We will be one Trinity community.Goal 8

The university community in Trinity is driven by shared convictions and ambitions, a strong sense of belonging and an ethos of collegiality. It functions as a complex web of relationships, not only embracing academic staff, professional staff and students, but also reaching outwards to our global network of 140,000 alumni worldwide, our partners in industry, in other universities around Ireland and the world, and our generous benefactors. Community in this sense also means recognising that the campus embraces not only the main city-centre campus, but includes colleagues working in St. James’s Hospital, and in Tallaght University Hospital, as well as in offices and associated programmes stretching from Belfast to Columbia University to Singapore Institute of Technology. As with any complex set of relationships, there is the daily challenge of keeping everyone informed and involved. More fundamentally, there is the need to renew constantly the recognition that all members of the community together contribute towards achieving the work of the university. We can do this by finding new ways to make our means of working fairer for all. This includes a fundamental commitment to promote equality and inclusivity in all that we do. We will be more transparent, more agile, and more effective, and we will make our decision-making processes simpler. However, and perhaps most importantly, it means affirming that we put people – students, academic staff, professional staff, alumni, friends – at the core of what we do in a community founded on mutual respect and sharing a common purpose.