Enabling Plans
This strategy will be supported by detailed enabling plans, which will be regularly updated, covering:
- Education and the Student Experience.
- Research and Innovation.
- Policy, Impact and Public Engagement.
- Global Engagement.
- Infrastructure (Estates, Equipment and IT).
- Our Faculties
- Professional Services.
- People and Culture.
Financial sustainability
We will ensure that we remain financially sustainable in all that we do.
Given the challenging turbulent funding landscape we must ensure that our University’s finances are carefully managed and that our appetite for risk is appropriate to the environment in which we are working. We must continue to invest in the development of our staff and our infrastructure. As a campus university in London, we have a costly estate and a need to invest in our physical and digital infrastructure to keep pace with and where possible outstrip the expectations of our students and scholars. These investments are carefully planned out over the next 10 years. This will include the development of new buildings, refurbishment and significant maintenance on each of our five London campuses, investment in IT infrastructure, investment in equipment, and investment and expansion of our residential footprint.
We are committed to working with alumni and friends of Queen Mary to help us achieve our ambitions and diversify our income streams. We will expand the use of our estate and make sure our facilities are fully utilised and our campuses vibrant in the evenings and at weekends. Where possible, we will ensure that our campuses and facilities are open to and used by the public. We will also find further efficiencies in the way we run our University, ensure our administration is lean and agile, and make best use of cutting-edge technology to underpin all the work of the University.
Our finances are overseen by our Finance and Investment Sub Committee, which reports to our Executive and to our Council Committees.
Measuring Progress
We will measure our progress via Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) under the following headings:
- People: the lifeblood of this Strategy. We will measure progress with staff engagement, satisfaction, and increasing diversity across our communities.
- Education: one of our two core pillars. We will seek to improve, and measure, equality of attainment, retention, and graduate outcomes.
- Research: the other core pillar. We will seek to improve, and monitor, indicators of quality and volume of research.
We will also monitor these enablers of our Strategy:
- Student recruitment: including our ability to recruit students from currently under-represented groups.
- Resources: our ability to invest in people, infrastructure and systems.
- Reputation: to ensure the world’s perception of Queen Mary is at least equal to our quality.