3.2
Measuring our Impact
Through our science and technology work, we have been able to build our technical reputation, foster new talent, create technical solutions, leverage successful partnerships and add value across the nuclear sector.
But it’s not enough just to say we have done these things; we always want to quantify the impact we are having.
We have therefore developed four key metrics by which we will measure the impact of our activities moving forwards.
These are:
Quality
How many journals and books have we contributed to? How many peer reviews have we completed? How many news items have been published internally and externally about our Science and Technology Agenda?
Talent
How many Charterships and Fellowships do we have? How many apprentices, graduates and PhD researchers are we developing?
Value
How much value has been created by investment in science and technology? How many external researchers are accessing grant-funded equipment in NNL?
Partnerships
How many Virtual Collaboration Centres and Strategic Research programmes have been created? How many Tiger Teams do we have? How many innovation projects are we rolling out in collaboration with external organisations?
Our Impact So Far
Over the past five years, we have nearly
doubled
our number of quality journal publications
and with AFCP, we have
tripled
commercial gearing
Since 2015, researchers from
35
different organisations
have accessed our facilities, with
30+
different nationalities represented
4
of our Core Science areas have been independently peer reviewed as ‘world class’
35
new Charterships
and
5
new Fellowships
have been awarded in the past three years
taking us to
230+
Chartered Scientists and Fellows in total