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Future-Ready Research and Innovation
Valuing discovery-led excellence while aligning challenge-focused research to evolving national priorities and global challenges.
Our Values
1. Courageous Inquiry
We champion intellectual freedom, curiosity-driven research, and the pursuit of high-risk, high-reward ideas. We protect academic independence and create space for critical reflection, experimentation, and challenging established paradigms.
2. Research with Integrity
We commit to the highest standards of research ethics, research governance, scientific rigour and transparency. This includes safeguarding academic freedom, protecting research from undue influence, and upholding our commitments to responsible assessment and evaluation. Guided by our Partnership Principles, collaborative research at Exeter is founded on shared integrity, mutual accountability, and long-term trust.
3. Collaboration without Boundaries
We believe in the power of working together across disciplines, sectors, and borders, to address complex challenges. We value and respect disciplinary distinctiveness and the productive tension created by diverse epistemologies. By breaking down silos and fostering intellectual synergy, we create new knowledge that could not emerge from any single field.
4. Responsible Stewardship
We are stewards of our financial, environmental, and social resources. Our pursuit of sustainability and efficiency enables, rather than dictates, our research mission, ensuring long-term viability and responsible impact.
5. Inclusive Empowerment
We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion in all we do. We value equally the contribution of all individuals across our community, from all disciplines, and job families. We actively embed the tenets of Athena Swan and the Race Equality Charter into our culture, ensuring every voice is valued, supported, and can thrive. This commitment is honoured through our external collaborations, in line with our Partnership Principles.
6. Socially Just Future
We harness the power of our research to create a sustainable, healthy, and socially just future. We engage critically with society, address power and inequity, and ensure our scholarship contributes meaningfully to the communities we serve and the world we share, and we honour our commitment as signatories to the NCCPE’s Manifesto for Public Engagement and The Concordat for Engaging the Public with Research.
7. Transformative Innovation
We foster a culture where creativity and discovery are translated into tangible benefits: whether through policy, technology, art, or community action. We support the entire journey from idea to impact, recognising foundational research as essential to lasting impact.
Strategic Priorities
Our strategy is rooted in a strong commitment to research quality alongside a clear focus on financial sustainability, ensuring a thriving future for our research and the wider university community.
Financial Sustainability
We will establish a financially balanced model for sustainable growth in our research activity and strengthen our research performance alongside other core activities. This will be achieved through informed decision-making, guided by a deep understanding of key financial drivers and supported by high-quality financial information, planning, and modelling.
