PDP conducted a series of outreach activities with the postdoc community to learn more about data needs. These explorations informed development of a postdoc questionnaire to supplement existing SRS surveys.
The questionnaire was designed to fill content gaps in postdoc data by collecting information about:
Characteristics of a postdoc?
- Demographics
- Field of study
- Employment sector (academic and non-academic)
- Degree source (US-degreed and foreign-degreed)
- Comparisons with non-postdocs
Number of postdocs in the US
- Employment sector (academic and non-academic)
- Degree type (PhD or PhD-equivalent)
- Degree source (US-degreed and foreign-degreed)
- Race and sex
Current training opportunities
- Research
- Teaching
- Management and administration
- Career development
- Comparisons by:
- Degree type (PhD or PhD-equivalent)
- Degree source (US-degreed and foreign-degreed)
- Employment sector (academic and non-academic)
- Early career researcher (postdocs and non-postdocs)
Reasons for taking a postdoc
- Career goals
- Determinants of a successful postdoc
- Comparisons by:
- Degree type (PhD or PhD-equivalent)
- Degree source (US-degreed and foreign-degreed)
- Employment sector (academic and non-academic)
- Early career researcher (postdocs and non-postdocs)
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