Panel design with yearly surveys:
Every new cohort starts with a base survey, which inquires about applicants’ current and previous (academic) employment situations, their doctorate, their career prospects and aspirations, as well as their family and personal life situations. The base surveys are administered in the period between the application deadline and the notification of the funding decision.
Subsequently, the survey participants receive a monitoring survey every year. These monitoring surveys are administered to all the participants who completed the respective base survey, irrespective of whether their application was successful or not. The monitoring surveys follow up on the participants’ employment situation, their continuance in their academic career, their mobility and research productivity, as well as their family and personal life situations.
