CWA 17987:2023

This document gives practical recommendations for implementation of career-tracking surveys. The current guidelines are meant for universities wishing to set up an institutional career-tracking survey. These surveys can be set up by higher education institutions, grant funding agencies or national statistics bodies, with the purpose to improve doctoral education and/or assess its quality and impact at an institutional or national level. It includes among others, surveys that trace back doctorate holders’ careers over several years, cohort studies at several moments in time or longitudinal surveys (based on the definition of career tracking of researchers, European Science Foundation, 2012 [3]; definition of tracking in EUA’s “Tracking Learners’ and Graduates’ Progression Paths” project [4]).