Our education, research and innovation all reach around the world, transforming lives through their positive impact. We are sought out by potential students and staff, and global partners, due to our success and reputation. Our international outlook permeates everything we do and is a core part of our activity and decision-making.
Our approach to global engagement recognises that we bring the best of the University of Strathclyde to the wider world. We attract people and industry partners to our Glasgow campus and wider facilities to engage with us through education, research and innovation. We also take our distinctive approach out to people and partners around the world through our partnerships, online learning opportunities, and overseas delivery. Our world leading research and innovation both creates and engages with new knowledge to deliver better outcomes for our planet, with our impact amplified through our industrial, public and third sector partnerships. Whether in Scotland or overseas, we put our values-led approach first, engaging in mutually beneficial engagement.
Our primary motivation for developing deep international partnerships based on long-term academic engagement is the significant value we see in working together to address many of the most urgent global grand challenges. We see strategic collaboration and the collective thinking of leading international universities as being pivotal to the success of our global efforts.
In each area, we seek innovative and transformative opportunities to bring a step change to our impact and effectiveness. We recognise that these advances will be far more significant if secured through global collaboration and the exchange of people and ideas.
By 2030, we will have increased our international diversity of activity, in education, research and innovation, both in Glasgow and in overseas locations through our work with partners.
Distinctive Strathclyde
People First
We will continue to value our multinational community of staff and our international partnerships, as diversity of views, approaches and inputs help us to make a more meaningful difference around the world. We will support and train our staff in navigating regulatory frameworks, including trusted research, that will govern and guide our global partnerships.
Social & Environmental Sustainability
We are proud that our socially progressive approach positively impacts lives, jobs, economies and communities around the world.
Process, Systems & Digital
Our digital approach supports us in widening access to our education and research, and reduces the environmental impact of our international activity by connecting us in new and more effective ways to communities and individuals around the world. Our connectivity is increased through this intelligent deployment of technology, allowing us to enhance our partnerships, impact and reach.
Our strategic aims
Strategic Aim 4.1: Engagement in Scotland
We attract high quality international students, staff, and partners to our Scottish campus and broader facilities for educational, research, and innovation opportunities.
We will achieve this by:
- increasing the number and diversity of our international staff and student populations through direct recruitment, partnership working, and exchanges
- enabling our students and staff to engage with industrial, public and third sector partners to enrich their education and widen experience
- ensuring we are responsive to the needs of our international staff and students by providing a supportive and inclusive experience to joining and being part of our university community
- attracting international investment and entrepreneurs to our university, city and region by promoting our distinctive and joined-up approach to research, innovation and economic development
Strategic Aim 4.2: Global Presence & Reputation
We take our distinctive Strathclyde values-led approach and our excellence in education, research and innovation out to the world, through our students, our alumni, our staff and our work with partners. We are enriched by and learn from this international engagement.
We will achieve this by:
- expanding opportunities for our students to gain international experience including study abroad, work placement and short exchange programmes, and ensuring barriers to participation for underrepresented groups are overcome
- working with our international partners to address the world’s most challenging problems, while ensuring that our engagements with communities, organisations and state bodies fit with our social and environmental sustainability priorities and our ethical framework. Our academic partnerships with leading international universities enhance the reputation of both collaborating institutions across education, research and innovation
- engaging in our values-led work with international and global businesses and industry, to deliver benefit to those partners and society
- further activating our network of alumni to grow our engagement, reputation and reach, celebrating their successes and the ways in which they have built upon their Strathclyde experience