Core plans

The six strategic aims will be delivered through a series of integrated core institutional plans that will guide the University’s operations in the following areas:

The development of the plans will be phased. All core plans are expected to be completed by June 2024.

An indicative timeframe of the development of all the core plans is as follows:

Core Plan

Development starts

Expected completion

International Engagement and Impact

January 2022

Complete

Education and Student Experience 

April 2022

Complete

Partnerships

October 2022

Complete

Research and Innovation

January 2023

Complete

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

January 2023

March 2024

Sporting Excellence and Opportunity

January 2023

June 2024

Each plan will have a content lead, who will be responsible for overseeing the plan’s development, working in partnership with the University’s senior leaders and other key stakeholders within and, where appropriate, outside of the University.

Each core plan will be approved by the University Leadership Group, who will also review progress against each of the plans. A report on each plan will be presented to Council annually.

Enabling projects

The core plans will be supported by a series of six Enabling Projects.

The projects consider and address the organisational changes that need to be made to make progress with our strategic aims. The six projects are interrelated and together seek to develop our processes, our digital capabilities, our profile, our approach to compliance and our ways of working.

Each project will have a Sponsor, drawn from the University’s senior management teams, and a Project Director, who together will be responsible for leading the development of the project, supported by a Project Manager and the Organisational Development and Change teams.

The development of the projects will be phased. Project Enable was the first to be launched, in February, and early-stage work has begun on Project Compliance. The scope of the other Projects is currently being drawn up.

Project Enable

Sponsor: Prof. Nick Jennings
Director: Richard Taylor
Manager: Matt Youngs

Project Enable explores how to create capacity and thinking space for staff to enable the advancement of our strategic priorities, and other value-add activities, by identifying what we can do differently or stop doing and by addressing both processes and culture.

Project Enable

Project Expectations

Sponsor: Prof. Nick Jennings
Director: Ffyona Baker
Manager: Sandra Hill

Project Expectations seeks to make clear the new expectations required of leaders and colleagues in the context of the new Strategic Plan, aligning supporting systems, processes and culture. It will look to make the intangible, tangible by exploring what Loughborough needs from its colleagues, how their performance will be measured and how they can expect to be developed, recognised and valued for their contribution.

Project Expectations

Project Compliance

Sponsor: Richard Taylor
Director: Sam McGinty
Manager: John Houghton

To protect the integrity of our University’s compliance obligations whilst skilling and empowering colleagues to take appropriate action at the appropriate time.

Project Compliance

Project Digital

Sponsor: Richard Taylor
Director: Vipin Ahlawat
Manager: Jackie Hutchison-Connors

This project will ensure that the University has the digital capabilities required to achieve our strategic aims through each of the six Core Plans.

Project Digital

Project Reputation

Sponsor: Richard Taylor
Director: Martyn Edwards
Manager: Hannah Baldwin

This project will consider how we distil and project our distinctive strengths to enhance our reputation as a leading university.

Project Reputation

Project Workplace

Sponsors: Richard Taylor and Professor Chris Linton
Directors: Ffyona Baker and Graham Howard
Manager: Meg Stafford

Project Workplace drives the transformation of our workplaces – as they relate to culture and physical space – to become engaging, modern offices suited to post-pandemic ways of working, where staff can thrive.

Project Workplace