Welcome At BU, we’re passionate about making sure the work we do impacts on the lives of people across the world. We use our global experience to make sure that our research influences global thinking, and the courses and experiences we offer our students develops them as global talent. We are excited about delivering the global vision for BU set out in our Strategic Plan, and look forward to establishing a distinctive Global BU by 2025. We want to share our vision for the future with you. We will deliver this vision through working with industry experts, leading academics, major institutions and organisations, and our own staff and students, to make an impression in Bournemouth that will reverberate around the world. We’d love you to join us on that journey to deliver global traction.
Vice-Chancellor - Professor John Vinney (right), Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) - Dr Sonal Minocha (left).
Fusion: A different way of thinking Creating the most stimulating, challenging and rewarding university experience in a world-class learning community by sharing our unique fusion of excellent education, research and professional practice and inspiring our students, graduates and staff to enrich the world. Bournemouth University Vision (BU 2018)
BU, like every university, has education, research and professional practice at its core. What makes BU stand out is that we blend these core responsibilities so that they don’t operate independently of each other but merge together, influencing, stretching and strengthening the student and staff experience. We call this Fusion. In other words, what we learn through our research influences our curriculum and is shared with industry; this professional practice insight in turn gives us new ideas for research and helps us design and deliver courses that keep our students at the cutting edge. Global BU, and the Global Engagement Plan shared here, is about taking this vision of Fusion around the globe. We want our staff and students to drive global thinking through research, to develop global talent through the educational experience, and to deliver global traction through interactions with employers, policy makers and professional practice. We want our staff and students to make a positive impact on the world and in return help shape a truly Global BU. This is Global Fusion.
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2025 _ A Global BU Embodying Global Fusion as the basis of driving global thinking, developing global talent and delivering global traction.
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To drive Global Thinking by enhancing our portfolio of global research. To develop Global Talent through an educational experience that fuses internationalisation and employability for all our students. To deliver Global Traction across organisations and societies by uniting through our Hubs of Practice the very best of our Global Thinking and Global Talent.
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Our purpose is to shape a Global BU through Global Fusion.
Build a strong portfolio of innovative learning partnerships by becoming a partner of choice.
Invest in the internationalisation of all our staff and create an integrative Global Engagement Team.
Grow, diversify and integrate our on campus overseas students. Enrich our (staff and) student experience through a range of outward and inward mobility programmes. Develop all our students as Global Talent through our curricular and extra-curricular proposition. Engage in international activity that enhances the quality of BU research and its global impact. Innovate our practice in taking Fusion global in partnership with global organisations and global alumni.
Deliver a Global Academic Footprint on and beyond our campus through a Hub based approach. Develop an integrated financial and qualitative performance metric to manage and measure our Global Impact.
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A dedicated space on our campus that is a focal point for the people and organisations involved in taking our vision of Fusion global.
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