Transcript Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gill Valentine

Social Responsibility
Prof. Gill Valentine, Pro-Vice Chancellor
Faculty of Social Sciences
28 November 2014
The Importance of Values
Our Mission and Vision
The Sheffield Academic
1.Achieving excellence
2.Cultivating ambition
3.Making a difference
4.Working together
5.Leading the way
6.Protecting the future
From Corporate/ Social Responsibility to Public Value
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EQUIS Check List for CSR
Socially responsible organisation:
• Has values of honesty, equity & integrity
• Concern for people/society & the environment
• Encourages ethical behaviour of staff & students
• Incorporates broader social/environmental
considerations in decision-making
• Is accountable for the impact of its decisions and actions
on society & the environment
• Addresses societal, environmental & economic
challenges and goals common to society as a whole
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What Do We Do?
Academic Mission
• Public engagement with research/impact
• Engaged university
• WP/Schools and outreach
• Engaged curriculum
• USE and SIDSHARE
• Volunteering
• Technical education/apprenticeships
• ‘We are international’ campaign
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What Do We Do?
Operations
• Integrity; transparency; accountability
• Commitment to equality & diversity
• Estates master-plan: greening the
campus; improving the public realm
• Carbon management
• Worker’s rights consortium?
• City of sanctuary?
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How Do You Think We Do?
TUoS:
• Has values of honesty, equity & integrity?
• Concern for people/society & the environment?
• Encourages ethical behaviour of staff & students?
• Incorporates broader social/environmental
considerations in decision-making?
• Is accountable for the impact of its decisions and actions
on society & the environment?
• Addresses societal, environmental & economic
challenges and goals common to society as a whole?
Question – what is the place of social responsibility in
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the University’s Strategy refresh?
1. It Should Not Be Core to the Strategy
Our mission = to discover &
understand; straightforward
We do good stuff ‘BUT’…
HE: competitive global business
1.League tables should be our priority
2.Risky: financially & politically
3.We would need to compromise
academic freedom (L&T, R, travel)
4.It is a long-term agenda we have
short-term ‘customer’ priorities
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5.Hostage to fortune: given internal
contradictions
2. ‘Let’s Do It’ OR ‘Yes We Can’
Develop further founding
public value tradition
‘BUT’ values need to be embedded –
to be more than the sum of the parts
1.We need to be a ‘thought leader’
2.To take more risks
3.To move further beyond the status
quo
4.We need to face up to our internal
contradictions
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5.Our public value – R & LT we have
opportunities to make a long term
difference to society