Our strategy starts from a position of strength. The College has a global research reputation across the spectrum of the Arts and Social Sciences and we are partners of choice for multiple international agencies in co-designing better educational and environmental outcomes for all. We do all this work with and for our students. We have a proud history of enabling access to education for people from all four provinces of Ireland whilst also facilitating exchange with all four corners of the world. Exchange – of cultural values, experiences, knowledge – is at the heart of what we do in the College.

This Strategy is all about being transformational. We look at the world around us and ask how it can be better, for more people, more of the time. We also look at all the things we already have and are mindful that the past too needs tending: there is transformational work to be done in finding the right ways to remember and keep our most important lessons, objects, and practices accessible for future generations.

 We work from our existing strengths in teaching and research and utilise our eight major portfolio areas to our commitments to deliver this strategy. Our overarching goal is to inspire transformational thought and action across society, while fulfilling our mission as a public university serving the public good, such that the knowledge held within our disciplines empowers people to lead fulfilling, socially and environmentally responsible lives right around the world.