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Kirsty Armer, Non-Executive Director

Kirsty Armer

Non-Executive Director

Kirsty Armer is a Non-Executive Director and chairs AWE’s Safety, Sustainability and Quality committee. Kirsty is a Chartered Director with extensive experience of developing and delivering strategic transformation in the civil nuclear industry. As a Fellow of the Nuclear Institute and of the Institute of Directors and Visiting Professor in Nuclear Fuel Engineering at the University of Manchester Dalton Nuclear Institute, Kirsty has held a wide portfolio of technical, operational and commercial executive leadership roles in the UK and internationally, most recently as Vice President of Westinghouse Environmental Services UK.

She is a Trustee of the Nuclear Institute; has served on the boards of Springfields Fuels Ltd and Westinghouse Electric Company UK Limited; and is a previous member of NIRAB. Kirsty holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Manchester, an MBA from Lancaster University and the IOD Diploma in Board Direction.

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AWE supports major expansion of nuclear doctoral training

AWE is supporting an expansion of UK nuclear doctoral training through a new suite of Doctoral Focal Awards (DFAs), strengthening the skills pipeline essential to delivering our mission, now and in the future, and sustaining national nuclear capability as part of the wider defence enterprise.

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Hear from AWE at DPRTE 2026

AWE is pleased to be returning to DPRTE, the UK’s leading defence procurement and supply chain event, at the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre. This year Dr Robert Lock and Dr Martin Gilmore will give delegates an overview of AWE’s new Technology Strategy.

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