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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

Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ 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.