Mission and Values
We offer a transformative experience, generating knowledge and stimulating self-discovery through creative, radical and intellectually rigorous thinking and practice.
Our Mission is underpinned by the following values:
Achieving academic excellence:
- pursuing intellectual curiosity
- encouraging the highest standards of research and practice.
Embracing complexity:
- building on our diverse strengths – academic excellence and rigour inspired by radical thinking
- providing a unique and creative approach to all of our subjects.
Respecting the individual:
- encouraging individuality and nurturing talent
- enabling freedom of thought and expression.
Embracing diversity:
- having the courage to think differently
- providing the freedom to experiment
- working beyond the boundaries of preconceptions.
Radical thinking:
- being the leader in all our fields
- daring to think differently and to challenge the norms.
Creating change, locally and globally:
- being socially aware and socially active
- enhancing employability in rewarding careers
- actively promoting sustainability
- fostering a social and intellectual community within, and beyond, Goldsmiths.
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