Our new UNSW Strategy: Progress for All launches!

After 12 months of engagement with our University community, we are proud of our Strategy which reflects our aspirations and ambitions.  

As you know, our new UNSW Strategy: Progress for All has been designed and developed through significant consultation, engagement and involvement of our community. More than 9000 students, staff, alumni and University partners – including Indigenous communities, philanthropists, government and the not-for-profit sector – contributed ideas and feedback. 

Our final Strategy reflects our University community’s aspirations and ambitions. It’s the roadmap for the next decade and will equip us to achieve the vision we have set for our centenary in 2049 – where Progress for All will shine through in all that we do.

Our Strategy roadmap

The UNSW Strategy: Progress for All has nine Strategic Pillars comprising five Impact Pathways and four Impact Focus Areas. 

Responding to our dynamic times, the Impact Pathways set our ambitions and priorities for the primary functional areas of the University and the operational areas that enable our work. The primary functional areas are transformative education, innovative research and genuine engagement with people, communities and partners. The operational areas are purposeful, values-based culture and inspiring, effective environments and systems.

The Impact Pathways are the ways we will contribute to achieving positive societal impact in the four Impact Focus Areas, which are drawn from the inaugural Societal Impact Framework (SIF).

These areas connect us to the most pressing challenges of our time and the areas where UNSW can have distinctive and significant impact. We see the four areas of the SIF as key to our future foundation activities – effectively acting as the themes where we will focus our engagement, partnership and fundraising efforts.

The launch event

The launch today (Wednesday 19 February) was an exciting opportunity to hear from our Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Attila Brungs and others in our community about the aspirations of the new Strategy. 

Host Neda Dowling, Engagement and Communications Coordinator in UNSW Business School, introduced some inspiring members of the UNSW community who are already making an impact in society. 

The speakers gave a brief snapshot of the important and diverse work happening across UNSW. They included Professor Heidi Norman, from the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture; Gateway Ambassador and Engineering student Doha Goreishi; Associate Professor Rebecca Deans, from the School of Clinical Medicine in Medicine and Health; and Martin Collings, a UNSW alumnus and founder of Charopy, a sustainability focused company addressing recycling bin contamination in public spaces.

If you weren’t able to attend in person, you can watch the livestream.