Our UC community was engaged as part of an inclusive and exhaustive co-design process to support the development of the DMP throughout 2023. In adopting a genuine co-design approach, we aimed to make the DMP relevant, sustainable and adaptive. 

Here, our community includes students, staff, adjuncts, alumni, partners, tenants and key external stakeholder groups like ACT Government, UC schools and industry. Anyone who connects or interacts with the University we consider to be a part of our community.

The project was split into three key phases:

• Phase 1 - Extensive and inclusive co-design to craft our guiding principles, objectives and key results.
• Phase 2 - Identification and co-creation of initiatives and activities that are required on the 10-year timeline to deliver our objectives and key results.
• Phase 3 - Development, review and refinement of version 1.0 of the DMP, as well as benefits and strategic investment approach.

In Phase 1, we worked with our UC community to co-design a set of principles that will underpin the development of a DMP. These principles were then used to guide the creation of objectives and key results (OKRs), to define what a program of work (through the DMP) will achieve in the short, medium and long-term, and the expected outcomes. Read our full Phase 1 report here. It is an important document which underpins the creation of our DMP.