It is my pleasure to welcome you to This is City 2022, the annual magazine for students, staff, alumni and friends of City.
I started as President of City, University of London just over a year ago and in that time, I have overseen several changes including a move to better align our courses and Schools with the demands of industry as well as launching our new Vision and Strategy 2022-30, which has a stronger focus on practice and places students where they should be, right at the heart. You can read more about our new strategy in Features along with our recent climb in university rankings and how more of our research has been rated as world-leading or internationally excellent in the latest Research Excellence Framework.
The theme for this year’s magazine is ‘progress’ and our staff continue to make a difference to the lives of our students. Thanks to the diligent work of our Careers & Employability Office and the Department of Sociology and Criminology, City has been shortlisted for ‘University of the Year’ in the UK Social Mobility Awards 2022. Meanwhile colleagues across City have pooled together to work on applications for the Race Equality Charter, Athena Swan Charter and Stonewall Workplace Equality Index – all of which help to make City the inclusive place that it is, while still striving to reach full equity.
Our alumni – 150,000+ individuals across 170 countries – continue to bring about positive changes wherever they are. Caroline Faraj for example was the first female journalism graduate from Yarmouk University in Jordan and since completing her master’s at City, she has gone on to become the Vice President and Head of Arabic Services at the CNN, the Middle East’s leading independent news platform. And Elisa L. Iannacone and Farah Al-Nabulsi, two alumnae who are using their creativity to help bring much needed attention to injustices happening around the world.
We are proud of the progress we have made as a university from our early days as the Northampton Institute to the vibrant and forward-looking university we are today, focused on supporting our students, staff and alumni to succeed. And we look forward still to the further progress that our new strategy will bring.
This is City – I hope you enjoy reading.
Professor Anthony Finkelstein
20,000
students in six Schools
46%
of whom are postgraduates
50%+
are from the UK, around 11 per cent are from the EU with the remainder from over 164 countries around the globe
150,000+
former students in over 170 countries are members of the City Alumni Network