FW: Career Pathways for PhDs in Science study

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

Dear Postdocs,


Please see below the invitation to take a voluntary, confidential 
survey. This inquiry has been forwarded from a colleague at Harvard 
through GECD. Results from this survey will form the basis for the last 
chapter of a book she is writing on careers for science PhDs. Details 
are in her message below.

    [*Survey link: **goo.gl/my1SfL]* <http://goo.gl/my1SfL>

    **

    While the number of PhDs conferred in the U.S. has increased over
    the past several decades, the number of tenure-track faculty
    positions has remained flat. Recent studies have illuminated the
    change in career decisions of some PhDs over time, but none has
    described or visualized a career map detailing *where* recent PhDs
    are currently employed.

    The study “Identifying Career Pathways for PhDs in Science” will
    endeavor to accomplish this visual representation by collecting
    current employment data from PhDs who have studied, worked, or
    trained in the U.S. and received a doctorate in the last ten years.
    The study author and administrator is Melanie Sinche, Senior
    Research Associate in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law
    School.

    *If you have received a PhD in any of the physical, life,
    engineering, computational, or social sciences between 2004 and 2014
    from any institution worldwide and have ever studied, worked, or
    trained in the United States*, you are invited to participate in a
    *survey *study by completing the online survey below.

    The survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete and includes
    questions about career interests, activities, current employment,
    and motivations for choosing your career. At the end of the survey,
    you will be invited to participate in a drawing for one of five (5)
    $100 gift cards to Amazon.com <http://Amazon.com>. Responses to this
    optional drawing will not be linked in any way to the Career
    Pathways survey.

    *The survey can be found at **goo.gl/my1SfL* <http://goo.gl/my1SfL>*.*

    Participation in this study is entirely voluntary. The study has
    been approved by the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects at
    Harvard University (IRB #15-0063) To protect the privacy of
    participants, responses to the Career Pathways survey will be
    encrypted and kept on a password-protected, encrypted computer at
    all times. Please contact Melanie Sinche at msinche at gmail.com
    <mailto:msinche at gmail.com> or 919-270-9387 with any questions about
    this study.

    Thank you in advance for participating, and please do share the
    survey link with all individuals and/or groups who might meet the
    criteria above. Our goal is to gather as many responses as possible
    from recent PhDs to develop a careers map that is as comprehensive
    as possible.

    -- 

    Melanie V. Sinche, NCC
    Senior Research Associate

    Labor and Worklife Program

    Harvard Law School

    http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/LWPstaff.html

    msinche at gmail.com <mailto:msinche at gmail.com>

    919-270-9387

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