Transforming our University to be a truly digital community

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Our innovative use of digital technologies will be critical to our future approach to education, research and engagement. We will provide innovative digital learning platforms for our students, staff and alumni and will improve our connectivity with partners. Digital enhancement will deliver highly effective, efficient, digitally-enabled ways of working for our students and staff which will allow us to create more choice and flexibility.

Our use of digital technology for research with impact is already at the cutting edge in many areas, not least in health informatics, and we will invest further in the capabilities, infrastructure, environment and training to enable the full benefits of the data revolution to be realised at our University.

Our approach to digital innovation will be ethical, accessible, inclusive, accountable, critical, and reflective.  

We will:

  • ensure that the student experience and student journey remain uppermost in our priorities
  • invest in the skills of our staff and students to enable them to make the most of digital enhancement
  • use a “digital first” approach to delivering solutions for research, education and engagement rather than simply digitising existing practices
  • focus on achieving the right outcomes rather than implementing specific technologies
  • embrace digital technologies that will support our institutional commitment to the ‘just transition’ and delivering Net Zero ahead of 2045 
  • support this through a creating and delivering an enabling strategy for digital

These actions will ensure that we are adapting and shaping the digitally-transformed world so as to better meet the expectations of our students, staff and wider society.

View our enabling strategy on digital