DZHW Scientists Survey 2023 

The DZHW Scientists Survey 2023 is an online survey of full-time academic and artistic staff at German universities and equivalent institutions of higher education with the right to award doctorates. It is repeated at regular intervals as a trend study to explore the working and research conditions at German universities and equivalent institutions of higher education.
The DZHW Scientists Survey 2023 was conducted from January to March 2023. The respondents therefore take a retrospective look at their working and research conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic and their current post-pandemic situation. The previous Scientists Surveys took place in 2010, 2016 and 2019/2020.
The DZHW Scientists Survey is designed as a multi-topic survey. Each survey consists of a core questionnaire with central questions, many of which have already been asked in one or more previous Scientists Surveys, as well as advanced modules with questions on focus topics.
The core questionnaire contains the following thematic blocks: “Key data on scientific biography”, “Research and working conditions”, “Research funding”, “Publication behavior and knowledge transfer”, “Science policy topics and attitudes” and “Demography”. Within these thematic blocks, the topics “Continuing education courses in higher education didactics”, “Considerations on leaving academia” and “Research during the Corona pandemic” were included in the DZHW Scientists Survey 2023 for the first time.
The focus topics in the advanced modules of the DZHW Scientists Survey 2023 were “Research Information/Digital Infrastructures/Informational Self-Determination”, “Digital Scholarly Communication”, “Science Mobility”, “Research Funding”, “Trust within Science”, “Tenure Track and Researcher Independence” as well as “Peer Review and Lotteries in Research Funding”. The data on the advanced modules are currently still subject to an embargo period.