Viewpoint – Making the Leap: A powerhouse of innovation
12 Nov 2025
Professor John Holden, Vice-President for Civic Engagement and Innovation and Carol Prokopyszyn , Chief Financial Officer, explore the path to becoming an innovation powerhouse
Between October and December, we are running a series of Viewpoint blogs written by our University Executive to give their personal perspectives on our new strategy to 2035, play back what we heard, explain the choices we are making, and set out how we will test, learn and scale to deliver our strategy.
In this piece, Professor John Holden, Vice-President for Civic Engagement and Innovation and Carol Prokopyszyn , Chief Financial Officer, explore how innovation can become a natural part of everyday life at Manchester.
More information
- You can explore the strategy on our webpage, or download the full strategy text.
- Catch up on our previous blogs - Professor Duncan Ivison - North Star and Foundations, Flexible, Personalised and Digitally Enabled Learning and Accelerating path from research excellence to impact