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    Find out more about Ayr Campus UWS’s Ayr Campus provides state-of-the-art Facilities | University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus

    Located just a 10-minute walk from Ayr town centre on the Craigie Estate next to the River Ayr, UWS's £81 million Ayr Campus creates a truly innovative learning environment for students.

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    Our London Campus offers modern and dynamic, flexible work and learning spaces with panoramic views of London Docklands.

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    UWS's award-winning £110m campus in Lanarkshire opened in September 2018 and is located on the outskirts of Hamilton, in Hamilton International Technology Park.

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    UWS Dumfries Campus - located in a unique multi-institution environment within the beautiful Crichton estate just two miles from the centre of Dumfries.

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    Located in the centre of Paisley – Scotland's largest town – the campus is just 10 minutes by train from Glasgow.

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UWS is officially ranked in the top 150 of universities worldwide under 50 years old (Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2022) and was also crowned Higher Educational Institution of the Year 2022 (The Herald Higher Education Awards). UWS is a modern, exciting, and rewarding place to work!

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University of the West of Scotland

University of the West of Scotland is a large, modern, multi-campus University with its origins dating back to 1897. We have four campuses across the west and southwest of Scotland and one in London.

At UWS we value our people and recognise that our staff are our most valuable resource. UWS is a great place to work – we are a university that genuinely cares for our employees.

UWS TRUTHS

  • We are here for our students
  • We are a global university
  • We are a knowledge-rich organisation
  • UWS graduates are world-ready
  • We value our people and UWS is a great place to work

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Benefits of working at UWS

All our employees are at the heart of our business and having the right people in place and retaining them is key to our success as a University.

Rewarding our employees is therefore an important component of our employment package and the University has a wide range of excellent benefits on offer to staff. These can enhance your personal and professional development, your health and wellbeing, your finances, and also help support the University’s policies on issues such as sustainable travel.

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OUR CAMPUSES

Our Scottish campuses are located within historic towns that allow easy commuting to Scotland's largest city, Glasgow or Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh. Our London Campus, which offers modern and dynamic, flexible work spaces, is located in the historic London Docklands, a 1-minute walk from East India DLR station.

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GREAT PLACE TO LIVE

Whether you work at one of our Scottish campuses on our new London Campus, our campuses are located in, and close to, some of the best areas to live in the UK.

Living in Scotland

Loch LomondThe west of Scotland is an area defined by contrast. Rich in tradition yet culturally diverse; home to historic towns and modern cities with excellent transport links across Scotland, iconic historic sites and surrounded by beautiful countryside, there really is something for everyone.

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London, the capital city of the United Kingdom, is an incredibly cosmopolitan and dynamic city. With a population of 8.63 million, the city is diverse in nature, with over 230 languages spoken and a wealth of different cultures and communities. The UWS London Campus offers attractive, modern facilities in close proximity to major attractions in central London.

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OUR SCHOOLS

UWS is officially ranked by Times Higher Education in the top 600 of universities worldwide (2022 World University Rankings) and in the top 150 of universities worldwide under 50 years old (2022 Young University Rankings). Helping us achieve this recognition, UWS is organised into four academic schools for learning, teaching and research.

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Professional Support Services

Our professional services teams are the backbone of UWS, providing robust and innovative solutions to support the vast range of work across learning and teaching, and research and innovation.

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A global outlook

UWS has a global outlook and enjoys successful partnerships with educational institutions and businesses around the world. We are mindful of the current global climate, as a result of COVID-19, and this is forming part of our strategic planning to ensure that UWS is able to continue to operate successfully in the global landscape.

  • 15 Transnational Education partners including India, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka
  • Over 100 European partners (including universities in Ireland, Germany, France, Finland, Spain and Italy)
  • 11 North American partners
  • 20 partners in China
  • Scotland’s first official training partner for China following accreditation from China’s State Administration for Foreign Expert Affairs (SAFEA)

UWS Strategy 2025

University of the West of Scotland is driving an ambitious strategy for high-quality learning and teaching, and research and innovation, with a global engagement agenda to reflect the needs of the 21st century workplace.

UWS Strategy 2025, launched in February 2020, marks an exciting new chapter for the University. It focuses on the key areas in which the University seeks to flourish over the next five years, giving a picture of what UWS will look like by 2025 and lays the foundation for the University towards 2050.

Strategy 2025 was developed in consultation with colleagues across the University who shared their perspective on UWS’s strengths, the challenges we may face in the future and what we want to achieve by 2025.

The new Strategy builds on the successes and achievements made during the last Corporate Strategy period, 2014-2019. During this timeframe, UWS transformed itself within the sector, and made a significant impact on the lives of its students and local communities, as well as growing in international stature.

UWS STRATEGY 2025

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

UWS is committed to ensuring that equality is at the heart of everything that it does in order to raise aspirations, increase opportunities and inspire achievement.

At UWS we advance and promote equality and diversity in all of our activities and aim to establish an inclusive culture, free from discrimination and based upon the values of fairness, dignity and respect. We are committed to enhancing wellbeing and have the structures, leadership and support in place to embed equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do.

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