Give Back to QBS

We welcome business experts to deliver guest lectures or masterclasses to our student body. This opportunity is great for personal development, improving public speaking, accessing our students before graduation, and highlighting your company and industry to students as a potential career.

Additionally, it brings life to our course curriculum and motivates students to hear and learn from successful industry professionals and their real-life, practical experiences.

Businesses are invited to support prizes for outstanding student achievements including academic excellence in exams and dissertations, and exemplary performance in industry placements.

Benefits of supporting

• Gain direct access to our top student talent
• Invest in the future of your industry
• Build awareness of your company within our student body
• Create a partnership with Queen's Business School
• Identify suitable candidates for future employment vacancies 
• Opportunity to network with our student body and academic experts

Philanthropic gifts to Queen’s Business School are received via the The Queen’s University of Belfast Foundation, an independent charity set up to receive and steward philanthropic donations and corporate sponsorships on behalf of the University in the UK, offering a variety of tax-efficient giving options. 

A recent major donation of £1m to the School has greatly supported the development of new innovative campus facilities at Riddel Hall.

As a member of the Bright Future Collective, your company will partner with Queen’s to give talented young people, who face additional barriers in life, the opportunity to fulfil their potential through higher education.

Members will be invited to connect with current and prospective students involved with the Pathway Opportunity Programme, a widening access initiative developed by Queen’s, which engages with approximately 250 young people across Northern Ireland each year.

At Queen's Business School we have external sponsorship opportunities available for events and initiatives that align with our brand. In the past we have sponsored the CIPD NI Awards, the VAVA Awards, and the Business Eye Awards.

If you are interested in discussing QBS sponsorship of an award, event, or other type of initiative, please contact Director of Business Engagement, Julie McCandless on j.mccandless@qub.ac.uk.