OUR STRENGTHS
OUR COMMITMENTS
Our University has many strengths that have contributed to our success to date and which we are committed to protecting and enhancing. In particular, there are a number of distinguishing features that are hallmarks of our community. • We are a warm, welcoming and family-centred community. Our people are at the heart of our organisation and we value their health and wellbeing. We hold an Athena SWAN silver award and are also recognised by Athena SWAN and Stonewall for our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusivity • Our consistent UK Top 10 position for student satisfaction is supported by our safe, caring environment and our commitment to enhancing students’ employability through opportunities to travel, undertake placements, and gain new skills
• We are a research-led University, ranking among the UK’s top 10 universities for balancing excellent teaching with excellent research, as demonstrated by our Teaching Excellence Framework Gold Award and UK Top 30 performance in REF2014 • We were founded by industry, for industry and our research has economic and societal impact. We are one of the UK’s leading industry-intensive universities (HE-BCI 2018) and have a deserved reputation for innovation and collaboration • We are proud to be a University for Wales, promoting our Welsh heritage, language and culture, as well as the role we play in shaping the economic and social life of our region and country
Our strengths are the foundations for our future success. As we embark on our second century we have identified the following overarching commitments that will define our University in the years ahead. • The climate crisis remains society’s biggest threat. We will align our work to the Sustainable Development Goals and will be a carbon-zero university by 2040 • We will further widen and deepen access to education, promoting lifelong, inclusive and equitable learning opportunities • We will deliver innovative, digitally supported approaches to teaching that are developed in partnership with our students and which help to embed interdisciplinary thinking across our programmes • We will extend our global reach and reputation, becoming a preferred partner for international research, teaching and enterprise collaborations, and moving up the international rankings year on year
• We will work with our partners to make the Swansea Bay City Region the sporting and wellbeing capital of Wales
• We will strengthen our position as one of the UK’s leading, impact-driven, research-intensive institutions, excelling at interdisciplinary and collaborative research, and will establish the first Institute for Advanced Studies in Wales • We will close the gender pay gap and will confront the structural and operational reasons for it and the low proportion of female professors
• We will develop and implement a whole institution approach to tackling racial inequality.
A SECOND CENTURY OF MAKING WAVES
A SECOND CENTURY OF MAKING WAVES
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