LSBU Group Annual Review 2019/20 Welcome to our first ever LSBU Group Annual Review.

On the following pages you will find stories not just from the University but Academies, South Bank Enterprises and South Bank Colleges. In February 2019, joined the Group in the first HE-FE merger of its kind. Since then we have been working to integrate these individual but aligned institutions into an effective Group of educational providers. This has included ‘behind the scenes’ work such as the implementation of service and system collaborations in areas like ICT, compliance, and procurement; and while these operational changes are increasing effectiveness across the Group, they are secondary to the benefits we are creating for our learners. There is an acknowledged problem in with high numbers of learners failing to make the transition beyond Level 3 (A-Level equivalent). In 2015/16, of the 1.1 million learners in further education that completed an eligible learning aim at Level 3, only 10% went on to an apprenticeship or study for a qualification at Level 4 or higher. Collaboration between the two sectors within LSBU Group has helped us to understand in greater The LSBU Group aims to detail the higher education needs and aspirations of potential students. This, in turn, has enabled us to improve their experience, help smooth transition transform lives, communities, and develop joint access and participation plans to support access to university from the College. This businesses and society through has already seen a 9% increase in Lambeth College applied education and insight. students progressing to higher education.

Welcome | 1 We have also seen successes in We are now launching our new university rankings, receiving a 5-star rating in the QS World Rankings 2021, and being positioned 2020-25 Group Corporate 12th among UK universities for graduate starting salaries. Strategy. The new strategy, Whatever challenges the next year brings, I have every confidence as well as this review, comes that the LSBU Group will rise to meet them. We have plans to at a time of distinct change. develop a new technical college in , to increase the number of young people accessing Level 3 and 4 qualifications. Our new LSBU campus will next year start teaching healthcare students to help the NHS tackle a severe shortage of nurses across South . The University is two years into our LEAP programme; our five year digital transformation The Covid-19 pandemic has had We have welcomed the publication project that will create a distinctive far-reaching consequences for our of the Government’s Research and engaging student experience. students, staff, and the organisations and Development roadmap and Finally, we are looking forward to we work with. Many of us will likely see its commitment to invest 2.4% of the ambitious redevelopment of a permanent change in how we work. GDP in research, development our London Road Building, which and innovation by 2027. The The wider education sector remains will modernise facilities for both Government’s Levelling Up agenda in a state of continual change, staff and students and support our can only be realised if there is including developments such as ongoing move from teaching via adequate funding for applied and the introduction of T-Levels and large lecture theatres to blended translational research, which makes the ongoing reviews of Level 4 and learning through smaller seminars tangible social and economic 5 and Post-16 Qualifications. In the complemented by online provision. impact – the sort of research that autumn, we expect Government the University excels in delivering. I hope you will enjoy reading through to bring forward both an FE White our stories, news and achievements Paper and a Comprehensive Despite the challenges we have from the last academic year and will Spending Review, which may have a faced over the last year, LSBU share in my excitement as we look profound impact on the way higher Group has seen many important forward to the next one. education is funded. successes. In April 2020, LSBU was awarded its first Athena Though we continue to wait to see SWAN Bronze Charter, recognising how these changes impact upon the significant work the University Professor David Phoenix OBE the sector, it has been positive has undertaken to achieve a FAcSS, DL DUniv, DSc, FRCP (Edin), to see greater recognition of the strong foundation in addressing FSB, FRSC, FIMA, PFHEA importance of professional and gender bias and developing an technical education, to which LSBU Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, inclusive culture. Group contributes very substantially. LSBU Group

2 | lsbu.ac.uk Welcome | 3 Snapshot of Among top 26th among the LSBU Group 150 universities apprenticeship achievements globally under training 50 years old providers QS World Rate My University Apprenticeship 5 Star Rating 12th among Rankings: Top 2019-20 QS World UK universities 50 under 50 University for graduate 2021 With around Rankings 2021 starting 2000 salaries 23rd among apprentices Athena Swan Longitudinal universities LSBU is one Bronze Award Educational globally for of the largest holder for Outcomes Reducing providers commitment Data 2017-18 Inequalities of higher to Equality, (Published Times Higher and degree Diversity and 2020) Impact apprenticeships Inclusion Ranking 2020 in the country

4 | lsbu.ac.uk LSBU Group achievements | 5 The LSBU Group comprises South Bank Academies, LSBU Group South Bank Colleges, South Bank London South Bank South Bank South Bank South Bank Enterprises and University Colleges Academies Enterprises London South Bank University. South Bank University Working to one Passmore Centre Lambeth College vision it seeks Technical College to deliver the educational Vauxhall Technical University Academy College of Engineering needs of (under development) South Bank communities and business locally and globally.

6 | lsbu.ac.uk LSBU Group | 7 Volunteering with the NHS Responding to Coronavirus During the pandemic, LSBU made Professor Nicola Thomas also volunteering shifts available to staff stepped forward, taking on two wishing to support the NHS and voluntary shifts per week at her local those affected by the crisis. hospital alongside her teaching work at LBSU. In March 2017, Professor Rachel Picton, Head of Allied Health Thomas became the first UK nurse Sciences, began volunteering three to be appointed a Professor of days a week at her local NHS Trust. Kidney Care. With the capacity of As a diagnostic radiographer, Rachel nursing staff stretched during the worked in accident and emergency crisis, Nicola was able to provide at her local hospital in Southend, support by speaking with kidney care taking chest x-rays and CT scans of patients, including those who had suspected Covid-19 patients. had transplants or were on dialysis, As coronavirus affects the lungs to help ensure their individual and can make breathing difficult, treatment needs were met. radiography has been a vital service in diagnosing and treating patients. Nursing staff deployed to With a shortage of radiographers Nightingale Hospital for the number of Covid-19 patients, One of the Government’s responses volunteers like Rachel helped ensure to the Coronavirus Pandemic was the that, as initially feared, NHS services In line with Government guidance, While every one of us has played creation of a number of Nightingale weren’t overburdened by the the LSBU campus was closed some part in tackling the Covid-19 Hospitals to provide extra capacity if pandemic. from late March until early July pandemic, particular tribute needs to existing NHS Trusts were overwhelmed when we commenced a phased be paid to the staff and students of by Covid-19 patients. LSBU staff re-opening. During that time staff our School of Health and Social Care. provided important support in worked tirelessly to ensure that all Each year, LSBU trains thousands the setup of the NHS Nightingale students were able to complete of healthcare professionals to work Hospital London, based in the ExCel their courses by moving teaching in NHS Trusts across London and Centre at Royal Victoria Dock. online and developing assessment further afield. Dr Suzanne Bench, Associate methods, including exams, which During the spring peak of the 2020 Professor of Nursing, helped to train could be completed and submitted Covid pandemic, over 500 LSBU nursing staff in applied critical care electronically. student nurses contributed to practice techniques, drawing on Those students staying in our halls ensuring the continuity of health and her 20 years’ experience of critical of residence who decided to return care services. Many members of staff care nursing and research into the to their family homes were released also made significant contributions, psychological recovery of patients from their rental contracts and including assisting with the following critical illness. Similarly, the requirement to pay their final establishment of the NHS Nightingale Anthony McGrath, LSBU’s Deputy instalment for the summer term. We Hospital London, involving the Dean for the School of Health and also relaunched and enlarged our creation of the clinical skills and Social Care (and a Lieutenant hardship fund to support those who simulation training facility, and Colonel in the reserve forces) was lost earnings due to the shutdown, providing ‘up-skill’ training to nurses deployed by his regiment to help allocating more than £150,000 to and doctors to enable them to work with planning and construction of over 700 students. in intensive care environments. Nightingales across the country.

8 | lsbu.ac.uk Responding to Coronavirus | 9 Providing PPE Overcoming the ‘Digital Divide’ South Bank The 3D printers at South Bank The coronavirus crisis and remote poor or non-existent internet access, UTC are usually used to run BTEC school teaching have brought the ensuring all pupils had the necessary Academies courses on additive manufacture issue of digital poverty into the equipment to access learning from and for design prototyping. spotlight, with many pupils from home. However, with stocks of PTE-G and lower socio-economic backgrounds The Academy also linked up with made its own PTA plastics (the two materials having inadequate access to School Food Matters to provide the NHS has approved for use the technology needed to study healthy breakfast boxes throughout contribution as visor frames) the school was effectively from home. In response, the summer for struggling families able to produce replicas of the UAE Southbank distributed more in the school community so that all approved visor-frame design. Once than 100 Chromebook laptop to helping out students were able to start their day printed, the frames were sent to computers, as well as providing with a healthy meal. a distribution centre in Sheffield, dongles and data to those with during the where they were fitted with a clear visor and sent on to hospitals. A UTC staff member crisis. South Meanwhile, students at UAE printing visor frames Southbank collected over 50 sets Bank UTC used of goggles from the school’s science labs and delivered them to NHS its 3D printers staff at Lewisham and NHS Trust, who needed vital as part of personal protective equipment. Accounting Students a collective Pitching In

It isn’t only nursing students that effort by UTCs have been supporting the NHS. 23 students from the School of around the Business, studying Accounting and Finance, have undertaken A UAE South Bank country to placements at NHS Trusts over the pupil delivering last year. protective goggles to Lewisham and provide the One such student, Alister D’Souza, Greenwich NHS Trust who worked in Financial Systems in the Accident and Emergency NHS with and Intensive Care Unit of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS frames for Foundation Trust, volunteered in the Intensive Care Unit during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic protective helping to update patient details and liaise with other departments visors. within the hospital.

10 | lsbu.ac.uk Responding to Coronavirus | 11 Student Success

12 | lsbu.ac.uk Student Success | 13 Since its foundation, LSBU has focused on providing Crossing Borders and Language Barriers professional and technical education to meet the Last summer, Arts and Performance students from demands of the modern workplace. Our teaching LSBU’s School of Arts and Creative Industries staged two shows in is highly applied, professionally accredited and the prestigious International Youth Arts Festival – Crossing Borders and Blood Wedding informed by the research of our academics, many – with the latter winning the Audience Choice Award. of whom are leaders in their field. Since 2016, LSBU has maintained a transatlantic partnership with Ryerson University in Toronto. Crossing Borders was conceived, written, co-directed and “I am most grateful for this performed across the Atlantic experience because it was with Ryerson using technology my first real-life experience which allowed the students to work together in real time. Other of how a project is executed creative exchanges between It is for this reason that we were in the professional arts industry the two institutions include named University of the Year for environment. I am now collaborative and virtual work on Graduate Employment in both 2018 finishing my drama degree, not live briefs, student exchanges and and 2019. The professional success just with three years of training, a shared degree in Production our students can expect is one of Arts being developed to operate the main reasons they chose to but also with very high-level across both Universities. study with us. The creation of LSBU professional credits on my Blood Wedding was staged Group allows us to take this even acting CV.” with TAI Madrid School of the Arts, further - providing learners with a Student participant, with initial development taking wider range of opportunities such as place separately before the teams further access to technical facilities, Blood Wedding met in London and Madrid for volunteering opportunities and rehearsals and performances. student services – and creating The play tackles issues of language clear pathways from school through by employing a mixture of English FE and HE into high quality careers. and Spanish as well as the Our students achieve remarkable performers’ own body language. things every day, whether that’s The graduate acting company overcoming personal adversity involved in the performance have to realise their dreams, winning now established themselves as competitions or finding success in an independent theatre group – Gill Foster rehearsing for Blood Wedding their career. Let’s meet a few of our with students from LSBU and Tai University El Caballo – with plans to tour inspirational students and alumni. of the Arts the show.

14 | lsbu.ac.uk Student Success | 15 CoderDojo at South Bank UTC Temi’s Journey Coder Dojo is a global movement At the age of nineteen, Temi Odejoke of free, volunteer-led, community The Dojo has been a shining example sustained an injury which led to him computer programming clubs for having a stroke; losing the mobility young people aged 7-11 years. In in his left side and sustaining severe September, South Bank UTC set up of different members of LSBU Group memory loss. Combined with his a Dojo, in collaboration with LSBU existing dyslexia, which also affects Associate Professor Dr Safia Barikzai, working in collaboration to deliver his ability to retain and process giving children the opportunity to information, Temi understandably learn from UTC and LSBU students positive educational impact for the felt demotivated. But a programme about the basics of computing and of rehabilitation helped him gain robotics, through the use of LEGO strength, determination and robots and Raspberry Pi computers. local community. purpose. The Dojo provides Lambeth Primary Starting his course at LSBU, Temi School children with the unique was determined to do well. With taste of what studying engineering the specific support provided to him and computer science might by our Wellbeing team, he worked be like in the future, as well as hard to overcome the barriers he introducing them, and their parents, has faced in his learning. Speaking to the facilities at the UTC and the of his time at LSBU, Temi said: practical, applied form of teaching “there were many times when I it uses. LSBU Engineering students physically and mentally felt like also benefit from their participation giving up, but I knew true failure in the Dojo by increasing their would be if I completely gave up confidence and improving their trying”. He says that he “relished communication skills – as well as the challenge because I had a even inspiring a couple of them strong support system at LSBU to pursue a career in teaching. to which I am grateful”. Following the Covid-19 lockdown, Head of Division and Associate the Coder Dojo moved online Professor of Sport and Exercise and opened up to children across Science, Steve Hunter, recalls that London, introducing them to digital from the day of Temi’s his induction, storytelling and animation. he could see his commitment to achieving his studies; proving to be a model student, with exemplary attendance, attitude and commitment. Temi’s hard work paid off, and he achieved a 2:1 (Hons) degree from LSBU and is one of many examples of LSBU students who have The Raspberry Pi is a tiny and affordable computer that you can achieved their goals in the face use to learn programming through of significant challenges. fun and practical projects

16 | lsbu.ac.uk Student Success | 17 LSBU alumnus wins at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards LSBU Group students have

Editor and LSBU alumnus, Simon Simon has worked on a broad Smith, has won a BAFTA TV Craft range of film and television projects, seen successes in a variety Award for his work on the hugely including the BBC series National successful series, Chernobyl. Treasure, Electric Dreams, Victoria of competitions throughout and Endeavour, but he has pinned Simon studied Film at LSBU and Chernobyl as his biggest career has spoken of the advantage of the year in areas as diverse achievement to date. studying and living in London in helping him to get a head start in his Since its release in 2019, the series as product design, quantum career. In his first year, he received has been nominated for 19 Emmy his first TV and film credits and awards, winning 10, with Simon was offered a job by Director Nick winning a personal Emmy for ‘Best physics and film editing. Broomfield after Simon asked him Editing’. The show also received 14 to deliver a talk to fellow students. BAFTA Television award nominations.

Simon Smith collecting A Competitive Edge LSBU’s Damion Sutherland, Asiya his BAFTA TV Craft Warsame, Trayche Cholakov and 13 LSBU projects were entered Award for his work on Shovon Hossain, students on the hugely successful into the 2020 ’s the BEng (Hons) Electrical and series, Chernobyl Entrepreneurs Competition, with Electronic Engineering and BEng the opportunity to win one of (Hons) Electronic and Computer four £20,000 prizes. Three LSBU Systems Engineering courses, teams, including one comprised secured their place in the semi- of apprentices, made it through to final for their innovative sustainable the semi-finals. One of the projects, public toilet that does not rely on BSc (Hons) Engineering Product the inconsistent energy or water Design student Elisa Puccinelli’s ’Flux. supplies in Makers Valley. Luke on’, aims to make bus travel safer Alderson, Ryan Allinson, Joshua through embedded technologies Martin and Danny Walker, students such as infrared cameras that give on the BEng (Hons) Electrical a real-time indication of passenger and Electronic Engineering Elisa Puccinelli’s entry temperatures, assisting Covid-19 (Apprenticeship) course, secured a for the 2020 Mayor of track and trace. London’s Entrepreneurs place amongst the final six groups Competition ’Flux.on’ Two LSBU teams were selected for for their low-cost, lightweight and the 9th annual National Finals of the fish-friendly hydroelectric turbines Engineering for People (EfP) Design to help to supplement local energy Challenge. In 2019/20, the competition supplies. reached over 7,000 students from 38 different universities. The award- winning challenge tasked students with solving engineering problems faced by residents in Makers Valley, Johannesburg, South Africa.

18 | lsbu.ac.uk Student Success | 19 Four students from LSBU’s Business School (Sarthak Boob, Cicily Asetre, Our student’s successes are Alvira Khan and Mern Gerges) made it through to the quarter-finals of the international NIBS (Network only possible because of the of International Business Schools) Worldwide Case Competition. Over dedication and expertise of the course of three hours, the team analysed a business problem and our academics, many of whom prepared a professional proposal which they then pitched to a business owner. remain in professional practice, For the second year running, two LSBU students took home an award in addition to teaching. This at the 2020 Royal Television Society London Student Awards. ’Hinterland’, allows them to bring cutting- BSc Product Design student, Kristen produced by second year Film Tapping, won first place out of 100 Practice students Robert Hill and entries in the 2020 Design Innovation Marcin Sehn, won the Short Form edge industry practices into in Plastics competition, which award (for films that are a maximum challenges students to design a of five minutes). The pair produced the classroom, ensuring our product with a focus on ‘improving the film during their first year at LSBU, lifestyle and saving resources’. and beat a number of films made by teaching always meets Kirsten’s project, ’Rolloe’, proposed graduate students. an air filtration system for urban Lambeth College Engineering cycle hire schemes that uses the employer expectations. student Shadine Eban-Scully, was a wheel’s rotary motion to draw air in finalist in the Engineering category at street level and force it through a for the STEM Student of the Year series of filters. Award 2020. The achievement Zhen Lu, Chemical Process and is an acknowledgement of the Energy Engineering PhD student, progress she has made on the won first place in the 2020 Europe STEM Career Ready programme, Student Paper Contest for his including undertaking a six-week Professor Basu Saha, Professor of presentation on enhancing oil paid internship at BP, and starting Chemical and Process Engineering, recovery using carbon quantum the search for an engineering was honoured with a highly dots (dots that apply the properties apprenticeship. prestigious Hind Rattan Award, of quantum physics) synthesised presented by the Non-Resident in the Nano2D Lab at LSBU. The Recognition for our Leading Indian Welfare Society of India at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Academics 39th International Congress of NRIs. coordinates 14 regional student The ‘Hind Rattan’ is one of the highest paper contests across the globe, at Over the last academic year several Indian diasporic awards granted to Undergraduate, Master’s and PhD of our leading academics enjoyed non-resident persons of Indian origin levels, with students competing awards and honours celebrating by the NRI Welfare Society of India, to advance to the International their achievements, expertise and and recognises outstanding services Student Paper Contest. services to teaching. and scholarly achievements.

20 | lsbu.ac.uk Student Success | 21 Gill Foster receiving the ‘Drama Inspiration Our new Pro Vice-Chancellor Award’ at the Music (Education) & Drama Education Awards 2020 This year we welcomed development economist Professor Deborah Johnston as the University’s new Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education). “I am honoured to be Professor Johnston replaced appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Shân Wareing, who moved of Education at LSBU. I am to become Deputy Vice-Chancellor excited about helping LSBU at the University of Northampton. continue its strong tradition Deborah Johnston brings a wealth of positively transforming the of experience to LSBU, gained in her previous Pro-Director (PVC) role at lives of students. I very much the School of Oriental and African look forward to working with Studies (SOAS), where she worked colleagues to deliver a high to embed recognition for teaching quality university experience practice within the organisation that enhances graduate and supported teaching staff development. Her focus in recent prospects and makes life and years has been on curriculum design career goals achievable for Gill Foster, Head of Performance Arts, Lambeth College’s Performing and student satisfaction. our students.” won the ‘Drama Inspiration Award’ at Arts team was shortlisted in the the Music & Drama Education Awards ‘Best Teaching & Learning Initiative Professor Johnston obtained Professor Deborah Johnston, 2020. The judges described Gill as “a 2018/19’ of the Times Education Principal Fellowship of the Higher Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) force of nature” due to her passion Supplement (TES) FE Awards for the Education Academy (HEA) in and dedication to the Arts. design and delivery of their Level 2019 and brings experience from 2 and 3 courses, which engaged outside the education sector as an Professor Shushma Patel, Director of students with internal and external economist working for government Education and Student Experience, partners through Twitter and cross- bodies and NGOs. in the School of Engineering, was departmental collaborative projects. made a National Teaching Fellow Beyond our academics, as a group by AdvanceHE in recognition of her of institutions, we are continually work to improve student outcomes. reviewing our course portfolio, updating pedagogy and exploring Professor Simon Philbin, Director new ways to engage and inspire of the Nathu Puri Institute for our students to ensure we are Engineering and Enterprise in the always meeting their needs and School of Engineering at LSBU, has expectations. been serving a term as the 2019/20 President of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM). The Society, which has its origins in the United States but also has international members and sections, is focused on advancing the discipline of engineering management.

22 | lsbu.ac.uk Student Success | 23 What Works for LSBU – Closing Lambeth College makes A modern Business School the BAME Awarding Gap ‘Significant Progress’ Students and staff of LSBU’s School of Business started the academic LSBU’s Centre for Research Informed Lambeth College had an Ofsted year in a new home. The new Teaching (CRIT) brings together monitoring review in March 2020 Business School building received a academic development, learning – its first since joining LSBU Group. “The School of Business’s new substantial interior makeover as part development and digitally-enhanced The visit was conducted under the of an overall £60 million investment learning to promote innovation and new Ofsted Education Inspection makeover reflects the fact that by the University in improving its continuous improvement in teaching Framework and, of the four areas at LSBU, we are now taking a estate and infrastructure. and curriculum development. reviewed, all were assessed as completely different approach making progress. The renovation, undertaken Like other universities across the to the delivery of teaching by interior design firm Maris, country, LSBU suffers from an Based on National Achievement and learning and how we now was inspired by the key themes awarding gap between BAME rates for the further education sector, interact with our students. that characterise the School: and White students, which we are the College is now ranked 43rd out We wanted the new concept flexibility, fluidity, collaboration committed to closing. As part of of 172 colleges in England. This is a and interactivity among staff and our response, CRIT is coordinating testament to the work that staff at to look more business-like, students. the What Works for LSBU project, both the University and College have dynamic and aspirational.” which brings together current put into improving and joining up Sarah Moore-Williams, Highlights of the redesign include pedagogical research and expertise provision across the Group. Dean of LSBU Business School two academic hubs - the ‘Learning while encouraging new areas of Lounge’ and ‘Explore’ space – research. The first call for proposals created to encourage greater from LSBU staff went out in October informal collaboration between 2019 during Black History month, staff and students. The Bloomberg while a second call-out was made Finance Lab on the ground floor in June 2020 seeking proposals mimics the look of an actual for joint LSBU/Lambeth College financial trading floor, with the projects focusing on the transition Bloomberg digital trading platform from FE to HE or on practice sharing accessible across all computer between the institutions. Ten terminals. Improved technology projects are now being supported Lambeth College Nursey team at the has also been key to the School’s with £150,000 of funding. Nursery World Awards 2019 transformation into a modern business facility. Glass messaging Supporting our Parent Learners boards have been placed in each teaching and academic In November, Lambeth College space, alongside new audio- Nursery came third at the Nursery visual equipment to enable video World Awards 2019. Chief Judge conference calls, presentations Wendy Scott commented that, and virtual meetings. “Special mention should be made of the Lambeth College Nursery in , which provides personalised support for parents attending courses as well as for their children; this is resulting in regular The shared spaces in the new Business School mean students will often find attendance and notably successful themselves working side by side with outcomes to their studies.” their lecturers

24 | lsbu.ac.uk Student Success | 25 Apprenticeship Programme Continues to Grow LSBU now has around 2000

The apprenticeship programme at LSBU has been going from strength apprentices, making it one of the to strength. In 2019 we received our first Ofsted inspection, being largest providers of higher and degree awarded a ‘Good’ rating for our provision. apprenticeships in the country. The University was also shortlisted for Learning Provider of the Year at the BAME Apprenticeship Awards We teach the widest range of 2020, with three LSBU apprentices short listed within the construction standards of any UK university and category. Also, we were placed 26th amongst apprenticeship providers on Rate my Apprenticeships 2019- are offering six new standards in 2020 based on apprentice reviews. construction from Levels 4-6 for the We are the only organisation in England offering the 3-year Level 5 Rail and Rail Systems apprenticeship 2020/21 academic year. and the 4-year Level 6 Rail and Rail System Senior Engineer apprenticeship, having launched these in 2020. 47 apprentices from Network Rail and 6 apprentices from WSP have started on these programmes which encompass blended learning. They draw on In March, the College was awarded The College also celebrated its real-world, work-based experiences an Innovation Grant by the Greater first Apprenticeship Awards – The and an understanding of what London Assembly to provide NHS Lambeth Made Charter Mark is happening across the nation’s health care support staff with Awards 2020 – in association with railway system, and how a change a leadership and development Lambeth Made, an organisation in one area may affect seemingly programme which will help them that builds innovative partnerships unconnected parts of the railway. to progress into pre-registration with businesses to support the next programmes and apprenticeships. generation of residents, through The inclusion of Lambeth College The programme will enable NHS apprenticeships and work experience. in LSBU Group offers opportunities employees to achieve the required There were over 40 award winners to expand our apprenticeship skills in English and Maths, as well across different employment provision, including the delivery as leadership and other skills. This sectors from health and social care, of intermediate and advanced will enable NHS staff in entry level construction, fitness and IT to creative apprenticeships at Levels 2 positions to develop personally arts and media. Cllr Jack Hopkins, and 3 and providing support for and professionally, boosting their Leader of the London Borough of prospective apprentices for higher career prospects and reducing Lambeth, provided the keynote and degree courses. skills shortages. speech and presented the awards.

26 | lsbu.ac.uk Student Success | 27 Real World Impact

28 | lsbu.ac.uk Real World Impact | 29 With its commitment to increase By collaborating with businesses the proportion of spending on Research and Development to 2.4% of GDP by 2027, the Government has and organisations in London signalled the intention to utilise the UK’s world-leading universities to and across the world, LSBU help tackle the significant economic and social challenges the country delivers high quality applied faces, including those brought to the fore by the Covid-19 pandemic. Institutions such as LSBU produce research that addresses significant applied and translational research, making tangible social and societal challenges and impacts economic impact. We are perfectly placed to contribute to achieving Government programmes such as positively on individuals, its Levelling-Up agenda. Over the following pages you will communities and society. find a few examples of the real world problems that LSBU’s academics are working to solve – from reducing domestic energy consumption to helping local traders with their relocation decisions.

Our impactful research not only underpins our commitment to being an enterprising, civic university, it The DARLab contains a Multi-function Robotic also helps us provide a high calibre Platform for Architectural Applications, a education for all of our students robotic platform able to process different materials with custom equipment and tools. by ensuring our teaching always It consists of an industrial robotic arm in reflects the latest, cutting-edge combination with quick-change plates. developments within industry.

30 | lsbu.ac.uk Real World Impact | 31 A revolutionary low carbon smart energy grid

Consumers and businesses based By drawing on waste heat produced The ground-breaking engineering in UK cities stand to benefit from by data centres that support the science behind GreenSCIES has a revolutionary low carbon smart Internet, the smart grid will channel been developed by the GreenSCIES energy grid resulting from a research energy from the Internet to power consortium – a collection of 16 project spearheaded by LSBU’s homes, offices and transport business partners including a “People often assume that Professor Graeme Maidment, in networks of the future. number of small and medium- partnership with Transport for sized enterprises (SMEs), under the universities only work with With the Mayor of London’s goal of London (TfL) and Islington Council. umbrella InnovateUK and funded by ensuring that the Capital achieves large corporations, but UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) GreenSCIES (Green Smart zero-carbon status by 2050, this GreenSCIES demonstrates through the Government’s Industrial Community Integrated Energy study is a vital initiative in exploring Strategy Challenge Fund. how at London South Bank System) aims to deliver a low carbon the possibilities of using waste heat University we have been and low cost transport, power and to help power London’s homes and able to bring together over heat to a total of 12,500 homes in businesses, cutting energy costs a dozen small business the London Borough of Islington, and reducing carbon emissions. The enterprises to deliver a and Sandwell in the West Midlands. impact of LSBU’s research reaches well beyond the Capital and will be When constructed, the system will project with international relevant wherever there are sources deliver low carbon heat, mobility potential. Applied research of unwanted or unused heat, for and power to an estimated 33,000 of this kind also plays a key example large data centres, industry residents and nearly 70 local or mine water. role in enriching teaching at businesses in Islington. The new LSBU, ensuring that students smart energy grid will help reduce are given up to the minute carbon emissions by an estimated information, directly informed 80% (against conventional systems) by the University’s work with while addressing fuel poverty by providing a significant reduction of industry.” consumer bills. Asa Barber, As a ‘fifth-generation’ energy Dean of the School of network, GreenSCIES goes further Engineering than previous projects in the UK. The system works by sharing heating and cooling between buildings, to ensure a balanced energy supply across the network. Waste heat is captured from secondary heat sources - including office buildings, data centres and the public transport network. The temperature of the waste heat is raised or reduced using heat pumps before being distributed to homes, businesses and communities, all year round.

32 | lsbu.ac.uk Real World Impact | 33 New Joint Research and STEM for Britain 2020 at the Innovation Centre to boost House of Commons the Building Services Sector Dr Sevan Harput, Lecturer in the At the start of this year, to meet Division of Electrical and Electronic the UK’s future obligation to reduce Engineering, was awarded a grant carbon emissions by 80%, LSBU in March by the Royal Society to agreed the launch of a new joint develop new ultrasound transducer research and innovation centre technologies. with the world-renowned Building “The new BSRIA research centre In the same month, Dr Harput was Services Research and Innovation Successfully ‘Spinning Out’ will focus on finding innovative also selected to showcase his Association (BSRIA). solutions to these problems, research regarding super-resolution Dr Perry Xiao, Associate Professor LSBU is one of the leading while providing leadership ultrasound imaging in the Engineering in the School of Engineering, has universities in the country for to deliver safe, affordable Sciences Session of STEM for BRITAIN pioneered the use of Opto-thermal educating and training building and sustainable domestic 2020 at the Houses of Parliament. transient emission radiometry services engineers, with our technology. He has successfully STEM for BRITAIN is a major scientific graduates accounting for around environments for communities translated this into two commercial poster competition and exhibition 60% of Building Services Engineers in the UK and globally.” products, the AquaFlux evaporimeter which has been held in Parliament employed in the UK construction and the Epsilon contact imaging Professor George Ofori, since 1997, and is organised by the sector every year. The new BSRIA- system, now marketed by LSBU Parliamentary & Scientific Committee. LSBU Innovation Centre (BALTIC) Dean of the School of spin-out company, Biox Systems Ltd. It aims to foster greater dialogue and will support building services in the Architecture and Built engagement between early-stage Established in 2000, Biox Systems construction sector by promoting Environment researchers and Parliamentarians on Ltd is a pioneering developer and collaborative research between issues relating to ground-breaking manufacturer of research grade LSBU’s School of Architecture and frontier UK research. scientific instruments. Clients and the Built Environment (BEA) include 21 hospitals in the UK, and BSRIA. It will also enhance Super-resolution ultrasound Europe, China, South Korea, employment opportunities for technology, on which Dr Harput Australia and the USA; universities, LSBU students through the access presented, involves microvascular and international cosmetic to BSRIA members that the technology that can enable real- companies such as Unilever, P&G, partnership affords. time microscopic imaging in deep L’Oréal and Johnson and Johnson. tissue. Super-resolution has already Around 80% of the UK’s existing real been successfully demonstrated pre- With a growing customer base of estate accounts for more than 40% clinically and clinically by Dr Harput. 70 organisations in 2013 to more of UK carbon emissions. In order to than 200 in 2019, generating total meet the UK’s future obligation to The SPEED Ultrasound Lab at LSBU, sales of about £2.4m in the same reduce carbon emissions by 80%, it which Dr Harput leads, aims to period, Biox Systems Ltd is one of is imperative to focus on developing develop new imaging and sensing LSBU’s most successful spin-out research and innovation to help technologies using acoustic waves companies to date. improve the quality of existing, at ultrasonic frequencies. Its focus sometimes neglected, buildings. is on high frame-rate ultrasound Not all research is about creating imaging, super-resolution methods, new technology. Innovation in areas 3D ultrasound imaging, signal such as public service delivery, Professor Dave Phoenix and BSRIA Chairman, Tom Smith, signing an processing for biomedical imaging organisational behaviour and agreement to launch the new BSRIA-LSBU and ultrasound sensor modelling culture can also have profound Innovation Centre (BALTIC) and development. social and economic impacts.

34 | lsbu.ac.uk Real World Impact | 35 In addition, The Landmark Group, LSBU Business School has a long which operates 30 million square feet of retail space and employs 55,000 people in 22 countries, has tradition of modelling consumer adopted this same model to support many store location decisions across choice behaviour and has previously the world. All retailers know that footfall conducted high street vitality studies is important, but few have the analytical capability to apply on behalf of Council across complex gravitational models to exploit existing passing trade. The model Dr Graham has developed eight retail centres in the borough to provides a useful ‘rule of thumb’ with which to evaluate the footfall at a help inform their Economic Wellbeing location, as well as a diagnostic tool that delivers more useful insight than the ‘this time last year’ metric that Strategy, as well as providing insight most retailers operate. to local traders and BIDs, enabling Dr Graham has also been working with local social enterprise company Treeshepherd, to provide workshops them to develop more effective for displaced businesses with further advice and guidance being The new Castle Square development provided by students through LSBU’s where 26 local traders have relocated marketing strategies. Business Solution Centre The decline of bricks-and-mortar retail is an ongoing challenge for many local authorities in terms of maintaining sustainable and vibrant communities. The rate of The value of footfall to small store closures is attributed to a wide range of factors, each of which has and independent retailers a potential cumulative effect on total footfall as a location becomes Follow-on research is now helping to marginally less and less attractive. advise the relocation of a number of businesses displaced by the ongoing regeneration of . Dr Charles Graham, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, has produced footfall assessments to inform the relocation decisions of 73 independent traders affected by the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre redevelopment.

36 | lsbu.ac.uk Real World Impact | 37 Improving employment and In response to this, a collaborative educational prospects for project team, led by Nicola Thomas, autistic people Professor of Kidney Care at LSBU, is conducting an externally funded For the last seven years, Nicki minimisation within the schools that pilot project looking at new places, Martin, Professor of Social Justice took part, enhancing the learning outside hospitals or GP surgeries, and Inclusive Education, has experience for autistic pupils. where people can go to measure undertaken research that has and talk about their blood pressure. Most recently, in response to the challenged the low involvement Covid-19 crisis, Professor Nicki In collaboration with a local of autistic people in the workforce Martin has developed guidance organisation, the BME Forum, the and the under-representation of on supporting autistic pupils and team will test the feasibility of training people with autism in academia. students to learn at home while barbers in the London Borough of The research has contributed to under lockdown. The guidance Croydon to measure and give advice both a new understanding of autism was implemented by three local about blood pressure. Barbershops as a different way of thinking, and authorities and a Multi Academy are open long hours, are located to increased awareness that some Trust. It has been used as a thinking in all communities and are often autistic people have intellectual task for MA students at Birmingham, frequented by men of BAME heritage. impairments whereas others are Strathclyde, Sheffield and Sheffield This makes them ideal, novel settings intellectually able. Hallam Universities, as well as at LSBU. for addressing health inequalities . Between 2014 and 2016, the Cygnet Some barbers in Croydon are also Mentoring Project was set up by already talking with clients about Professor Martin to develop, trial mental health in a project called Mind and evaluate a mentoring scheme Finding novel settings to My Hair, Hear My Mind. designed with input from autistic measure and discuss blood In this way, it is hoped that the people, their families and supporters, pressure project can encourage participants with matched pairs meeting once a to have their blood pressure week for one hour, over a six-month High blood pressure does not always monitored with access to advice period. Participants on the autism have noticeable symptoms, but, left and medication (through local spectrum found their mentoring untreated, it can greatly increase pharmacists) if it is too high. They experience helped enable them the risk of strokes, heart attacks, will also have the chance to talk to progress towards self-identified kidney disease and other serious with other clients about their blood goals. conditions. Around one-third of pressure and increase awareness of it UK adults might have high blood In 2016, academics led by Professor by discussing their experiences with pressure, although many will not Martin in LSBU’s School of Law and friends and family. It is hoped that realise it. Social Science were involved in a this sort of community project will project working with both SEND and In the UK, high blood pressure is pave the way for new collaborations, mainstream schools in South London common among black Caribbean particularly in light of the University’s across an eighteen month period people. However, those of black, plans for a new Croydon Campus, to improve the sensory experience Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) due to open in 2021. for autistic pupils in the school heritage (and particularly men) environment. Developing a greater often, for a wide variety of reasons, understanding of the link between have poorer engagement with sensory issues and ‘challenging healthcare settings and are less behaviour’, led to a new focus on likely to have their blood pressure the indicators of distress and their monitored or controlled.

38 | lsbu.ac.uk Real World Impact | 39 Access to Opportunity

40 | lsbu.ac.uk Access to Opportunity | 41 – teaching Entry Level 1 functional LSBU builds opportunity through partnership skills through to GCSEs in Maths and English. The courses are provided as flexibly as possible – including part- - ensuring that we are actively widening participation, time, short-courses and teaching at evening and weekends – to ensure engaging with our communities, and maintaining as many local residents as possible can benefit. In 2019/20 the College strong relationships with employers. supported 1,326 adults to achieve a Maths and/or English qualification. For many of them, this will have Through strategic local and global partnerships, the been one of their first experiences of achievement – attributable in part to the consistent and focused support University works to remove barriers to success and the College provides. In addition to this, the College create opportunities for individuals, employers and teaches ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) courses at communities. Ranked in the top 200 universities its Centre – providing an opportunity for those who have worldwide for Social Impact, and 23rd in the world for recently moved to the UK (including refugees) to achieve a sufficient level of English, as well as knowledge about reducing inequality*, over the next five years we aim life in the UK and British values, to enable them to integrate into society. to positively impact the lives of 1 million people. Upon completing the course, many learners go on to follow careers in areas such as health and social care, utilising skills and qualifications they acquired in their home countries. 1,630 people completed ESOL courses at Supporting adults to achieve the Brixton Centre in 2019/20. basic skills LSBU Group works with over 150 businesses including SMEs and major Half of young people start adult life companies; public sector organisations without achieving Level 2 (GCSE) including housing associations and the English and Maths. Adults who lack NHS; and local Government partners. literacy and numeracy skills tend to At the heart of this partnership be less productive at work, earn lower approach is the Clarence Centre – wages, are more likely to suffer from ill home to our tenant community and health and experience social exclusion. enterprise team. Over the following Lambeth College utilises funding pages are some examples of these from the Adult Education Budget partnerships and the benefits they each year in order to provide these have brought to our students, local *Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2020 learners with a second chance communities and businesses.

42 | lsbu.ac.uk Access to Opportunity | 43 Developing Immersive The Mayor’s Construction Technology with European Academy and LSBU Regional Development Funds The MCA-LSBU Hub is a partnership The University continues to be the of South (Lambeth, leading higher education provider Lewisham and Southwark) and LSBU, of European Regional Development Lambeth College, the Skills Centre, Fund (ERDF) funded business and South Thames College and Lewisham innovation support programmes in Construction Hub. Together with London. To date, LSBU has secured developers, contractors, construction more than £11 million of ERDF funding SMEs and schools, the project aims and is contributing almost £6 million to work collaboratively to connect in match funding to these projects. the dots and assist both employers and those wanting to work in the We are currently delivering seven construction sector. programmes covering a diverse range of sectors including health The LSBU hub is one of seven across tech, low carbon and food tech. The Clarence London, and is the only higher Over the next 3 years, LSBU aims to Centre for education institution in the capital Enterprise and support 1000 SMEs and create 140 Innovation to have been nominated as a skills jobs through these programmes. courtyard training and employment hub partner by the MCA. One such programme, launched at the start of the academic year, is A Vibrant Tenant Community The Hub members will explore Accelerating the Creative Economy key areas including job readiness, The Clarence Centre for Enterprise Through Immersive Technology (ACE increasing diversity, T-Levels and and Innovation provides workspaces IT), which aims to support London modern methods of construction. for more than 60 businesses Start-Ups and SMEs to conceptualise, that engage in curriculum The vision of the Hub is to establish research and develop innovative development, guest lecturing, a world-class construction concepts, products and services student engagement and research skills programme that can offer utilising immersive technology. projects. Over the last year our businesses the opportunity to The project, delivered in partnership tenant community produced £100m upskill their current workforce, between LSBU and London College combined income, created and offer apprenticeship training, and of Communication, UAL provides safeguarded 50 jobs and raised promote vacancies and work eligible businesses with free access £6.5m in finance. experience placements. to specialist workshops, one-to-one One recent collaboration saw consultations with experts as well as the launch of a brand new app – academic and technical guidance. Interviewerr - which lets users record, tag and code interviews in real time. It was developed by Phil Hardy, an LSBU Alumnus and employee of Clarence Centre Tenant Silicon ACE IT provides access to Rhino, with help from a number of academic and industry LSBU researchers, PhD students and expertise, as well as specialist audiovisual, digital and staff who contributed their thoughts creative technology facilities and ideas through user testing.

44 | lsbu.ac.uk Access to Opportunity | 45 £6.25 million award to LSBU Climate Change and Public Consortium to support the Health in Southwark growth of editing and post- Students from University Academy production facilities of Engineering South Bank made a valuable contribution to the London According to the Department for Each Hub will have a studio, two Borough of Southwark’s Annual Culture, Media and Sport, the UK’s edit suites and a co-working space Public Health Report 2019. The report digital sectors are growing at a rate where SMEs can access specialist considered the impact of climate that’s six times faster than any other computing for EPP with cloud- change on health and wellbeing industry. More widely, the creative based production facilities to enable to stimulatie discussion and industries now make a greater UK firms to work with Hollywood, contributing to the Council’s Climate contribution to the UK’s economy Bollywood, or any production centre Change Strategy. Pupils from the than the automotive, aerospace, life worldwide. Academy took part in a workshop sciences and oil and gas industries The project also supports the organised by the Council as part of combined. Government-backed Thames the drafting process and the report A consortium including LSBU, Estuary Production Corridor that was launched via a video, featuring Screen South and Canterbury will link existing and new production the pupils’ artwork and voiced by Christ Church University, has been centres in film and television from two Year 7 students. awarded £6.25 million of European along the Thames Regional Development Funding, Estuary. The project began in July one of the largest European grants 2020 and will run for three and a half Map of the The Thames Estuary ever awarded to the Creative years, continuing as a production Production Corridor produced by the Industries sector. The aim is to create network thereafter. Authority a network across the South East Local Enterprise Area, of Editing and Post Production (EPP) specialists experienced in the manipulation of screen-based images for television, film, gaming, advertising and corporate communications. EPP specialists use a variety of techniques and technologies including animation, Visual Effects (VFX) and Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) for use in television, film, gaming, advertising and corporate communications. The project will see the creation of three production centre ‘hubs’ for EPP built at Maidstone Television Studios (led by LSBU), Folkestone’s Glassworks Centre (led by Screen South), and at a new creative arts building at Canterbury Christ Church University.

46 | lsbu.ac.uk Access to Opportunity | 47 LSBU Civic Advice and Sustainability is integral to Consultancy Service

Alongside the success of LSBU’s how we operate at LSBU. We existing partnerships, we also understand that navigating a large have been reducing our carbon organisation like a University can sometimes be difficult. That's why we emissions year on year for almost in 2020 we launched the LSBU Civic Advice and Consultancy Service a decade and we are committed (civiclsbu.co.uk). The service provides easy access into the University for all to delivering course programmes, organisations wishing to explore opportunities for collaboration. In academic initiatives and addition to clearly laying out the breadth of academic expertise and research projects focused on the services we offer, it also provides How Accountants can Save a single point of contact - ensuring the Planet that enquiries always reach the most sustainable development. relevant person within the University In addition to their ongoing public straight away. Research Today and Professional Although our South London Lecture series, the Business School community is at the heart of what we this year co-hosted the Annual do, the LSBU student body is drawn Accounting Conference 2019 with from over 130 countries. We have an PQ Magazine. The event focused international team of academics and Sustainability and Climate on how accountants can save we are developing new transnational the planet, and brought in guests Action Event Series links all the time. As an institution, from prestigious accounting firms we’re local and global. In June, the University hosted the A diverse range of topics included: across London, industry experts, first part of its Sustainability and de-carbonisation, sustainable sustainability enthusiasts, experts Climate Action Event Series, with a construction methods, the utilisation and students. Talks included how week-long event focusing on the of waste heat, and the effect of to ‘bring climate change onto the theme of Climate, Carbon, Energy Covid-19 on tackling the climate balance sheet’, the economic and Resources. emergency. impact of declining bee numbers In 2020 the University and treating climate change as received a 5-Star rating As well as LSBU’s own academic With delivery taking place online, financial risk. staff, students and alumni, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in the QS World University representatives from leading attendees were able to join in the The University is also the headline Rankings, including 5-Stars environmental organisations discussions from as far away as sponsor of the Southwark Business for ‘Internationalisation’. including the COP 26 team in the India, New Zealand and the USA. Awards 2020, celebrating the Cabinet Office, The Environment achievements of the borough’s Agency and Extinction Rebellion, vibrant business community, with joined to deliver keynotes and take the event taking place virtually this part in panel discussions. year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

48 | lsbu.ac.uk Access to Opportunity | 49 New Department, The largest trans national Familiar Faces partnership in MENA region

2020 saw the LSBU International Our collaboration with the British Office replaced with a brand-new University in Egypt (BUE) offers an standalone department - LSBU exemplar for transnational education Global. partnerships. As the largest and most successful collaboration in the LSBU Global will manage the “After the most successful MENA region, we now validate 24 oversight and project management International Recruitment year undergraduate and postgraduate of all current and future on record, LSBU Global will courses for over 4,500 students. Transnational Education, with a remit to keep pace with the growth and concentrate on expanding Our joint supervisions for PhD progression of educational delivery Transnational Education” students enable BUE students mechanisms around the world. Stuart Bannerman, to study over the summer at the Southwark campus working with LSBU’s focus on professional and Pro Vice-Chancellor their LSBU supervisor. These shared technical education makes it of International supervisions have also created particular interest to many overseas new opportunities for joint research partners and governments who see activities and research informed the expansion of higher education teaching. We have developed a as key to their development. This is range of Study Abroad and Summer demonstrated by our conversations School opportunities with BUE, A Centre for Chinese and ongoing projects in Colombia, enabling student exchanges from India, Egypt, Uzbekistan, the EU Language and Culture in both institutions. The ongoing success and South America. South London of the partnership can be attributed By sharing our values and teaching to the close working relationship that Our Confucius Institute is the largest internationally, LSBU Global aims to has evolved between academic and in the world and one of the biggest build bridges and to increase the professional service group staff at Chinese language testing centres in social capital, overall confidence, both institutions, enabling the sharing Europe. Over the last year, more than and resilience of our students and developing of good practice. 13,000 students in 64 schools have whilst encouraging positive social directly benefitted from Mandarin development in the countries we language and Chinese culture operate. lessons, including in martial arts, dance and calligraphy, provided by the Confucius Institute. The Institute also holds Chinese cultural performance and workshops, art exhibitions and wellbeing initiatives that are enjoyed by thousands of people each year. By conducting its own research and engaging with Chinese universities in the process, it also helps to provide international placements for our students.

50 | lsbu.ac.uk Access to Opportunity | 51 Fit for the Future

52 | lsbu.ac.uk Fit for the Future | 53 LEAPing Ahead The environment in which LEAP is not an acronym, it is the University’s five year digital we operate is increasingly transformation programme. Now in its second year, the LEAP programme is seeking to create demanding and complex. To a distinctive student experience underpinned by transformed continually improve the service technology, processes and ways of working as an organisation, and value we provide to our including the deployment of both a new Customer Relationship Management System and an stakeholders, we are making upgraded Student Records System. strategic investments that will The programme will enable: • Better course organisation and enable us to operate as one management customer-centred organisation, • Students having the support, flexibility and information to which is accountable, efficient plan and use their time well • Staff being able to track and contact students more and effective. easily, enabling improvements to student retention and progression • Efficiency gains due to reduction of repetitive processes • Improved clarity around offer- making to support student admissions This includes investing in: The Coronavirus crisis has The LEAP team has, throughout accelerated the need to explore • our staff to ensure we attract, the ‘discovery and design’ new ways of learning and working. enable and retain a diverse group phase of the project, worked This requires improving our physical of high-performing people; collaboratively with LSBU staff and campus and our online provision, for students to ensure the solutions • our buildings, to develop a both education and student support delivered are the right ones for the sustainable campus fit for the services, moving away from the institution and learners. The team 21st century; and traditional model of large lecture has now moved onto the technical theatres and towards new delivery • our infrastructure, to deliver a build stage, which began in the methods such as blending online first class digital environment late summer. tutorials with smaller seminars. for our students.

54 | lsbu.ac.uk Fit for the Future | 55 A 21st Century Campus LSBU Croydon ZONES is Although the Coronavirus crisis has With a £5bn investment programme, South London and the Gatwick shown the importance of having Croydon is becoming one of triangle. The campus will also our learning the capability to deliver teaching London’s largest growth centres. provide business courses, giving remotely, there are many learning In September 2021, the University will students easy access to the thriving activities that cannot be delivered open its new LSBU Croydon campus. Croydon business community as well environment online, and the University is making With a healthcare focus, LSBU as global links via Gatwick airport significant investments to improve Croydon will help the NHS tackle a just 15 minutes away. transformation our Southwark campus. severe shortage of nurses across The cornerstone of the ZONES programme is the redevelopment of View from the top of programme. the stiars over the new our London Road Building to create Library and Learning Through a new dedicated Learning Hub Resources space in and student zone. The renovated London Road due to building will include: a new Library be completed in 2021 modernising and Learning Resources space, group and quiet study space, our facilities, open access computer rooms and reconfigured Academy of Sport and learning catering facilities. The building will also provide a new cycle park with changing, locker spaces and and shower facilities and, through significant inbuilt energy efficiency technology, measures, greatly reduce the campus carbon footprint, in line with we will have a LSBU’s sustainability agenda. The London Road renovation is due Artist’s impression of campus that for completion in summer 2021. LSBU Croydon opening in 2021 is both fit for purpose and fit for the future of LSBU and its surrounding communities.

56 | lsbu.ac.uk Fit for the Future | 57 A Flagship Technical College At the heart of our ambitions As part of this ambition, we are LSBU Group is nothing without its advancing plans to develop a dedicated staff. We continually strive for LSBU Group is creating clear flagship technical college in Vauxhall, to create a transformational and South London. The modern, industry- inclusive culture, which is people- driven facilities will provide career- centric, values-led and ambitious, pathways for local residents from led opportunities for individuals of all so enabling the Group to empower ages and backgrounds. staff and attract and retain a diverse secondary school through further range of skilled individuals. We are establishing clear occupational progression pipelines and higher education and into that support young people and adults to undertake level 2-4 high quality careers. technical education. Through the pathways and the Vauxhall Technical College we aim to address “Lambeth Council is delighted ‘the missing middle’ in our education to see Lambeth College enter system both by providing high this new and exciting chapter Artist’s impression of quality technical education and by Vauxhall Technical College addressing the broken rungs in the in its development. Its long educational ladder between Level 3 history of offering technical (A-Level equivalent) and Level 4 and vocational education in (1st degree year equivalent). South London will be further The College will include: enhanced by the state of the • STEAM and Health and Life art development in Vauxhall, Sciences Centres, designed in providing technical further collaboration with employers education for the 21st century. to create realistic workplace We look forward to the college environments; making an even greater • An Employer Centre placing contribution to the success employers at the heart of the of local learners, employers, College, facilitating growth in communities and to South apprenticeships and employer sponsored education at every level; London as a whole.” • A ‘digital spine’, encouraging Andrew Travers, innovation through specially Chief Executive, London created digital hubs that provide Borough of Lambeth learners with access to the sector specific technologies they will find in the workplace. Part-funded by the the College is due for completion in Autumn 2022.

58 | lsbu.ac.uk Fit for the Future | 59 Athena SWAN Bronze Charter Reducing our Gender Pay Gap In April 2020, we were awarded our LSBU’s (mean) gender pay gap has first Athena SWAN Bronze Charter steadily reduced from 13.25% in by professional membership body 2009 to 5.2% in 2019. This is not only Advance HE. significantly lower than UK industry as a whole (17.1%) but also the higher The award recognises the significant “This achievement recognises education sector (16.1%). work the University has undertaken the importance LSBU places through our Equality, Diversity and on embracing the principles Inclusion Strategy, to achieve a strong foundation in addressing of equality and diversity as gender bias and developing an fundamental to the University’s inclusive culture that values and growth. We can now look empowers all staff within the forward to building on these University. excellent foundations in future, “Whilst we’re pleased that our The Athena SWAN Bronze Charter is ensuring equality and fairness Gender Pay Gap trajectory typically awarded to an institution for all.” that has successfully achieved is reducing, we’re not significant progress in: Professor Pat Bailey, complacent. We know that LSBU Provost • gender equality and there is much more we can representation in the workforce; do as we start to broaden our thinking and use our data, • a four-year plan that builds on this assessment, including information insights, best practice and on activities that are already in innovation to ensure that our place and what has been learned interventions accelerate the from these; pace of change.” • an organisational structure, Marcelle Moncrieffe-Johnson, including a self-assessment team, LSBU Group Director of to carry forward proposed actions. People and Organisation Good Work Standard Development In March 2020, LSBU became the first UK University to be accredited as a Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard Employer. The Standard brings together best employment practice and links to resources and support from across London to help employers improve their organisations, setting a benchmark that the Mayor wants every London employer to work LSBU Staff towards and achieve.

60 | lsbu.ac.uk Fit for the Future | 61 Financial Summary and Governance

62 | lsbu.ac.uk Fit for the Future | 63 Income Breakdown Expenditure Breakdown

£192,954,000 £192,267,000

7 6 1 1 5 2

4 2 4 3 3

1. £106,682,000 5. £8,061,000 Tuition Fees Residences and Catering 2. £45,037,000 6. £5,464,000 Funding Grants Research Grants 3. £16,960,000 7. £860,000 1. 39% 3. 13% International Other Student Facing Activity Professional Services 4. £9,890,000 2. 24% 4. 24% Enterprise Income Student Facing Services Investments

64 | lsbu.ac.uk Fit for the Future | 65 Expenditure Breakdown 1. 38% Student Facing Activity 2. 28% Student Facing Services

£75,152,000 £46,142,000

1 2 1 2 8 6 7 3 6 3 5 4 5 4

1. £15,856,000 5. £2,237,000 Student Services Alumni and Student Comms 1. £54,898,000 4. £3,823,000 2. £8,869,000 6. £1,891,000 Academic Staff Bursaries, Scholarships and School Estate Academic Standards targeted Student support 2. £5,162,000 3. £8,829,000 7. £1,550,000 Other Academic Costs 5. £3,754,000 Information Technology and Registry Course Administration Digital Learning 3. £4,337,000 8. £1,006,000 Technical Support 6. £3,178, 000 4. £5,904,000 Student Union Equipment and Learning Materials Libraries and Learning Materials

66 | lsbu.ac.uk Fit for the Future | 67 Expenditure Breakdown 3. 13% Other Professional Services 4. 24% Investments in enhancing teaching & research infrastructure & the student experience

£45,201,000

£25,772,000

1 2 1

6 5 2 3 4 3 5 4

1. £11,259,000 4. £8,544,000 1. £11,293,000 4. £2,247,000 Research and Enterprise Costs Other Estate Costs Communications Policy & Legal 2. £11,146,000 5. £3,654,000 2. £6,180,000 5. £2,047,000 Depreciation (cost of building Interest & Other financing costs Finance & Planning University Leadership Estate with equipment) 6. £1,362,000 3. £4,005,000 3. £9,236,000 Civic Engagement Human Resources Other Investments

68 | lsbu.ac.uk Fit for the Future | 69 Governance London South Bank University South Bank Colleges South Bank Academies Board Board of Governors Board of Trustees of Trustees

• Jerry Cope • Prof Ruth Farwell CBE • Hitesh Tailor Chair of the Board and Pro Chair of the Board Chair Chancellor • Andrew Owen • Richard Flatman • Michael Cutbil Vice Chair of the Board & Chair of Chair of Audit and Risk Committee Vice-Chair of the Board, Pro the Audit Committee • Tony Giddings Chancellor and Chair of Finance, • Sue Dare Planning and Resources Committee • Nicole Louis Chair of Quality Improvement • Duncan Brown, Committee & Safeguarding Lead • Hilary McCallion Chair of Group Audit and Risk Chair of Remuneration Committee • Steve Balmont Committee Lead Trustee for Remuneration • Chris Mallaband • John Cole • Prof David Phoenix OBE • Fiona Morey • Prof Peter Fidler CEO, Accounting Officer and • Dr Mee Ling Ng OBE Chair of Academic Quality and • Mark Lemmon • Shakira Martin Improvement Committee • Dr Mee Ling Ng OBE • Cllr Jacqui Dyer MBE • Diana Lesley Morrison CBE • Prof Hilary McCallion CBE • Nigel Duckers • Prof David Phoenix OBE Senior Independent Director Staff Trustee • Jeremy Parr • Theresa Quinton Chair of Remuneration Committee Student Trustee • Rashda Rana SC, Chair of Major Projects and Investment Committee • Deepa Shah • Vinay Tanna • Prof David Phoenix OBE Each part of the LSBU Group is • Tony Roberts headed by a Board of Governors Staff Governor or Trustees, which is responsible for overseeing the institution’s activities • Prof Nicki Martin and determining its future direction Staff Governor in contributing to the overarching • Harriet Tollerson Group aim of transforming lives, Student Governor communities, businesses and society through applied education • Max Smith and insight. Student Governor

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