOD MANUFACTURING

Technical Director

Technical Manager

Quality Manager

Technical Assistant

Quality Assurance

Assistant

Quality Assurance/

Apprentice or

Assistant

Operations

Director

Operations

Manager

Production

Manager

Production

Supervisor

Production

Operative

Apprentice or

Assistant

Development / NPD roles

Sales / Marketing Roles

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NCFM enjoys outstanding resources

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NCFM – innovation with employers

• BRC standard food factory, pilot plant, cutting-edge automation

• The Processing and Packaging Machinery Association (PPMA)

as partners

• Partnering with FRPERC (Food Refrigeration & Process Engineering Research Group) from the Grimsby Institute

• Research areas:– sustainable manufacturing and food engineering

– packaging and new product development

– Sensory science and new product development

– Food Safety, Microbiological assessment and process validation

• Working with the Technology Strategy Board and

Food Standards Agency

• Increasing joint working with Schools of Engineering,

Computer Science and Chemistry

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Research Projects at NCFM -

examples• Industry – various businesses- Microbiological/Sensory Science

• FSA – Effile Poultry and Mechanically Separated Meat (with

FRPERC)

• TSB – Assessing Quality in Mushrooms by Rapid Odour

Measurement (Monaghan Mushrooms, Potato Council, others )

• TSB – FILMS Packaging innovation (Bakkavor, M & S, others)

• TSB – Steam Infusion (Olympus Automation and partners)

• ERDF - LCC - Sustain 2 – innovation and process improvement

for sustainability in Lincolnshire’s food and engineering sectors

• FP7 - PicknPack – robotics – European consortium led by

Manchester University with Wageningen as partners

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College of Science Research Centres

and Groups supporting Agri-food

• Research Centres –

Laboratory of Vision Engineering – specialising in the

capture, transmission, processing and understanding of image

and other high dimensional data

Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems – specialises in the

integration of perception, learning, decision-making and

control capabilities in autonomous systems e.g. mobile robots

and smart devices

Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre – focused on

research at the interface between computer science and social

behavior

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University Research Centres & Groups

working with the Food Industry

Research Groups:

Agri-Food Technology Research Group – robotics and machine

intelligence for agri-food (Ishida, PGRO, Potato Council, Frontier,

Branston, Househam Sprayers)

Analytical Chemistry Research Group - new analytical methods

/techniques with wide applications (Olympus Automation – starch)

Industrial Power and Energy Group – energy systems,

bioenergy and biomass, automation and control (Kinerton

Chocolate)

Laser and Photonics Engineering Group -application of lasers

for materials processing - (Bakkavor, Marel, M&S)

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Supporting the GLLEP’s ambition

through research – direction of travel

• World leading capability in Agri-Food Technology – robotics,

control and intelligence with applications across the supply

chain

• Focus on fresh produce

• Active in a range of other areas – e.g. energy, environment,

biodiversity, bio-sensing, water, food safety, packaging

• Business School – active in the area of Food Supply Chains

• Partnering with other universities and specialist institutes

• NCFM as the platform for the University’s engagement in

research with the Agri-food/Fresh Produce sector

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Supporting the GLLEP’s Agri-food

ambition for skills - direction of travel • NCFM – pivotal to the development of Higher Level skills

• Specialising in part-time education - continued enhancement of

the offer e.g. Fresh Produce career paths with Agriculture,

Logistics and Supply Chain with the Business School

• Aim - renowned nationally as the first choice for part-time

career development and professional updating - esteemed with

and in competition with Campden in the technical short course

market and in our own league in the part-time degree market

• Partnering to complement the Agricultural offer e.g. Warwick

• Working with the ESB to develop the Agri-food Skills Strategy

and with FE Colleges, the Academy and Schools to fuel the

talent pipeline