Vision 2015: One Year On
Where are we with the strategy?
And what next?
Nigel Thrift
Format
• How the Strategy is unfolding
• How do we get the rest of the
way?
• Why? Warwick as a Demonstrator
How the Strategy is Unfolding
Research
• Highly cited up from 5 to 10
• Additional 40 postgraduate
research students in 2008/2009
• Wolfson Research Exchange
• Appointment of new staff (55 new
professors in the last 15 months)
• Institute of Advanced Study up and
running
• Interdisciplinary collaborations (e.g.
Security, International Finance)
• REF preparations (citations)
Research Income
• Up 27% in one year
• Academic departments are more clearly
articulating the benefits and incentives of
enhanced research activity and income
• We will need better exploitation of our
research
• Collaborative opportunities through
international, national and regional
initiatives e.g. Birmingham Science City
Teaching
• Quality Assurance Agency Audit –
positive initial response
• New Learning, Teaching and
Assessment Enhancement Strategy
• New pedagogical approaches delivery and use of space
• Response to National Student Survey
• Innovation Fund - Some funding
available for 08/09 for projects
relating to goals
International Links
• Pursuing deep links with overseas universities
• Link with Boston University launched in Boston by John
Denham earlier this year
• Other links in progress:
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Irvine (US)
Monash (Australia)
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Sciences Po (France)
Jawaharlal Nehru University (India)
Fudan (China)
• The next wave…..
Growing International Profile
• Institute of Advanced Study
• IGGY launched:
– IGGY Summer U (Warwick)
– IGGY Winter U (Singapore)
• Warwick Prize for Writing
• Warwick Commission 2 now
recruiting commissioners
• Digital University Press
New buildings are vital
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Clinical Trials Unit
Science Site
WBS Expansion
Digital Laboratory (phase 2)
Zeeman Building (phase 2)
Medical Building
Milburn House – ongoing development
SU South Rebuild
Arts Centre
Nursery
Indoor Tennis Centre
Clinical Trials Unit
Proposed Science
site,
central campus
Proposed boundary
WBS – 3B
Nursery
Indoor Tennis Centre
Energy Efficiency
• Campaign to reduce
unnecessary energy usage
• ‘Green’ projects e.g. wind
turbines, thermal energy
storage, more recycling
facilities
• New buildings more energy
efficient (BREEAM standard)
• Green procurement
• Further introduction of
metering and LEDs
Development Income
• New Director of Development being
appointed
• DARO being re-organised
• Collaborative PGR Scholarships
• Warwick Arts Centre
(Butterworth Hall Campaign)
• ‘Warwick Match’ Scheme
Commercial Income
• Complimentary commercial
ventures
• New types of commercial
activities on campus to
generate required income
• Examples:
– Jobs.ac.uk in the US
– Unitemps franchise
– Restructuring catering
provision
Culture
• A more open, more supportive culture
• Food and drink
• New series of events aimed at
social & intellectual integration
eg. Ideas Cafe
Environment
• A more integrated, less stark landscape
• New build at Students’ Union and Arts Centre will help
(piazza as a cultural hub)
• Landscape features: public art, sequoias, maze, etc.
• Big campaign on Gibbet Hill
How do we get the
rest of the way?
The Challenge
• Forbidding financial climate
• Difficult times for the sector
• Past success has been based on diversity
of income streams
• We need to be clear about our core
activities – what is it that we must protect?
• We will no longer be able support
activities which are not excellent
People
• Our people are a key
differentiator
• Investments in staff
– Staff numbers up 1.3% in 12 months
– Staff Pay - real terms increase (up
19%)
• Staff development and training:
– Annual Review
– Succession planning & talent
spotting
– Improving safety & staff well-being
• PULSE 2
Income Generation
• Further growth in research income
• Development income – crucial to
continued growth
• More competitive approach to commercial
income
• Maintaining diversity of income
streams
Your ideas
• Next stage of innovation to take the Strategy
forward
• Innovation Awards – the big ideas for income
generation
• Importance of everyday improvement and
opportunism
• Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Surgeries –
opportunity for one-to-one dialogue
University of Warwick Turnover
(since foundation in 1964)
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250,000
University of Warwick Turnover
(including forecast growth from 2007)
800,000
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100,000
2014
2012
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500,000
Why? Warwick as a
Demonstrator
Warwick
• An example of how to do something distinctive in
British HE
• Innovative/experimental
• Accelerated development
• Truly outward facing (global ambitions)
• Ultimate Point: A different funding model for
Warwick
Remember who the competition is!
California San Diego
Duke
Johns
Hopkins
UBC
Thank You