Manchester 2035, promoted by the University’s President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Duncan Ivison, is a decade-long roadmap to tackle ambitious challenges that the university will face, such as quality of teaching and social responsibility.
Described as a “bold new strategy”, Manchester 2035 emphasises collaboration between students, staff, alumni, and partners to create innovative solutions to meet these challenges.
The end goal is to ensure that the university has “transformed the world for the better.”
Manchester 2035 is currently in its “listening and discussing” phase which lasts until January 2025. This phase involves the sharing of ideas that will be discussed at staff and student workshops.
The second phase will start in February next year and will test these ideas.
The third phase, beginning in June 2025, will finalise and publish Manchester 2035’s strategy.
There are five themes up for discussion in phase one:
- Reimagining our student experiences – this theme deals with enhancing the quality of teaching, both in-person and digital, to meet the needs of a larger more diverse student body.
- Becoming one university – this theme seeks to transform the university into one connected community, through making processes more consistent and creating shared goals.
- Accelerating our research impact – this theme aims to produce internationally renowned research to attract the best talent and increase funding. This would be achieved by drawing upon the university’s wealth of pioneering research and creativity.
- Advancing our social responsibility – the goal of this theme is to ensure that the university is a force for good in the world. This would be done by cultivating a well-rounded student body and meeting key societal goals.
- Funding a world-class university of the future – this theme would discuss the expansion of the campus to 60,000 students and the creation of a “mega Manchester” to bolster opportunities.
Workshops will be held over the course of the next two months to discuss what these themes would look like in practice.
Led by recent University of Manchester graduates and the Students’ Union executive team, students will be encouraged to voice their opinions on current experiences and topical global issues.
Students can also submit feedback online or email questions at [email protected].
