A total of 67 participants submitted full responses to the survey provided in Appendix XX. This consisted of 19 individuals working purely in an academic environment, 7 individuals working in either a commercial or public sector environment, 29 individuals working in a purely industrial environment, and 12 participants working in a mixed capacity (i.e. an occupation that spans either a combination of the above categories, or that includes charities, self-employed, and unemployed participants). The mean Likert scale value obtained when considering the full group of participants is shown against each individual validation theme in the ‘Overall’ column in Fig. \ref{222026}. This provides a baseline ranking of the validation themes identified from the literature analysis. By subsequently comparing these baseline scores to the mean Likert scale values calculated for each validation theme based on specific occupational subsets (as shown in the ‘Academic’, ‘C & PS’, ‘Industrial’, and ‘Mixed’ columns) it is possible to examine the effect of varying occupational cultures on an individual’s validation priorities. The results of this analysis are summarised via the comparison of the highest ranking validation themes identified for each occupational subset as presented in Table \ref{table:validation_themes_vs_occupation}.