The Society of Radiographers’ annual Member Engagement and Training (MET) Report for 2025 shows another year of growth, and record levels of member activity and engagement.
Published on the eve of the Annual Delegates Conference, the report highlights membership growth and data regarding accredited Representatives, Special Interest Groups, Advisory Groups and other SoR Network numbers and activity. It also covers events supported by the SoR across 2025.
One key figure was the continuing growth in Working Paying Members, of around 2.2 per cent across 2025. This includes having recruited a significant majority of apprentices and increased learner membership.
Recruitment and activity
Some highlights include:
- 822 individual accredited representatives covering 1,112 positions.
- Reps continuing to reflect the broad age, gender and ethnicity profile of radiographers as a whole, reflecting the young, mostly female but otherwise increasingly diverse workforce.
- 70 per cent of all reps identify as female, including a UK high of 75 per cent of health and safety reps.
- 1 in 5 Reps are under 30, with a majority under 40.
- 71 per cent of new representatives are under 40, with more than one in three under 30 (37 per cent).
- 26 per cent of all reps declaring their ethnicity do so as other than White British, White European, or Other White.
- Details of how thousands of members have participated in SoR and CoR events, ranging from face-to-face or online conferences, training events, briefings, webinars and more.
- Details of Study days across regions and devolved nations, including the innovative Learners Study Day organised by the London Region.
The SoR has a ratio of one accredited representative role filled for every 28 members. 154 Reps participated in the SoR Rep training programme in 2025, mostly on the New Representative programmes.
The report also details activity to support increased member recruitment across 2026 – including changes to fees to make sure the SoR is affordable and competitive; improvements to recruitment and retention processes; and increased support for representatives and members, including to encourage member recruitment at all levels of the SoR.
'Huge level of engagement'
Dean Rogers, SoR executive director and author of the report, said: “The SoR is rightly proud of the huge level of engagement we have with our members across our Networks. This report highlights how extraordinary this remains. This is despite, or possibly because of, the enormous pressures on members' time and energy – thousands of members engaging with their professional association and union for help, support, and encouragement. The MET report shows members continuing to turn to their Society at times of huge pressure.
“We are always striving to make the most of this engagement – maximising the positive impact for members and also to make sure we harness this energy, information and knowledge for maximum effect in shaping our ever-improving support and offer to members – from learners through the support workforce, international recruits joining the workforce from overseas, through to advanced practitioners, and senior radiography leaders. All are involved in helping to continue growing the SoR in size and impact.
By measuring these trends and then diving deeper into the data to inform development conversations across our networks, we think we can continue to grow in size and influence. Just as radiography’s importance to health care is increasingly self-evident and recognised across health and social care, so the Society and College continues to increase our influence and impact for members.”
Dean explained that the SoR is doing particularly well in comparison with some other organisations, including unions, in relation to a diverse and representative rep base.
“This isn’t by accident,” he added. “As well as a lot of positive hard work, our structures are designed and built around being inclusive. We are continuing to invest time and resources into protecting and further developing our inclusive systems – aiming to identify and remove any barriers to more people getting involved in their Society as and where and when they can.”
The full report and summary can be found online here.
(Image: Dean Rogers, by Eva Slusarek)