EAW4 - Skills Survey

Project overview

A key action of the UK 25-year Flood Hydrology Roadmap is to raise the skills, value, and esteem of flood hydrology and hydrologists. However, there was little data that could be used to understand the present situation, to target actions, and benchmark progress.

The UK Hydrology Skills and Satisfaction Survey collected this data from 286 users of hydrology from across the whole of the UK in February 2023. It provided valuable information on:

  • Who the users of hydrology are
  • Their skills and the skills they wish to have
  • How satisfied they are with hydrology and their careers
  • The ways they get involved with the wider hydrological community

Infographic - We received 286 responses to the survey.Infographic - 79% of hydrology users are satisfied with their roles and job security. 78% were satisfied with their job overall.Infographic - Respondents rated their knowledge of general hydrology the highest.


Our project has:

  • Produced a Results Report that summarises the project and outcomes with reflections from hydrologists across the UK. It also provides a comprehensive presentation of the results, with breakdowns by sector, age, and gender.
  • A Technical Report that details the formulation of the survey, a discussion of the results in the context of research objectives, implications for the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap, and 12 recommendations for the hydrological community.

Both of these reports can be accessed via the sidebar of this webpage along with the infographics and charts produced.


How our project has improved flood hydrology

  • By providing a deeper understanding of the users of hydrology – their numbers, backgrounds, skills, and satisfaction – the hydrological community can better target future actions to increase their skills, values, and esteem.


How our project contributed to the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap

The UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap will be realised through 31 actions grouped into 4 thematic work areas of ways of working, data, methods and scientific understanding. Eight actions have been identified to improve methods in UK flood hydrology related to improving flood hydrology methods, models and systems.

This project contributed to the methods strand actions:

  • W5 - Build hydrological skills, esteem and value - requires a benchmarking of the current level of skills and satisfaction from across the users of hydrology in the UK. The Action suggested a survey be used to collect this data and this project is directly delivering this on behalf of the hydrological community. The results will be used by the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap Board, and others, to develop further projects to deliver all of Action W5.


Who we are working with


Project overview

A key action of the UK 25-year Flood Hydrology Roadmap is to raise the skills, value, and esteem of flood hydrology and hydrologists. However, there was little data that could be used to understand the present situation, to target actions, and benchmark progress.

The UK Hydrology Skills and Satisfaction Survey collected this data from 286 users of hydrology from across the whole of the UK in February 2023. It provided valuable information on:

  • Who the users of hydrology are
  • Their skills and the skills they wish to have
  • How satisfied they are with hydrology and their careers
  • The ways they get involved with the wider hydrological community

Infographic - We received 286 responses to the survey.Infographic - 79% of hydrology users are satisfied with their roles and job security. 78% were satisfied with their job overall.Infographic - Respondents rated their knowledge of general hydrology the highest.


Our project has:

  • Produced a Results Report that summarises the project and outcomes with reflections from hydrologists across the UK. It also provides a comprehensive presentation of the results, with breakdowns by sector, age, and gender.
  • A Technical Report that details the formulation of the survey, a discussion of the results in the context of research objectives, implications for the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap, and 12 recommendations for the hydrological community.

Both of these reports can be accessed via the sidebar of this webpage along with the infographics and charts produced.


How our project has improved flood hydrology

  • By providing a deeper understanding of the users of hydrology – their numbers, backgrounds, skills, and satisfaction – the hydrological community can better target future actions to increase their skills, values, and esteem.


How our project contributed to the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap

The UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap will be realised through 31 actions grouped into 4 thematic work areas of ways of working, data, methods and scientific understanding. Eight actions have been identified to improve methods in UK flood hydrology related to improving flood hydrology methods, models and systems.

This project contributed to the methods strand actions:

  • W5 - Build hydrological skills, esteem and value - requires a benchmarking of the current level of skills and satisfaction from across the users of hydrology in the UK. The Action suggested a survey be used to collect this data and this project is directly delivering this on behalf of the hydrological community. The results will be used by the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap Board, and others, to develop further projects to deliver all of Action W5.


Who we are working with


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