Join the CEN Workshop on ‘Good practice for implementation of a career-tracking survey for post-graduates!
The purpose of this workshop is to create consensus-based guidelines with recommendations to implement career-tracking surveys of PhD holders.
Call for Posters for DocEnhance Final Event
We invite stakeholders and sister projects to submit posters related to the topic “Bridging the gap between doctoral education and labour market”.
How do non-academic employers consider PhD holders’ skills?
An online consultation among potential employers outside academia surveyed the importance of transferable skills acquired by PhD holders on the labour market. This report presents the results of the online…
DocEnhance Annual Meeting 2022
21 June 2022, DocEnhance partners had the pleasure to meet in person for the project’s annual meeting in Manchester. Bärbel Tress from Tress Academic and project Advisory Board member opened…
DocEnhance Stakeholder Validation Workshop
When: 22 June 2022, 9:00 – 11:00 CET Where: University of Manchester, UK (University Place, 176 Oxford Road) The DocEnhance project aims to enhance skills intelligence and integration into existing PhD…
Best practices and resources in doctoral supervision training
In conjunction with the EUA-CDE Annual Meeting at the University of Manchester, DocEnhance Partners are organising a meeting to discuss best practices and resources in Doctoral Supervision Training. Nordic regional pre-conference…
DocEnhance at the 5th International Conference on the Development of Doctoral Education
Doctoral supervision has been hampered in numerous ways over the last two years due to social distancing and lockdowns caused by the Covid pandemic. During this period, the European funded DocEnhance project has provided a set of broad guidelines and resources to set up courses aimed at enhancing doctoral supervision, which are being piloted at several partner universities.
Stakeholder Evaluation Workshop
The pilot courses on transferable skills developed by DocEnhance are regularly evaluated throughout the project. Participant students to the first round of pilot courses provided their feedback through an online…
Feedback from the first round of pilot courses
The first round of the project’s pilot courses on transferable skills is completed, providing input for courses’ adaptation.
Results from DocEnhance career-tracking survey
What comes after a PhD? Findings from the DocEnhance survey of doctorate holders on their career, skills match, and value of the doctorate.
Survey among non-academic employers on the added value of a PhD
What is the added value of a doctorate degree for a job outside academia? DocEnhance invites all non-academic employers to fill out a short consultation survey about the added value…
DocEnhance Stakeholder Evaluation workshop
Take part in evaluating the DocEnhance Platform! 13 September, 10:00 – 12:00 CET, onlineDuring the EUA-CDE Annual Meeting The DocEnhance project aims to enhance skills intelligence and integration into existing…
Watch DocEnhance’s presentation at the Eurodoc conference!
DocEnhance representatives were pleased to share the project’s experience on how integrating transferable skills training in PhD programmes during the third session on “Career Development of Early-Career Researchers”.
DocEnhance mid-term review
Beginning of June 2021, the project held its mid-term technical review meeting. Policy officers from the European Commission offered valuable insight and suggestions to improve the project’s development. Each work…
2,200 doctoral candidates completed career-tracking survey
The DocEnhance career-tracking survey asked PhD graduates from eight universities across Europe about their careers since graduation. The aim is to explore: the types of jobs taken by PhD students…
DocEnhance present at the EuroDoc Annual Conference
Transferable skills in doctoral education: Experience from the DocEnhance project EuroDoc Conference 2021 14 – 15 July, Prague and online DocEnhance is pleased to share the project’s experience at the…
Take part in the Career Tracking Survey and help your university improve its PhD programmes!
Not all PhD students plan to pursue a career in academia after graduating. Whether they wish to remain in academia or choose to move to other sectors, understanding how to…
Are you a European University? Join our career-tracking survey!
One of DocEnhance’s core outputs is a career-tracking survey among PhD holders to map their career-paths and evaluate their skills training. Find out more about the survey here! It is…