University of Lincoln
🇬🇧 United Kingdom

The National Centre for Food Manufacturing (NCFM) are also committed to helping the sector research and innovate, working with employers and partners towards this goal, aided by our partnership with leading equipment suppliers and our outstanding specialist facilities, food factory, and cutting-edge automation. Progressing high impact food sector focused research designed to advance the industry at all points in the supply chain.  Current initiatives include: digitalisation of the food sector to optimise productivity and advance quality assurance; industry focused carbon net zero and sustainability agendas; application of analytical techniques that unlock specific challenges of food quality, safety and nutritional performance. NCFM have the expertise, laboratory & factory facilities, and extensive industry and academic networks, to engage at all Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) from fundamental / basic research through to full scale commercialisation.

Research is typically supported by funding sources such as UKRI (particularly Innovate UK, EPSRC and BBSRC), private business, and a range of EU, National and Regional funding initiatives. Projects can be specific work for one client, through to large scale multi-partner collaborative projects

NCFM is dedicated to helping food industry employees advance their careers. Understanding the demands of studying while working in this fast-moving and dynamic industry, our part-time apprenticeships and distance-learning provision enables flexible study for those working across a range of areas. The University of Lincoln is placed in RateMyApprenticeship’s Best 50 Training Providers 2022-2023 and Food Sciences at Lincoln is ranked 1st in the UK for overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2022. There are also a range of Masters and PhD researchers advancing food sector science and technologies.

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