Bath Spa Strategy 2030

Our Context and Ambition

How we will accomplish this
Our mission is to use creativity and innovation to successfully address the key issues of our age. We are a resourceful university with roots in the synergies between employers and creativity that are the drivers of sustainable economic development. We pride ourselves on our sense of community and our nurturing ethos.
Our excellent teaching and research are intertwined, novel and bold: we value the links between thinking, making and doing. We welcome the diversity of our students and value their individual narratives; we are a place where students change their lives and change the world.
We believe in the power of people to imagine and realise solutions for any problem and in the next decade we will apply our skills to global challenges and local opportunities. We will look outwards, establishing centres of inclusive teaching excellence wherever there is a need. While looking outwards we will be rooted in Bath, our City of Imagination, where we are essential to the region. Wherever we work, we will carry the creative values of the West of England as our lodestone.

Creativity

Our focus
Our research approach
Our work as makers and narrators
Our work as learners

Enterprise

A partnership approach
To each of these partnerships, we'll bring our core values and our creative professionalism to bear, ensuring that whilst each partnership is unique, all are identifiably influenced by our distinctive identity.
These partnerships will:
- Foster economic and cultural development at a range of scales
- Extend our reach within and beyond the West of England so that we're learning and sharing best practice wherever we find it
- Improve our student learning and graduate outcomes
- Ensure that our work is relevant, useful and needed
  Our approach will include, but not be limited to:
  - Employer and enterprise partnerships – with industries, SMEs, unitary authorities,
    
    local and regional government and business leaders. We'll contribute to economic growth and development, and will work closely with employers in the design of our degrees and in our research and creative endeavours.
  - Educational partnerships – with schools, colleges, private providers of HE, universities and other centres of learning, in order to share best practice, to develop talent pipelines, to explore best practice and to capitalise on emerging educational opportunities.
  - Cultural and creative partnerships – with museums, galleries, festivals, creative sector bodies, individuals within cultural and creative industries, to optimise our creative reach and the possibilities afforded to our staff and students.
  - Alumni engagement – to ensure that our community is lifelong and that our students and graduates benefit from this continued engagement with Bath Spa University.
  - An international approach is critical if we're to optimise our impact, in our research and in our creative work, through our staff and for our students. In a global world, we'll be globally aware and globally connected.
  Whether we build satellite campuses, strategic educational partnerships, or long-standing links with other bodies, we will focus on our core attributes of nurture and creativity and our determined ambition to make a difference, in order to add value to individuals and communities locally, nationally and globally.