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Our strategies

About our strategies

Our purpose is to use the power of our education and research to create a sustainable, healthy and socially just future.

A number of strategies underpin and support Strategy 2030. These supporting strategies outline how we will build on our strong interdisciplinary culture to:

  • Lead meaningful action against the climate emergency and ecological crisis.
  • Make key breakthroughs to transform human health and wellbeing.
  • Lead the progress towards creating a fair, socially just and inclusive society. 

Supporting strategies

Our sovereign strategies lead and direct our core activities to achieve our vision for the University.

Education Strategy 2019 – 2025

The Education Strategy details how we will deliver an internationally exceptional educational experience for our students and enable them to make a positive difference in the world. We will deliver this through the provision of research-inspired learning, the development of employability, empowering and engaging learners, and multi-disciplinary learning. The Success for All programme plays an important role in delivering key elements of the strategy to build an inclusive educational environment.

Global Strategy 2018 - 2022

The overarching aim of our Global Strategy 2018-2022 is to raise the University’s international reputation and support our move from being a top UK university to a truly global university. The Strategy defines how we will create a global culture and broaden international partnerships across our research and education. It supports all of the University’s strategies because their success will depend in part upon how global we are as an institution.

Research and Impact Strategy

Our research advances knowledge, discoveries and solutions to respond to local, national and global social, economic and environmental challenges. Entering the new decade, our Research and Impact Strategy‌, will bring together people to provide sustainable solutions to todays and tomorrow’s challenges. This will be underpinned and enhanced by our research culture which is open, inclusive, inspiring and ethical.