Strategic Plan: Monitoring progress, measuring success

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We will monitor performance and progress with this Strategic Plan through our existing Performance Management System. We will use our 3-yearly Delivery Plan to set out detailed objectives and spending plans. Progress will be reported in the Delivery report, Economic impact reporting framework and our Annual report.

Delivery

To ensure delivery of our Strategic Plan we will:

Keep funding mechanisms under review to provide the flexibility to respond quickly to scientific developments and ensure appropriate balance between responsive mode, directed funding, longer-larger programmes, shorter project awards and the different types of knowledge exchange and training awards
Ensure our decision-making structures ( Boards, Strategy Panels and Research Committees) and peer review mechanisms are fit to support modern bioscience and responsive to users’ needs
Implement and maintain a comprehensive skills strategy, including recognising and addressing niche skill needs
Through partnerships (including international) and strategic investment, ensure that UK researchers have access to the modern facilities and infrastructure necessary to stay internationally competitive at the cutting edge of bioscience
Work with the RCUK Shared Services Centre to provide the administrative structures, HR policies, resources and IT support required to facilitate effective and efficient delivery of BBSRC’s objectives

Measuring success

Successful implementation of this Strategic Plan will be measured primarily by monitoring progress against the key priorities that it identifies. However, BBSRC must also be able to demonstrate, at a more strategic level, that delivery has benefited society.

This Strategic Plan will have been successful if, by 2015:

BBSRC’s research portfolio has been developed such that a significant proportion of the programme is devoted to the science underpinning or directly addressing our three key strategic research priorities
The UK bioscience research community has appropriate critical mass and access to major facilities, data sets and supporting laboratory infrastructure
All BBSRC Institutes are in a position of financial sustainability, are strategically aligned with BBSRC’s vision for biosciences, and can demonstrate the impact of their research
The UK bioscience research base supported by BBSRC continues to be world-leading in the production of high quality published outputs
BBSRC can point to recent examples demonstrating the effective transfer of knowledge from its research to a wide range of users that will benefit society either directly or indirectly, including via the economic competitiveness of UK industry
Areas of skills shortages in bioscience, which have been identified as strategically important for the UK, have been addressed in partnership with the user organisations needing those skills
The public is constructively engaged in BBSRC’s business, as demonstrated in part by the mechanisms in place for taking public views into account

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Contact

Corporate Policy and Strategy
bbsrc.cps@bbsrc.ac.uk