10 Year Strategic Plan
Mission
St Edmund Hall promotes the advancement of university education, learning and research as a college in the University of Oxford (including maintaining its historic buildings and other patrimony, and pastoral care of its students).
Strategic Vision
Our Strategic Plan, published in 2019, covers the Hall’s vision for the next 10 years, up until 2029. It aims to move this inspiring and historic institution into the next century, keeping it as relevant to students of the future, as it has been in the past, and is today.
There are five strategic areas of priority:
- Education and Research: A college where excellent teaching and research co-exist in a stimulating intellectual environment.
- Access, Equality and Diversity: A college where inclusivity, equality, and diversity are understood, recognised, and celebrated across the community and where there are no invisible barriers to entry or to students reaching their full potential.
- Culture: A college culture that is creative and inclusive, linking a plurality of cultural activities within a positive working environment.
- Estates: To become the greenest and most environmentally sustainable college in Oxford, with a stock of high-quality student accommodation and an estate that fully meets the needs of the college community.
- Finance: A college that is financially robust and with operating budget focused primarily on the core objective of the College.
Midpoint Strategic Review
Across the 2023–24 academic year, members of the College, including students, staff and Fellows, came together in working groups to discuss and measure the progress made since 2019, and to establish goals for the next five years.
We are delighted to report that significant progress has been made so far, across all fives areas of priority. Most notably, construction of our Norham St Edmund development commenced in early autumn 2023. This transformational project, which is scheduled to conclude in summer 2026, will create 127 bedrooms and communal facilities in North Oxford, enabling all undergraduates who wish to live in for the entirety of their course to do so in high-quality and sustainably designed accommodation.
Our publication Flourishing Steps summarises the progress made in these five core areas and sets out the goals we have collectively committed to for our next review in 2029.
What will success look like in ten years?
Read our updated vision summarising our goals for 2029.
Get involved
Alumni, students, staff and friends of the College who wish to be involved in the strategic review and its implementation are warmly encouraged to get in touch.