Glasgow Changing Futures

The University of the Future

What kind of university do we need for the world ahead? 

Traditional academic structures remain discipline-focused, while global challenges demand new ways of thinking, collaborating, and producing knowledge. 

Towards the University of the Future reimagines interdisciplinarity as collaboration across difference, spanning academic/professional roles, methods, communities, and external partners. 

No single discipline can solve complex global challenges – and the solutions need to be creative and innovative. Bringing diverse perspectives together is a pathway to better solutions, and an opportunity to connect academic work with public, policy and industry context. 

Different ways of ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’ can create richer and more imaginative futures. It can also build more resilient and future-proof institutions while enhancing learning from each other and enabling researchers and professional staff to work confidently across boundaries.