Our mission, values and strategy
Our Mission and Values articulate what type of institution we are and what is important to us.
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Mission
We offer a transformative experience, generating knowledge and stimulating self-discovery through creative, radical and intellectually rigorous thinking and practice.
Values
Our Mission is underpinned by the following values:
Achieving academic excellence
- Pursuing intellectual curiosity
- Encouraging the highest standards of research and practice
- Building on our diverse strengths through interdisciplinary imagination
- Maximising the interaction of teaching and research
Radical and innovative thinking
- Cultivating a unique and creative approach to all our subjects
- Daring to think differently and to challenge the norms
- Embracing new ideas with energy and reflection
Respecting the individual
- Encouraging individuality and nurturing talent
- Enabling freedom of thought and expression
- Nurturing an environment of openness and tolerance
Promoting access and diversity
- Enabling a wide range of people to benefit from our learning opportunities
- Recruiting students and staff from all backgrounds and experiences
- Strengthening our local connections as we extend our international reach
Supporting our students and staff
- Creating a responsive and collaborative learning environment
- Providing inspiring opportunities for personal and social development
- Enhancing the life skills of employable and enterprising global citizens
Creating change, locally and globally
- Being socially aware and socially engaged
- Actively promoting sustainability
- Fostering a social and intellectual community within, and beyond, Goldsmiths
A new institutional strategy
Goldsmiths is developing and delivering a new institutional strategy in academic year 2024/25, which draws on our heritage as an agent of change with a proud history of partnership in social action and cultural progress.