Research

What is Towards the University of the Future?

Towards the University of the Future (TUoF) is a 3-year project that explores how to enable, scale, and sustain collaboration across difference. TUoF reimagines interdisciplinarity as collaboration across difference: work that spans academic and professional roles, disciplines, methods, communities, sectors, and external partners. It explores how to make conditions for collaboration visible, shareable, and sustainable across the University of Glasgow – and what it can teach us about the future of universities more widely. 

➔ About the Project

Who are we?

Towards the University of the Future is led by Dr Lisa Bradley (School of Education and ARC), with research collaborators from across the university.

➔ The Research Team

Governance

Towards the University of the Future is a collaboration between the Advanced Research Centre (ARC) and Glasgow Changing Futures (GCF), funded internally by the Collaborative Futures strand of Glasgow Changing Futures (2025-2028). 

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Latest Updates

Primary Investigator Lisa Bradley delivered a presentation on initial survey data about collaborating across difference at 'Leading for Collaboration at Universities', a Glasgow Changing Futures Learning Lab held last 27 August 2026 at the Clarice Pears Building.