Knowledge Exchange Consultancy

Experienced professionals from a variety of fields that can help enhance and develop your business practice. We have the scale, training and people to help you explore new areas, and do meaningful work in professional development.

About us

We are a professional team which holds the core values of Innovation, Partnership and Continuous Learning. Our highly experienced staff members have knowledge, expertise and specialism in Agile, Project Management, Exercise Physiology, Performance Enhancement, Digital Learning and much more.Logo

To find out more what our team can offer, check out the information below. 

Karl Royle is an Agile Practitioner, Scrum Alliance certified Scrum Professional, and Product Owner with expertise in teacher education and post-digital learning design. He has experience in project direction using agile methods and research design and direction. 

Areas of specialism

  • Agile - Scrum and Kanban - training and organisational implementation in the public sector
  • Digital learning and curriculum innovation
  • Research and development project direction
  • Impact evaluation and change specialist
  • Lean canvas business development and value realisation

Areas of experience

  • Agile - 10 years working with various clients 
  • Learning design for print and screen-based media 15 years
  • Teacher Education 20 years
  • Research project management 15 years
  • Experienced international project leader - Sub Saharan Africa - Middle East - Western Balkans - Europe

The services he can offer are:

  • Agile training and agile organisational transformation
  • Impact evaluation process and design including theories of change development
  • Learning design for collaborative and problem-based learning
  • Research project design, development
  • Open space - facilitation organisational change process events events

Sean Starr is the Head of Academic Business Development in the Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing. 

Areas of specialism

  • Research design
  • Project support
  • Impact evaluation and change specialist
  • Business development and impact evaluation
  • Developing a continuous improvement philosophy

Areas of experience

  • Compulsory and High education
  • Governance
  • School improvement and effectiveness
  • Teacher Education
  • Research design and project management

The services he can offer are:

  • Research design and project development
  • Consultancy
  • Bespoke Professional Development programmes

Matthew Wyon is a Professor in Dance Science and the course leader for the Professional Doctorate in Health and Wellbeing and the Director of Studies for a number of dance science and medicine doctoral candidates.

Areas of specialism

  • Strength and Conditioning for dance and field sports
  • Periodisation of training programmes, especially vocational dance institutions
  • Vitamin D and performance enhancement

Areas of experience

  • Exercise physiology
  • Strength and Conditioning

Industry-related certifications

Strength and Conditioning

The services he can offer are:

  • Fitness testing
  • S&C programmes
  • Training programme consultancy

Ross Cloak is an Associate Professor in Sport and Exercise Science. His primary research interest is exercise physiology, sports performance, and youth sport. As well as working as a consultant physiologist to GB Judo on the lead-up to Rio and Tokyo Olympics, and a number of track and endurance athletes.

Areas of specialism 

  • Sport and Exercise Science
  • Exercise Physiology
  • Strength and conditioning

Areas of experience

  • Exercise/Consultant physiology 
  • Performance enhancement
  • Injury prevention

The services he can offer are:

  • Body composition
  • VO2 max
  • Threshold tests 
  • Training for altitude
  • Bespoke performance sessions

John Traxler is a Professor of Digital Learning at the Institute of Education. He is a Founding Director of the International Association for Mobile Learning. 

Areas of specialism 

  • Digital learning
  • E-learning - focussed on disadvantage and development

Areas of experience

  • Small-scale interventions
  • Large-scale deployments
  • Research design
  • Research QA
  • Impact working with consortia, ministries, and international agencies
    several countries in Sub Saharan Africa and the Middle East plus assorted others

The services he can offer are:

  • Consultancy (reports, reviews, landscape studies, policy briefs, interpretative and systematic literature reviews, opinion pieces, advice, mentoring, building consortia

Matthew Smith is a senior lecturer in Primary Education. He leads on English modules for both undergraduate and postgraduate.

Areas of specialism

  • Primary education
  • Literacy - phonics, poetry
  • Pupil voice, dialogue, facilitation of learning experience, a transformation of education from knowledge retention to agency and competence
  • Teacher education
  • Pedagogy
  • Digital and mobile learning
  • Digital literacy
  • Research methods

Areas of experience 

  • Primary education
  • HE
  • Teacher education
  • Research
  • Project planning and support
  • Research supervision
  • Writing-up

Industry-related certifications

  • EdD
  • SEDA Digital Transformations
  • SFHEA

The services he can offer are:

  • Support - particularly in schools - for small-scale research projects
  • Research supervision
  • Literacy consultancy - phonics, poetry
  • Transformative educational theory and praxis

Dr Martin Bollard is the Head of Nursing Institute of Health and former President of the Intellectual Disability Section at the Royal Society of Medicine. Martin has worked in practice and leadership roles for 15 years in the National Health Service, held 3 University appointments over the last 20 years and has published his work in peer reviewed journals.

Areas of specialism

  • Intellectual/Learning Disability
  • Human Centred/Co Design Methods (health and social care challenges)
  • Inclusive methodology with vulnerable people

Areas of experience 

  • Learning disability research
  • Health and social care system design
  • Project Management
  • Coaching
  • UG/PG Research Teaching Frameworks
  • NHS, HEI

Industry-related certifications

  • PhD
  • CMI Coaching
  • Registered Nurse/Community Nurse People with Intellectual Disability
  • SFHEA

The services he can offer are:

  • Consultancy
  • Co-design/Co-production
  • Human Centred Design
  • Support for small scale projects

 

Meet the team

For further information about our experience, qualifications and research interests, please visit our staff profiles below.

Karl Royle      Photo of Dr Sean Starr      Matthew Wyon         

  Dr Karl Royle                                 Dr Sean Starr                                Professor Matthew Wyon                          

Ross Cloak     John Traxler     Matthew Smith

 Dr Ross Cloak                                 Professor John Traxler                 Dr Matthew Smith

Dr Martin Bollard

Dr Martin Bollard