The Alan Turing Institute reviews

Senior Leadership = the one thing truly ruining this organisation. There are many Directors in place, more-so on the operational side rather than research side, that either A) Cannot do their job B) Don't care about their job and are there for the money or C) Both. Last year's transformation/round of redundancies truly exemplified the inconsistencies in messaging and the lack of clarity about what the organisation is and does continually makes you feel like you're working in an unknown. We were told to "keep waiting" for things to get better, but it was made so clear in the process that no-one knew what they were doing. Senior Leaders lack basic human empathy at this stage, and now hide behind a mysterious "ELT" blob to us underlings so that no-one can point the finger. Slow to make decisions or, once is a decision is made, it's weak, misguided and not based in the reality of what teams can and should deliver. It's offputting to our important stakeholders and incoming talent, and tarnishing our reputation at an exponential rate.

The mismanagement and terrible leadership within all levels of the Defence and Security programme are shocking. It's complete chaos with no structure, no vision and no community.