Wissenschaft weltoffen 2024: Daten und Fakten zur Internationalität von Studium und Forschung in Deutschland und weltweit

DZHW Scientists Survey 2023 

Survey Period: Jan 13, 2023 - Mar 31, 2023 Survey Data Type: Quantitative Data

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 ... moreexplore 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. less

National Academics Panel Study (Nacaps) 2018 

Survey Period: Feb 18, 2019 - Jun 1, 2022 Survey Data Type: Quantitative Data

Nacaps, the National Academics Panel Study, is a new longitudinal study of doctoral candidates and doctorate holders in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project aims at providing nationwide cross-sectional and lo... morengitudinal data on doctoral candidates and doctorate holders in Germany regarding their study conditions as well as their career trajectories within and outside of academia. The Nacaps study series apply a panel design to multiple cohorts. Nacaps 2018 is the first cohort in this series of studies. In 2019, all doctoral candidates registered at 53 higher education institutions entitled to award PhDs/doctorates in Germany as off 01.12.2018 were invited to a first survey. Further panel waves follow at yearly intervals. Topics of the survey are e.g. the kind and structure of doctoral studies, motives for conducting doctoral studies, the mentoring situation, working and employment conditions, plans for career paths after the doctorate, international mobility, as well as individual characteristics of respondents. By covering these topics and by considering important indicators on young scholars, the Nacaps data provide important knowledge for national reporting (e.g. the federal report on young academics called “Bundesbericht wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs”), for local steering, as well as for numerous further stakeholders. Moreover, the data offer an opportunity to investigate scientific research questions in the field of academic careers. less

InWiDeHo: Interviews with members of university management and group discussions with university staff 

Survey Period: Jul 1, 2022 - Jan 18, 2023 Survey Data Type: Qualitative Data

The research project InWiDeHo examined whether and, if so, what hurdles exist for international academics in transitioning from the postdoctoral phase to a permanent position as a professor at universities in Germany. As part of a qualitative study, intern... moreational early-career researchers and newly appointed professors were interviewed. Subsequently, surveys conducted at German universities investigated which organizational objectives and measures contribute to overcoming these hurdles. Based on the results, recommendations were derived on how to support the retention of international scientists in Germany and specifically how to increase the proportion of international professors at German universities. This data package consists of six expert interviews with members of university management and three group discussions with university administration staff. less

InWiDeHo: Interviews with International Academics (Postdocs and Professors) 

Survey Period: Jun 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2022 Survey Data Type: Qualitative Data

The research project InWiDeHo examined whether and, if so, what hurdles exist for international academics in transitioning from the postdoctoral phase to a permanent position as a professor at universities in Germany. As part of a qualitative study, intern... moreational early-career researchers and newly appointed professors were interviewed. Subsequently, surveys conducted at German universities investigated which organizational objectives and measures contribute to overcoming these hurdles. Based on the results, recommendations were derived on how to support the retention of international scientists in Germany and specifically how to increase the proportion of international professors at German universities. This data package contains the expert interviews with international academics, consisting of twelve interviews with academics in the postdoctoral phase and nine interviews with newly appointed professors. less

Pooled Data Set 10th - 21st Social Survey 1982 - 2016 

Survey Period: May 24, 1982 - Aug 31, 2016 Survey Data Type: Quantitative Data

The Social Survey is a series of surveys on the economic and social situation of students in Germany that has been in existence since 1951. At three- to four-year intervals, a cross-section of students is surveyed on aspects of university access, structura... morel features of study, social and economic situation, including income and cost of living, employment, housing situation, and socio-demographic characteristics such as ethnic and social origin, partnership status and parenthood. The data package includes data from the core set of the 10th to 21st Social Survey (1982-2016). The twelve individual scientific use files available at the FDZ-DZHW were pooled in an complex data preparation process to form an integrated dataset, which now enables elaborate time series analysis procedures on the aspects covered. less

The Student Survey in Germany (2021) 

Survey Period: May 4, 2021 - Sep 19, 2021 Survey Data Type: Quantitative Data

"The Student Survey in Germany" (2021) is a newly designed study that integrates three previously separate student surveys (Beuße et al., 2022): the Social Survey (Middendorff et al., 2017; Middendorff & Wallis, 2023), the Student Survey (Multrus et al... more., 2017; Multrus, 2021) and the survey "best - Studying with impairments" (Poskowsky et al., 2018; Unger et al., 2012). The study is designed as a cross-sectional survey with a long-term character. The new, integrated student survey thus continues the long tradition of the Social Survey and the Student Survey as important cross-sectional long-term observation studies for describing and analysing higher education and the student population in Germany, as well as the significantly shorter tradition of the previous "best studies". The survey covered a variety of topics relating to the study situation and the different life situations of students in Germany. The content of the programme is very diverse, as the thematic focuses of the previously separate surveys were integrated. In the tradition of the Social Survey, the economic and social situation of students is analysed (Middendorff, 2022). This focus is supplemented by topics from the student survey (Multrus et al., 2017). In addition, for the first time the new study design enables comparisons between students with and without health impairments that make studying difficult (Steinkühler et al., 2023). By combining survey content in this way, cross-connections between different subject areas can be established. This data package contains the survey data from the summer semester 2021. less