3. Place

In order to equip the University, our staff and our students for success over the next decade, we will need to focus on how we develop and invest in our campus and infrastructure. We remain committed to the principles of the green economy, defined by the UN as low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive, further embedding our commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, in the way that we work together as a University community.

Underpinned by this commitment, our formal and informal spaces will be reimagined to promote collaboration, support hybrid working and be accessible to all. We will create a sense of belonging across the campus and its spaces. We recognise the importance of place in transformational learning and in facilitating engagement and collaboration. Spaces and technology need to be able to support learning, changing and adapting to the needs of students, staff and visitors.

We will develop our spaces to encourage both action and reflection, enabling us to pause and find balance, recognising that the beauty and functionality of our campus contributes to the wellbeing of everybody who lives and works in it.

We will continue to make progress in the move to a digitally enabled transformation of our processes, practices and services. We will establish the digital infrastructure and teams needed to use data effectively in decision-making processes and to inform our future growth.

We will review our infrastructure and systems to ensure that processes are more streamlined, and bureaucracy and burden are minimised. We will become more efficient and cost-effective in the way in which we work and where appropriate, we will continue to move to a sustainable way of hybrid working which supports the needs of students and staff.