2030 Priorities and Ambition
Strategic Objectives
Foreword
Our Vision, Purpose, and Values
Navigating the Challenges
Measures of success
Securing our future
Strategic Themes
Aston Health Services Hub
Birmingham Innovation Quarter (B-IQ)
Urban University
Our 2030 strategy is therefore blurring the boundaries between campus and city, between our university community and diverse city communities, business and academia, work and life, by creating places that drive and enable innovation, co-creation and collaboration as never before. The main pillars of this approach include the creation of the following.
This strategic theme is about placemaking, by focusing on creating new innovative places for our people and beneficiaries and transforming our city and campus beyond the current Aston Triangle. Our primary aim is to improve the lived experience within our university and strengthen the connections between people and our places. This is an approach centred on people and their needs, aspirations, desires, and visions, which relies strongly on community engagement.
Inclusive and innovative
OUR PEOPLE AND PLACE
Embedded within the new consolidated health innovation campus within the B-IQ. As part of our commitment to enable our students to be ready for work and life and to our staff and wider community, the Aston Health Services Hub will offer comprehensive integrated health and wellbeing services. We know our community, including our student population, face disproportionate health inequality. We are also addressing known national challenges around student mental health and wellbeing. The Aston Health Services Hub will provide unique personalised preventative health and wellbeing support, personalised information to enable informed life choices for healthy living and ageing, and our students and community will benefit from the latest thinking and technology in digital healthcare driven by world-leading research into global health challenges within this unique ecosystem.
These strategic developments, innovations and co-investments will establish a new university model that is inclusive, entrepreneurial and transformational, demonstrating in action how universities can act as a catalyst for their people and place, and communities they serve.
Aston Health Services Hub
Located here at Aston University, and co-created with our partners Bruntwood SciTech, Birmingham City Council and others, as an innovation ecosystem of global significance to drive innovation at scale and pace, to attract enterprising talent, and create enterprising graduates. This will be a place where digital tech and health tech, the brightest talent, most exciting businesses and cultural institutions come together to foster a game-changing innovation environment. A place where our staff and students work alongside leading innovators and businesses to develop new skills and realise new value.
Birmingham Innovation Quarter (B-IQ)
By embedding our core activities and infrastructure within the heart of the city to drive the regeneration of the city and engagement with the community. This includes establishing in the city centre the “front door” to Aston University, our Business Hub and Enterprise Hub, Alumni Club (as a ‘home away from home’ for Aston University alumni) and embedding Aston Business School within the city business and financial district at the intersection of main transport links (including HS2 and New Street Station). An urban university integrated within the city centre, supporting our communities to thrive economically, socially and culturally.
Urban University
Aston Health Services Hub
Birmingham Innovation Quarter (B-IQ)
Urban University
Our 2030 strategy is therefore blurring the boundaries between campus and city, between our university community and diverse city communities, business and academia, work and life, by creating places that drive and enable innovation, co-creation and collaboration as never before. The main pillars of this approach include the creation of the following.
This strategic theme is about placemaking, by focusing on creating new innovative places for our people and beneficiaries and transforming our city and campus beyond the current Aston Triangle. Our primary aim is to improve the lived experience within our university and strengthen the connections between people and our places. This is an approach centred on people and their needs, aspirations, desires, and visions, which relies strongly on community engagement.
Inclusive and innovative
OUR PEOPLE AND PLACE