Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
LIS is hard to explain succinctly. And we mean *really* hard. Because there’s a lot going on.
We’re a ‘higher-education-provider’-which-isn’t-the-coolest-word-but-for-now-we-have-to-use-it-who-built-brand-new-undergraduate-and-postgraduate-degrees-for-students-who-want-to-tackle-real-world-problems-because-these-problems-are-incredibly-important-and-deeply-interdisciplinary-which-is-a-word-we’re-trying-to-shorten-to-“ID”-but-it-hasn’t-quite-caught-on-yet-and-we’re-also-developng-this-big-group-of-organisations-called-the-LIS-Network-who-work-with-our-faculty-and-students-on-problems-they’re-facing-because-lots-of-clever-things-happen-inside-universities-and-we-think-they-should-happen-outside-too-oh-and-did-we-mention-we’re-looking-at-launching-short-certficiates-so-more-people-can-study-with-us-and-and-and-and-and….
See what we mean?
So we set ourselves the challenge of explaining LIS in 60 seconds.
How do you think we did?
LIS is hard to explain succinctly. And we mean *really* hard. Because there’s a lot going on.
We’re a ‘higher-education-provider’-which-isn’t-the-coolest-word-but-for-now-we-have-to-use-it-who-built-brand-new-undergraduate-and-postgraduate-degrees-for-students-who-want-to-tackle-real-world-problems-because-these-problems-are-incredibly-important-and-deeply-interdisciplinary-which-is-a-word-we’re-trying-to-shorten-to-“ID”-but-it-hasn’t-quite-caught-on-yet-and-we’re-also-developng-this-big-group-of-organisations-called-the-LIS-Network-who-work-with-our-faculty-and-students-on-problems-they’re-facing-because-lots-of-clever-things-happen-inside-universities-and-we-think-they-should-happen-outside-too-oh-and-did-we-mention-we’re-looking-at-launching-short-certficiates-so-more-people-can-study-with-us-and-and-and-and-and….
See what we mean?
So we set ourselves the challenge of explaining LIS in 60 seconds.
How do you think we did?
