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Monitoring and boosting educational gain and transformational growth through our curriculum, enabling students to curate their development, gaining essential transferable skills reinforced by micro-credentials to strengthen their skills for employment.

Ensuring our students’ journey develops and empowers them to succeed as highly employable graduates by incorporating real and simulated work-based learning in every course, including employing significant numbers of students, directly and via partners.

Redesigning our curriculum to connect students with local, regional and global challenges through cross-disciplinary credit-bearing modules, boosting research engagement, and expanding problem-based learning​.

Enabling all students to engage with transformational education while balancing study, work and life, through a culture of innovation and inclusion that recognises and supports the changing needs of our students.

Connecting and inspiring our colleagues and students in an ambitious and inclusive research community. Building critical mass and resilience in our identified areas of strength by attracting, developing and retaining excellent researchers and by further embedding nationally-recognised good practice.

Supporting growth in our world-leading research by establishing new research centres and institutes and nurturing existing ones, to promote the engagement, collaboration and impact of our researchers. Our internal systems will support our growth ambitions, including targeted support for large research bids.

Building new and developing existing collaborative connections with regional, national, global partners and business, to rapidly expand the positive impact of our research and innovation on society.

Applying our research and innovation strengths to solving national and global societal and economic challenges including environmental sustainability and supporting coastal communities.

Being a university-of-choice by collaborating with stakeholders, including government and employers, to proactively identify and respond to future workforce and skills needs regionally, nationally and globally.

Becoming a premier health-science provider, meeting regional and national needs through new course developments and research supported by strong connections with stakeholders.

Expanding our high quality educational opportunities to new markets through transnational education (TNE) provision offered with partners in target countries.

Introducing new approaches to connecting with employers to significantly expand our range of employer-focused qualifications including Degree Apprenticeships and continuing professional development.

Partnering with local schools and colleges to realise students’ future potential and increase progression rates to higher education from under-represented communities.

Creating an inclusive community where our students and people feel a strong sense of belonging and well-being, supported by our range of student and staff services.

Expanding work-based learning and student volunteering, focusing on initiatives that improve outcomes for our local and regional community.

Supporting business and government stakeholders to boost economic growth, including through business support, incubator activities and student enterprise.

Engaging our people through our vision and values, connecting their individual objectives, workloads, recognition and reward with this strategy.

Promoting diversity and inclusion and empowering our people to develop in their careers, upskilling in digital and transferable skills plus continuing professional development (CPD).

Embedding our commitment to the student voice throughout the University to ensure we meet students’ needs & expectations.

Developing a welcoming and integrated physical and digital campus to promote an inclusive, engaged and connected community.

Developing lean, effective services that focus on collaborative strategy delivery.

Promoting a connected and collegiate problem-solving approach, including partners and suppliers, to support continuous improvement.

Investing in corporate systems and the modern workplace to drive effectiveness and cost-savings.

Improving data-driven insight to inform timely and effective decision-making.

Investing in our Estate Masterplan to provide a modern, efficient estate that supports our strategy.

Focusing on environmental sustainability in our decision making and operations.

Strong financial management to ensure long term financial stability and internal alignment of resources with strategic needs.

Targeting sufficient levels of cash generation to reinvest in our long-term strategy, infrastructure and estate.