Key areas of intervention
To deliver on our growth ambitions, we will focus on key areas of intervention by placing students at the core of our strategy; championing collaboration and interdisciplinarity in research to drive innovation; enhancing our external engagement and visibility locally and globally. We will align our resources strategically to ensure excellence, sustainability and impact while fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and forward-thinking academic environment for staff and students.
- Review and enhance our curricula, update programmes, and develop new provision, responding to students’ needs, and feedback from industry stakeholders. Working with Keele’s partner colleges we will develop programmes that provide routes into higher education for the local community.
- Improve retention and progression through targeted, early interventions, and providing the academic and pastoral support students need to thrive on their course.
- Using the University curriculum expectations, graduate attributes and the I-D-E-A framework we will ensure that we:
- Embed the University’s Inclusive Education Framework across all our education provision and through this building a supportive environment and a sense of community, equity, and opportunity.
- Build more digital learning into our programmes, supporting analytical social sciences to align with the skills needs of the UK and international economies.
- Secure the professional accreditations that assure the quality and robustness of our programmes.
- Provide work-based and experiential learning in all programmes, sustaining and growing partnerships and placements, helping our graduates to succeed in life.
- Grant credit bearing personal and professional development opportunities for all students.
- Enhance teaching practice and support staff to undertake development programmes and obtain recognition (e.g. HEA fellowship; discipline specific accreditation).
- Increase research income through three distinct, school-specific funding strategies with defined KPIs.
- Enhance the quality of our research outputs and overall REF performance through the established pre-publication review.
- Implement our Impact Strategy to support ICS authors and boost stakeholder engagement for impact case studies.
- Cultivate a strong, cohesive, open and inclusive research culture which supports people at different career stages.
- Foster a vibrant, collaborative and cross-disciplinary environment for our PGRs to thrive academically and professionally.
- Implement our Enhanced Research Allocation Scheme (ERAS) to strategically support research excellence.
- Build strategic partnerships that speak to Schools’ priorities, are high-quality and equitable.
- Offer a learning and social experience that engages with international and partnership students as equals by decentring pedagogical and organisational processes.
- Prepare our students to thrive in a global world by strategically deploying the Turing scheme to design and fund mobility options.
- Nurture and increase international research by building research partnerships with partners worldwide, to grow our research profile and to improve research outputs.
- Increase our engagement with alumni to build our reputation in countries and regions which are of strategic importance to the Faculty’s internationalisation ambitions.
- Inspire more students from the local area to choose Keele through strategic cooperation with schools and colleges, raising participation and aspiration in Staffordshire.
- Facilitate diverse means of entry to Higher Education, including top-up programmes, continuous professional development, and online study.
- Review, enhance, and increase our engagement and recruitment activities to signal Keele’s openness to learners from all backgrounds.
- Evolve a diverse and personalised approach to Apprenticeships and on-the-job training, based on employer and student needs.
- Develop a people strategy for professional development and capacity building.
- Set clear expectations for all staff, annually set and review objectives that are aligned to Faculty and School strategies.
- Reduce the academic gender pay gap.
- Support staff retention and improve job satisfaction.
- Implement and review the academic staff mentoring scheme.
- Embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in all activities and processes.
- Devise a space strategy that fosters an inclusive and dynamic environment.
- Foster an agile culture in our Professional Services team, optimising opportunities for efficiency and innovation and ensuring alignment with strategic and operational objectives.
