Stocktake Report 2017/18 A review of progress against Manchester 2020: The University of Manchester’s Strategic Plan Stocktake Report 1 Introduction The 2017/18 Stocktake Report provides a detailed appraisal of progress against the goals and key performance indicators of the University’s Strategic Plan, Manchester 2020, and forms a key component of the University’s annual planning and accountability cycle. This is the third Stocktake to report on the goals, enabling strategies and updated key performance indicators in the refreshed Manchester 2020 that was published in October 2015. Our University is continuing to £5.8 million from the National perform well during a challenging Institute of Health Research for year for the UK higher education the Greater Manchester Patient sector with increasing external Safety Translational Research pressures and global competition. Centre and almost £4.3 million We have many great assets: a from the Economic and Social fantastic location in a vibrant Research Council and the Global and forward-thinking city; an Challenges Research Fund for the attractive and evolving campus; Dams 2.0 project on the social and a cosmopolitan and lively student environmental impacts of dams. population; and dedicated staff, We also welcomed significant many of whom are amongst the investment from Innovate UK to leaders in their disciplines. We support our collaborative work have made progress against many in fighting disease and from the of our ambitious strategic goals, Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund including our highest rankings in to research the use of AI in nuclear two international league tables, waste clear-up. and we remain extremely popular as a destination for students. We We played a key role in the also recognise that there are areas Industrial Strategy Commission’s that require further improvement report to government and and where we will need to focus to signed a contract to establish seize opportunities and overcome the Thomas Ashton Institute for significant emerging challenges. Risk and Regulatory Research in partnership with the Health and In 2017/18, we attracted more Safety Executive. We launched than £368 million in external the Manchester China Institute, research funding (including Higher supported by a £5 million gift. Education Funding Council for We also established Creative England grants) to the University and Manchester, a major strategic welcomed news of some significant project led by the School of Arts, investment. This included a £13.3 Languages and Cultures that aims million core award for our Cancer to position our University as a Research UK Manchester Institute, leading player in the creative sector £7.5 million from the Science and at local, national and international Technology Facilities Council for level, and have built on the launch the eMerlin/VLBI National Facility, of Digital Futures. 2 The University of Manchester Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell President and Vice-Chancellor We have continued to invest in was encouraging to see that a new providing an outstanding learning and ranking from Times Higher Education student experience for our students of teaching excellence placed us and to identify areas of focus and seventh in Europe. distinctiveness in our teaching. For example, we have established Social responsibility is intertwined University of Manchester Worldwide with everything we do. Two of our as the vehicle for the University’s flagship initiatives, 10,000 Actions expansion of distance and blended and the Sustainability Challenge, learning. As part of our pioneering collectively won a national Green Stellify initiative for students to Gown award. Another of our unique gain wider experience outside their programmes, The Works, helped chosen degree programme, 4,757 its 4,000th local unemployed students participated in the Year person back into work. Our multi- 1 sustainability challenge, whilst award winning School Governor 1,350 students undertook the online Initiative has 905 staff and alumni Year 2 social justice challenge. The volunteering as school governors. programme has been embedded Our Manchester Access Programme as a core part of the prestigious has helped almost 2,000 students Stellify Award. from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain a place at the University, One of our students, Farhana and 29% of our undergraduate Choudhury, was the global winner students come from households in the education category at with an income of less than £25,000 the Undergraduate Awards, an a year. But we have more work to international competition described do to achieve our goals in equality, as ‘the junior Nobel Prize’. Another, diversity and inclusion for our staff Dean Lomax, was named in the and students. Junior Chamber International UK’s top ten outstanding young persons, We welcomed more than 1.3 million receiving the prize for scientific and/ visitors at our cultural institutions, or technology development. the Manchester Museum, the Whitworth, Jodrell Bank Discovery We remained the most Centre and The John Rylands popular university in the UK for Library. In February, Alistair Hudson, undergraduate applications, a champion of the ‘useful art’ according to UCAS figures. We movement – the idea that art should retained our position as the most be a tool for social change and targeted university for the UK’s top education, not merely an object of who were awarded prestigious Donal O’Donoghue an OBE and graduate employers, as reported by contemplation – was appointed the National Teaching Fellowships. Professor Pippa Tyrell was awarded High Fliers Research, while Higher new Director of both the Whitworth Professor Richard Marais was an MBE. Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and the city-council-run Manchester elected as Fellow of the Royal data for 2017 showed that 93% Art Gallery. In April, Esme Ward Society. Professor Jorgen Vestbo We celebrated a wide range of of our graduates headed straight became the first female Director of was elected to the Academy of anniversaries over the course of into employment or further study. the Manchester Museum, with the Medical Sciences. Professors the year, from the 80th anniversary Our student satisfaction score as ambition to make the Museum as of Alan Turing joining the University Georgina Waylen, Alan Warde and measured in the National Student relevant as possible to as many as to the 60th year of development Elena Lieven were elected as Fellows Survey (NSS) was 83%, which was possible by creating the UK’s most studies. It was the 70th anniversary of the British Academy. Dr Sarah lower than the 85% score last time imaginative and inclusive museum. of the NHS and the 100th of British Marie Hall won the inaugural Jo Cox we reported an outcome in 2016, Jodrell Bank was proposed to women getting the vote, historic but the same as the sector average UNESCO as the UK’s next candidate Prize for Public Service and Active moments in which University staff, in England and in line with a slight for World Heritage Site status. Citizenship to recognise the positive students and alumni played a national decline in NSS outcomes. impacts of her research. Professors significant part. We are investing tens of millions of A number of staff received Caroline Dive, Diane Coyle, Jeanette pounds in a new student experience recognition and awards during Winterson and Jaswinder Singh We are in the middle of an ambitious project to support students 2017/18. These included Professor Bamrah were each awarded a CBE, ten-year plan to create an through their university journey. It Judy Williams and Dr Colin Lumsden, Professors Chris Griffiths and inspiring and progressive campus Stocktake Report 3 Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell President and Vice-Chancellor environment that will benefit both (MECD). Moving to MECD in good deal of this year planning This report relates to 2017/18 staff and students, now and in the 2021/22 will reduce our running and delivering a comprehensive and, as such, by the time it goes future, and will focus our activities costs and carbon footprint, as programme of engagement with to print some details may be on to our main campus. Many of our well as bringing all our students our staff, students, alumni and key out of date and, where there new buildings, like the Graphene together on to one campus. The stakeholders on the future vision are more recent developments, Engineering and Innovation Centre move will also free up considerable for our University. As we approach these are highlighted. and the Henry Royce Institute, are land holdings in the north of the 2020, it is time to consider our completely funded by external campus, enabling the University to history and achievements, and ask sources. Others, like our Alliance play a significant role in the future bold questions about the type of Manchester Business School economic success of the city by institution we want to be as we enter redevelopment and the Schuster developing the site into a world- our next chapter. Annexe, are funded through a class innovation district over the combination of external and internal next 20 years. finance. In 2017/18 we invested £200 million in our capital plans. Our people remain integral to all we Nancy Rothwell do and I would like to thank our many President and Vice-Chancellor Progress continues to be made wonderful staff and students who in delivering the Manchester contributed to our achievements Engineering Campus Development over the past year. We spent a 4 The University of Manchester Strategic vision 2020 The University of