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Year 2 Strategic Achievement

Progress continues to be made under the DCU Strategy 2023 - 2028.

The Year 2 update of the strategy shows substantial progress made in each of the plan’s five pillars: Transformative Student Experience, Valuing Staff, Research Impact, Engagement and Organisational Resilience. 

Student Experience

You can view all the Year 2 KPIs under the Student Experience pillar here. 

Progress for Year 2 includes: 

  • Year 4 of DCU Futures delivered
  • New Transversal Skills (MySkills) platform embedded into 15 programmes
  • Guidance on the use of AI in major reports/student research adopted in all faculties
  • Plan in place for the first DCU offering to be delivered on Drogheda Institute of Further Education (DIFE) campus
  • Careers service audit complete for 246 programmes
  • National Access targets achieved
  • Complete SIS implementation

Staff

You can view all the Year 2 KPIs under the Staff pillar here.

Progress for Year 2 includes:

  • Staff Engagement Survey conducted and OUR DCU Action Plan updated accordingly
  • Rollout of Living the Values Programme across all faculties and units
  • EDI Monitoring and reporting framework established
  • Audit of current Leadership Development programmes demonstrates alignment with the SWP requirements
  • HR systems and processes more streamlined and effective
  • 75% of staff report new People website as enhancing:
    • Enhancing communications
    • Improving accessibility
    • Streamlining user interactions 

Research

You can view all the Year 2 KPIs under the Research pillar here. 

Progress for Year 2 includes:

  • Publishing targets achieved
  • All faculties are in implementation phases of local strategies to reach these goals
  • Research Impact Website fully operational with at least 20 case studies
  • Postgraduate Research numbers are now 22% above strategy baseline
  • New research guidance international joint and double-award doctorates will be approved and in place

Engagement

You can view all the Year 2 KPIs under the Engagement pillar here. 

Progress for Year 2 includes:

  • New civic engagement partnership - via the Public Participation Network (PPN) - is in place
  • Funding for seven artists in residence
  • Three new strategic industry partnerships signed
  • DCU Innovate (merger of DCU Invent and DCU Alpha) complete
  • Alumni mentorship grown by 5%
  • Alumni database has grown

Organisational Resilience

You can view all the Year 2 KPIs under the Organisational Resilience pillar here.

Progress for Year 2 includes: 

  • Comprehensive staff have completed AI Competence training
  • Annual cybersecurity exercise conducted
  • Redesigned data dashboards built
  • ESG/Sustainable Development Framework developed
  • Campus Development Plan in place
  • Annual Scenario Planning completed