Objectives

• Enhance our research excellence and sustainably grow our research scale through balanced resourcing and concentration of activity.
• Ensure our research and teaching produce synergy, complementarity, and efficiency for the benefit of our researchers, teachers and students.
• Contribute greater societal benefit by deepening the culture of innovation, and enhancing our impact, knowledge exchange, and community engagement.
• Make research support “researcher-centric” and continue to enhance our research infrastructure with a focus on data.

Mission

Our mission is to nurture and grow our talented and dedicated pool of researchers whose practice is founded on a values-based culture of excellence.

We need academics who can conduct research at the leading edge, who are forward-thinking, who provide an exceptional experience for our research students and partners, and who value and generate innovation outcomes. They are the agents for the ‘Surrey Advantage’, culminating in the premium that each and every student or partner gains by choosing us as the place to complete postgraduate research or to collaborate.

Ambition

• A global leader in higher education research and innovation and a destination of choice for researchers, including postgraduate research students, in the UK and internationally.
• A leading research institution with talented staff and students committed to research and innovation excellence and to benefitting the economy, society and the environment.
• A preferred partner for government, business, industry and other universities in creating knowledge, technological solutions, digital transformation and policy innovation.
• An engaged and connected university which is the intellectual home for alumni, supporters, and the local community.