Strategic Goal 1
Inspiring Opportunities
With sector-leading indicators of teaching quality, support and satisfaction, quality is key to the Inspiring Opportunities that Lincoln Bishop University creates through learning and teaching, and research and knowledge exchange.
A strong academic proposition motivated by public service inspires students to study at Lincoln Bishop to pursue their ambitions through accessible and imaginative programmes designed to provide pathways to the professions, as well as progression to further study.
Inspiring Opportunities promote positive change through excellent student outcomes and valued contributions to the advancement of knowledge and understanding. As a related consequence, the professional standing of academic and senior professional service staff continues to rise, increasing institutional influence nationally and internationally within the academic community and across the higher education sector more broadly.
With partners encouraged to access the University’s services through its open approach to research and innovation, as well as its portfolio of work-based training, the University’s Inspiring Opportunities are demonstrably contributing to business growth, competitiveness and impact.
A distinctive and coherent academic portfolio featuring education, health, applied humanities and business services.
Widening access and participation by promoting equality of opportunity.
Outreach activities in person and online to encourage engagement or re-engagement in higher education, with institution-wide
advocacy for the value of lifelong learning.
Learning opportunities that respond to the Local Skills Improvement Plan for Greater Lincolnshire as well as national priorities for higher skills, including digital skills.
Flexible modes of study responsive to student need and innovative in response to the Lifelong Learning Entitlement, with Inspiring Opportunities available in person and online; on campus and in the workplace; full-time, part time and short course, modular learning.
A distinctive and specialised research profile of international standing in Education, English, History (including Archaeology), Psychology and Theology.
A commitment to scholarship across the academic staff team stimulating innovation in the academic portfolio and in learning and teaching.
Increasing student participation in postgraduate research, with institutional commitment to academic excellence and the achievement of Research Degree Awarding Powers.
Engaging with education, business and community partners through the Lincolnshire Open Research and Innovation Centre (LORIC) to address challenges and opportunities with research-informed ideas and insight.
Lincoln Bishop University conducts high-quality research. We place emphasis on Education alongside other established disciplines including Archaeology, English, History, and Psychology, while also expanding into new areas such as Business, Health and Sport. Our research performed well in the most recent national evaluation, being recognised for its quality, as Internationally Excellent and World-Leading.
Executive Dean of Research & Knowledge Exchange, Professor of Local, Regional and Landscape History
