NERC's people strategy
"Success in delivering world-class NERC-funded environmental sciences lies with the skills, knowledge and dedication of all the people within the NERC community."
(Next Generation Science for Planet Earth, 'People')
The NERC strategy cannot be delivered unless people have the right skills. To deliver the strategy effectively and to make the best use of the funding requires people align their skills with our objectives to recognise and embrace their role as part of the overall UK environmental sciences community. We need people with expertise and commitment, from leaders to support staff, all motivated to reaching our objectives successfully. This is the case whether we employ them or support them, whether they are found in our Research Centres or in universities.
Building active research communities that extend beyond organisational and disciplinary boundaries is therefore an integral part of our People Action Plan.
We also recognise our responsibility to future generations. We will put effort into ensuring that the skilled people exist to deliver future strategies and to respond to rapidly changing priorities in our sciences. The activities in the People Action Plan reflect a "cradle to grave" approach to providing skilled people for the UK. At the same time as we actively seek to identify the skills we currently have in our community and to make better use of them, we will also be looking to the future and trying to ensure we anticipate any changes that lie ahead.
Our constituency stretches beyond the people we directly employ. It embraces research scientists and engineers, technicians, and the wide variety of professionals who undertake the support activities that ensure NERC delivers its strategy and meets its obligations to its stakeholders. The People Action Plan touches upon them all.
People Action Plan background (64KB)
An overview leaflet of the People Action Plan can also be downloaded or ordered.