take a PhD Career Pathways Survey -by May 8 (forwarded)

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

Reminder-

Dear Postdocs,

Please see below the reminder/invitation to take a voluntary, 
confidential survey (forwarded from a colleague at Harvard), if you are 
interested. 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 below, and the survey link is *goo.gl/my1SfL* <http://goo.gl/my1SfL>
Melanie Sinche wrote, "I am entering the final week of data collection 
for my study, "Identifying Career Pathways for PhDs in Science," and 
would like to request your help once more in spreading the word. I will 
close the survey one week from today, May 8... Again, this study is 
measuring career outcomes for PhDs in any field of science, including 
the social sciences and engineering, who graduated between 2004 and 2014.

**
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. 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 <tel: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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