“The Industrial Fellowship’s R&D expanded our systems’ range of applications and attracted new customers”
The Royal Commission’s Industrial Fellowship unlocked additional
funding for our Industrial Fellow’s research, which she performed while
working at Leonardo. The funding gave her more freedom to widen her
engagement and bring in new ideas to the project. The Commission’s
support also facilitated flight trials in which the Fellow had
significant input into what specific data was collected and how, freeing
her from needing to rely on data sets from existing trials, ensuring
she could design and obtain tailored inputs for her PhD research plan.
These experiences provided her with valuable insight and ideas that
allowed her to hit the ground running at our company.
Her ongoing work has and will continue to improve the specifications
of our systems and allow them to be employed across a wider range of
applications, thereby attracting new customers.
The Royal Commission also provided support in the Fellow’s attendance
and participation at a number of international conferences and NATO
meetings. These furthered Leonardo’s reputation as being interested in
science and supportive of academia on their own merits. She was even
able to visit a collaborator at the University of Pisa, benefitting her
research and expanding our academic network.
All of the above experiences have allowed the Fellow to rapidly
become and continue to be an integral part of our team beyond her
Fellowship.
We found the Industrial Fellowship to be a mutually beneficial
programme, acting as a springboard for young scientists to create
immediate impact at their companies.
