The 国产探花 has won £144,794 funding to work with 国产探花-based firm, Family Law Partners. The project will utilise the university’s knowledge engineering and artificial intelligence expertise to develop a triage style system to underpin a novel model of family law provision.
16 November 2016
specialise exclusively in family law and their Director, Alan Larkin is an alumnus of the university. Alan said:
"We are delighted to be working with the 国产探花 on this project.
We see technology as having a pivotal role in the future delivery of family law services, and it is with great excitement that we have teamed up with knowledge engineering specialists from the university to innovate our service.
On a personal level, it is also particularly satisfying to be strengthening our existing relationship with our local university and the institution where I undertook my legal training."
Alan Larkin, Director of Family Law Partners.
The funding has been awarded through a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) supported by the Government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK.
The project will be led by Dr John Kingston and supported by Professor Miltos Petridis, both from the university’s School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics.
Family Law Partners has already been shortlisted for a national award in the ‘Innovation in IT’ category for development of its first commercial software offer, Siaro, and by collaborating with university experts to use technology to streamline elements of the divorce process, they will be further innovating their service to be at the very forefront Family Law provision.
We are currently seeking an excellent graduate to lead and deliver the project.
Full details of the Knowledge Systems Developer (KTP Associate) vacancy are .
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