Department Strategic Review: 2025-2030
Help shape our department's direction and priorities for 2025-2030.
Find out what's happening and how to get involved.
Keep checking back as the process develops for more opportunities to feedback or get involved.
About the review
Our departmental strategic review helps us evaluate our current position, set our future direction, and create a framework to measure our progress. This internal review precedes the University's departmental review (due in 2026) and gives us an opportunity to:
- Celebrate our achievements and identify what's working well
- Assess changes in the healthcare landscape and emerging needs
- Identify opportunities and gaps in our portfolio
- Refine how we present ourselves and our work
- Review our current activities and priorities
- Guide decisions about structure, recruitment and investment
Our proposed direction
Working with the Senior Academic Committee, Departmental Strategic Committee and Head of Department, we've developed draft versions of our vision and mission:
Vision: Transform health experiences and outcomes for everyone through developing high-quality, fair and sustainable primary healthcare locally, nationally and globally.
Mission: Through world-class education, research and innovation, we advocate better ways to deliver primary healthcare, turning evidence into solutions that help all people live healthier lives.
We welcome your feedback on these statements through our engagement activities and feedback form - see 'Get Involved'.
Our areas of focus
The review concentrates on our core pillars of Research and Innovation, and Education - reflecting the University's primary purpose of advancing learning through teaching and research for public benefit. We're also examining five cross-cutting themes that influence all aspects of our work.
How we're developing the strategy
Working groups led by Senior Academic Committee members are examining each pillar and cross-cutting theme.
Each group will develop 2-5 key priorities and an action plan for their area, which will be reviewed by the Senior Academic and Departmental Strategic Committees.
Working group | Group Chair and Co-Chair |
Research | Andrew Farmer Gail Hayward |
Education | Sophie Park Richard Stevens |
Sustainability | Rafael Perera Nicola Small |
People & Culture | Sue Ziebland Geoff Wong |
Partnerships | Apo Tsiachristas Michael Kidd |
Data | Aziz Sheikh Nerys Astbury |
Infrastructure | Stavros Petrou Clare Bankhead |
Interested in joining a working group?
Complete our expression of interest form by Wednesday 4 December, 12 noon.
Membership of working groups will be kept small and members chosen for their breadth of views and relevance of experience. Full details can be found on SharePoint.
Get involved
Your input is vital in shaping our department's future direction.
You can:
- Members of the department were invited to join a working group. EOI now closed
- Respond to working group consultation (look out in the weekly newsletter)
- Contact relevant working group leads about specific themes
- Share your thoughts on our vision and mission. Complete the feedback form here.
- Join the discussion about our department's name and identity
- Ask questions about the wider review process by contacting Kathryn Ungerer, Nicola Small or Aziz Sheikh
For detailed operational documents and terms of reference, visit our SharePoint site by clicking here [link behind SSO].