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AUB Strategy 2030+

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AUB Strategy 2030+

AUB Strategy 2030+ sets out how we will realise our new ambition.

It defines the key priorities that will guide us as we develop our people and our students, continually reimagine our curriculum, and strive to deepen our partnerships with industry. This is a plan rooted in encouraging opportunity, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurial spirit; a bold vision for a university that will work hard to shape the future of creative education and therefore, creating leaders of the future.

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Vision

To be an arts university that redefines creative education – combining artistic creative excellence, research, entrepreneurialism, innovation and social purpose to meet the future challenges of a changing world.

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Mission

We exist to nurture creative talent, advance artistic creative practice, and generate cultural and social value through education, research, and engagement with local, national, and international communities and industries.

Core Principle

Opportunity for all

Championing talent and ambition in every community. Our civic agenda ensures creative opportunities and a sense of belonging for all staff and students, unlocking our collective creative future.

Strategic pillars

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Pillar 1: Creative Excellence

Our defining spirit, a commitment to imagination and innovation that empowers every learner to create high-quality work with purpose and impact.

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Pillar 2: Future Skills

Creating graduates who are agile, adaptable and confident in moving between analogue and digital, craft and code, studio and screen.

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Pillar 3: Research and enterprise

The belief that every student is a potential innovator, equipped not only with a creative talent but with the confidence, resilience and business acumen to shape their own futures.

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Arts University Bournemouth stands ready to enter a new era.

Lisa Mann, Vice-Chancellor and CEO

Curating the Future

The Entrepreneurial Arts University

AUB strategy 2030+ will see AUB become the go-to Entrepreneurial Arts University – igniting creative careers and shaping future industries.

  • Providing graduates with access to our facilities afterGraduation.
  • Retain creative talent in the BCP and Dorset regions.
  • Co-working space: Launch an on-campus co-working hub for graduates, alumni, freelancers, and SMEs.
  • Creative agency: establish a student and graduate-run creative agency.
  • Introduce enterprise electives across all our courses.
  • Enterprise Champions Network to advanceentrepreneurial thinking.
  • Annual Creative Entrepreneurship Forum.
  • Double our Industry Patron network.

Read AUB Strategy 2030+