Innovation will be the key to releasing the value of the university’s creative ideas, actions, and collaborations to make a positive impact on the world. Innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial energy have always been pivotal in helping Warwick to stand out from the crowd.

If they are to achieve their ambitions for research and education in a fast-changing world, innovation must be a given, not an option. It will enable them to deliver more purposeful research and to give students and staff new ways of thinking and the ambition to try out new ideas and methods within the University and beyond.

The University aspire to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that have prevented talented people from working and studying at Warwick and be recognised as best in class in their approach to diversity and social inclusion, for staff and students.

There is much already to celebrate in their progress on social inclusion and widening participation, but they need to do much more.

They seek to create a community for staff and students, where differences of culture and identity are celebrated, where differences of opinion are welcomed and respected, and where prejudice and socially unacceptable behaviours of any kind are never tolerated.

At the heart of their approach will be a major drive to increase the diversity of their student and staff population and to remove the barriers to a Warwick education, particularly, but not only, for those from lower socio-economic groups, ethnic minority communities and disabled students. They will build on some of their already inspirational partnerships with schools and colleges to raise the aspirations and attainment of children before they consider a university education.

They will create new pathways for students to access their programmes and courses. Recognising that the best are not always identifiable from standard tests and measures, and so we will seek new means of finding talent.

Warwick will play an even greater leadership role in the economic, social and cultural growth of their region, making it a better place for those who study, live and work here and more sustainable for future generations.

Leadership and support for the region is the foundation for any contemporary world-leading university. Coventry and Warwickshire remain at the heart of their identity, but they want to bring their leadership, partnerships and activities in education and research to the wider region, including Solihull and Birmingham.

Warwick will be widely regarded as one of the world's leading international universities, especially in its composition of staff and student bodies, its transnational research and in the intercultural experiences available to all their staff and students.

The international theme has always run through their veins, as demonstrated by their increasing intercultural experience and opportunity on campus and the huge range of their international collaborations and partnerships with the business community and other sectors. We continue to encourage their staff and students to thrive within an actively inclusive international community and continue to look outwards to Europe and the wider world. Intercultural opportunity, awareness and respect will always be core Warwick values.

Their research will be built more than ever on attracting talented academics and researchers from every corner of the world and on the widest range of international collaborations. This will continue to be the basis of their research excellence, and their ability to anticipate and tackle truly international challenges.

They aspire to attract the best and most talented international students, to safeguard and encourage international diversity, and so to promote staff, student and department-led international collaborations which support their education and research ambitions.