President’s Office University Strategy

University Strategy 2006-2008University Strategy 2006-2008

‘‘Leadership through Leadership through Foresight’Foresight’

Overview

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Introduction

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Dublin City University - Facts & Figures

10,000 students

2300 postgraduates 600 by research

1200 staff (300 academic)

€56m capital investment from HEA in research centres at DCU

Annual research expend. ~ €24m

Research contracts 2005 valued at €42m

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Recently changed to an ‘executive’ faculty model

FacultiesDCU Business School

Faculty of Science and Health

Computing

Electronic Engineering

Mechanical & Manufacturing

Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences

Applied Language and Intercultural Studies

Communications Education Studies Fiontar Law and Government

Faculty of Science and Health

Biotechnology Chemical Sciences

Mathematics Nursing

Physical Sciences Health and Human Performance

Oscail (Distance Education)

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Research Centres and InstitutesNational Research Centres

National Centre for Sensor Research

National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology

National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology

Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering

University Designated Research CentresCentre for Digital Video Processing

Centre for International Studies

Centre for Research in Management Learning and Development

Centre for Society, Information and Media (SIM)

Centre for Translation and Textual Studies

Materials Processing Research Centre

Vascular Health Research Centre

International Centre for Neurotherapeutics

Centre for Advancement of Science Teaching and Learning

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Research Funding Successes since June 2005Wyeth Biopharmaceuticals Research €4m

Industrial collaborator

Bristol-Myers Squibb Collaboration €10m Industry and university collaborators

National Institute for Bioprocessing, Research & Training €72m Industry and university collaborators

Biomedical Diagnostics Institute €22m University and industrial partners

National Digital Research Centre €25m University and industrial partners

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Strategy

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Foreword• High level strategic objectives for university• Supported via 30 sub-objectives within component plans:

– Learning Innovation– Research– Internal Communications– Wider Community Engagement

• 100+ initiatives overall across all plans• In each of the full plans individual objectives have timelines,

metrics, responsibility (prime & associated)• All will form an integrated three year operational plan for

implementation• Each initiative being costed as part of the process (Revenue

Strategy)

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• DCU – Radical and Different:– Pioneering implementation of the Academic Themes– Pioneering in a number of other areas including:

• Benchmarking (Research assessment, Teaching & Learning benchmarking)

• Benchmarking against small group of international alliance partners

• International Foresight groups in Research, Learning Innovation leading to fast, flexible reaction to international trends

• A focus on key research areas

• Introduction of Postgraduate training

• Introduction of ‘Intra for postgrads’

• Introduction of Thematic modules via the Academic Themes

– Examining branding of the university in terms of Linked Colleges, Research Centres to create a more integrated approach to marketing

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The Theme Leaders are at the core of making DCU pioneering & different

• Academic Themes:– Business & Innovation – Internationalisation, Interculturalism and Social Development – Science, Discovery & Technological Innovation (SDTI) – Information Technology & the Knowledge Society – Education & Learning – Life Sciences & Health in Society

• Academic Themes can ensure cross university, interdisciplinary developments will take place

• Working directly with the Executive Faculty structures that are now in place

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All sections of the Strategy process use a similar governance structure

Relevant Individual Or Unit

Relevant Individual Or Unit

Strategic Projects Unit

Strategic Projects Unit

Provides relevant

feedback, outside

reports and analysis

Management Plans

Internal AdvisoryBoard

Internal AdvisoryBoard

Representative Group

Provides suggested discussion areas, draft documents

Into Draft Consultation

Process

Back for final version and inclusion in Planning process

External AdvisoryBoard

External AdvisoryBoard

Outside ‘Sanity Check’

Small Working Group

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Strategic Objectives

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Strategic Objectives

1. DCU will integrate the Academic Themes as drivers of innovation and change with all areas of the university activities consistent with our strategic intent

2. DCU will identify knowledge trends and future national needs and act upon them, for the purpose of leading change in Irish society and the successful translation of knowledge into social & economic benefits

3. DCU will continually reinvent its education portfolio to ensure that it is innovative and radical and responds to student needs and national priorities

4. DCU will strengthen its scholarship so as to become an internationally recognised, interdisciplinary, highly focused, research-intensive and collaborative university

5. DCU will be a leader in the development of Ireland’s Fourth Level6. DCU will develop a radical, sustainable and appropriate strategy for revenue

growth and integrate our policy and resourcing to reflect our distinctive strategic priorities

7. DCU will deepen its commitment to Ireland’s social, cultural and economic development

8. DCU will secure a small number of strategic alliances with national and international partners