Our strategy
Discover what drives and inspires us, including our purpose, vision, goals, values and more.
Key to our success
- We inspire excellence to achieve the remarkable and build an inclusive world.
- Our people are our university; they are at the heart of everything we do and the impact we make on a local to global scale.
- We create and share new knowledge to find answers to the greatest challenges facing humanity. Our people inspire and empower one another to apply their knowledge to transform lives.
- We are committed to excellence in all we do. Our impact stems from the combined power of our excellence in education, research, and knowledge exchange and enterprise; our people harness this to achieve the remarkable.
- We strive for greater inclusivity in our community, as diversity is a strength. It makes us more creative and accelerates our impact on society. Through partnership, we aim to inspire communities working with us locally and globally to change the world for the better.
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Our valuesOur values provide the lens through which we make decisions, guiding our actions, collective behaviours and systems. -
Our triple helix approachFind out more about our triple helix approach, and how our education, research and knowledge exchange and enterprise are already distinctively intertwined.
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Our goalsFind out more about how we intend on achieving our shared vision and purpose.
Monitoring our success
Our vision and values have a perpetual, unending quality. To monitor our success an initial five-year set of measures have been identified.
Success will be Southampton positioned as a top 10 UK and towards a top 50 internationally recognised university by the academic year 2027 to 2028.
Supporting strategic plans will contain detailed key performance indicators.
We also recognise that not everything that is important to us can be measured. Therefore, we will continually review our indicators to make sure we monitor the right things to get a true representation of our success.