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THE SURVEY 2023/2024 IS CLOSED: Thank You for Your Participation!

We are excited to announce that the Survey 2023/2024 has officially closed, and we are now diving into the data analysis phase. This step is crucial for understanding the valuable insights and feedback provided by all of you. We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who took the time to participate.

What’s Next?

The WG Survey is currently working meticulously to analyze the data collected. This process will involve:

  • Data Cleaning: Ensuring the accuracy and consistency of the responses.
  • Analysis: Identifying key trends, patterns, and insights.
  • Reporting: Compiling our findings into a comprehensive report that will be made publicly available for all of you.

Would you like to join the WG Survey team and contribute? Reach out to us anytime with a quick mail to spokesperson@leibniz-phd.net

Stay Tuned

We are committed to transparency and will be sharing the results with you once the analysis is complete. Your feedback not only helps us display the present state but also guides the future development of the overall working conditions for doctoral researchers of the 96 institutes and research museums of the Leibniz Association.

Final Thanks

Once again, thank you to all the participants for your time, effort, and valuable input. Your contribution is greatly appreciated, and we look forward to sharing the insights with you soon.

The Survey 2023/2024 is live!
The new survey is live. Request the link!

On February 2nd 2024 the new N2 Survey 2023–2024 went live. All doctoral researchers of the 96 institutes and research museums of the Leibniz Association have the opportunity to participate. The survey will be conducted until March 1st and subsequently evaluated by the working group Survey of the PhD Network.

Image of the landing page of the survey. The title of the survey is visible and it reads: "N2 Survey 2023-2024 - Leibniz PhD Network"

This year the survey covers the topics of Demographics, Working Conditions, Satisfaction, Supervison, Integration & Inclusion, Career Development, Family, Power Abuse, Mental Health and Crisis management. In the past years about 950 doctoral researchers within the Leibniz Association have participated in the survey.

Why participate? Data from this survey is used by the PhD Network and our academic institutions to identify systemic strengths and weaknesses and direct resources toward initiatives that will improve outcomes and experiences of doctoral researchers.

Our voices listened! – N2 participation on the expert exchange in a public commission meeting – German Federal Parliament.

On October 19th 2022, the N2 representation presented a statement in front of the parliament’s commission to express the interests of the Doctoral Researchers Network of non-university organizations in the improvement of the “basic working conditions in order to ensure scientific excellence and diversity in a sustainable manner”.

Here you can find the complete text of the speech.

This was the 3rd General Assembly of the Leibniz PhD Network

Extensive social interaction, interdisciplinary exchange and continuous discussions among 82 doctoral researcher representatives and working group members from 63 out of 93 institutes and museums made this event a vibrant experience. Many thanks to all attendees.

The 3rd General Assembly took place in Jena hosted by the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) and Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute FLI from 26th to 28th September, just right after the second birthday of the Network. As to expect from the sheer number activities in the last year starting from the survey on the situation of doctoral researchers in the Leibniz Association, the release of this very blog, the finalization of a first draft for a generic PhD agreement, the intensification of political work through N2, the network of networks, and the organisation of the first Conference of Interdisciplinarity of the Leibniz PhD Network (and the author doubts that this list is complete), the rooms which hosted a networking forum in which all these topics were presented and discussed on small tables were fully filled with people and voices, content and discussion.

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N² – Shaping the future now

Plenty of ideas are in the room and after full two days of intense discussions and exchange the list of future tasks looks impressive. From July- 27th to 28th the board of N² – The Network of Networks, in which Max Planck PhDNet, Helmholtz Juniors and the Leibniz PhD Network join forces, met in Potsdam to set its future agenda. The Leibniz PhD Network was represented by our spokespersons Katarzyna Stoltmann and Jan-Lucas Schanze.

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