Nacaps 2018 - wave 2 (doctoral candidates) 

Welcome to the doctoral candidates and doctorate holders survey "Nacaps"! For a German version of the survey please click on the flag in the header! Depending on your personal life situation, the survey will take about 20 to 30 minutes. You can also complete the survey on your smartphone, but answering on a larger screen is easier and faster. You can interrupt the survey at any time and continue at a later moment. Once you have answered all the questions, you will then have the opportunity to participate in the announced raffle. We already thank you for partcipating in the survey at this point! Dr. Kolja Briedis and Dr. Antje Wegner Project management Nacaps Your participation is voluntary, of course. Your information will be used for research and evaluation purposes. All Nacaps data will be published and made available to other scientists anonymously only. Your contact details will always be processed and stored separately from the survey data. Under no circumstances will your contact information be shared with third parties. Yes, I have read the data privacy statement (see link above) and I agree with it. Contact If you have questions about data privacy, please contact the data protection officer of the DZHW, Mr Martin Fuchs: Tel.: +49 511450670-491; Email: datenschutz@dzhw.eu. Further information about data protection at the DZHW can be found here. For all other questions and comments we are at your disposal: You can call the staff member Carola Teichman via telephone under +49 30 206 417 146. She can also be contacted via email at nacaps@dzhw.eu. Please note that if you do not consent to the data protection conditions it will not be possible for you to take part in the Nacaps survey, unfortunately. 

The survey is structured into four topics represented by the letters A to D. In February 2019, you were officially registered as a doctoral candidate at your university and participated in the first survey of Nacaps. Something could have changed in the meantime. Please indicate your current status. 

For what reasons did you interrupt your PhD/doctoral project? 

For what reasons did you quit your PhD/doctoral project? 

Is the interruption reported officially to your university? 

How far along were you with your PhD/doctorate?,How far along are you with your PhD/doctorate? 

To what extent do the following statements apply to you? I am convinced that I… 

Do/Did you ever seriously consider quitting your PhD/doctorate? 

To what extent do/did the following reasons play a role in this?,To what extent do/did the following reasons play a role in your decision to quit the PhD/doctorate? 

Does your university know that you quit your PhD/doctorate?