Dear Junior Faculty members*

The Junior Faculty Steering Group at KI has organized a survey on authorship, funding, and work environment.

This survey aims to access the situation for researchers at KI. This by representing you, communicate the findings to KI leadership, and identify actionable solutions in line with your needs. It is critical that you take part in this survey to ensure that all voices are heard.

Your answers will be anonymous and untraceable. The collected data will be presented at group level.

*The Junior Faculty includes preclinical and clinical researchers, e.g., postdocs, research specialists (junior and senior) assistant professors, junior researchers and senior researchers. Meaning, everyone with a PhD that does not yet hold a permanent position as senior lecturer or professor.

 

General information

- This survey takes about 10 minutes to fill in
- When we refer to PI we address any of the following positions: supervisor/immediate boss/group- or team leader/professor/PI/project manager at KI

Questions on Demographics 

1.
Do you identify yourself as
2.
What age group do you belong to? 
3.
What is your current residency
4.
What is your country of birth? Please specify or leave blank if you don’t want to answer
5.
What are your parents' countries of birth? Please specify or leave blank if you don’t want to answer
6.
Your level in the Swedish language is:
7.
Where did you obtain your PhD?
8.
What year did you obtain your PhD?
9.
What is your Department?
10.
Where does your salary come from? (Should add up to 100%)
Invalid, the value must be between 0 and 100
11.
Do you have another affiliation apart from your position at KI e.g., university, institution, hospital etc.?
12.
Based on KI Career structure for academic staff, which one describes your current profile? (Consider your current position at KI according to your contract)
13.
Is clinical work part of your employment? 
14.
Do you have a secondary occupation (bisyssla)?
15.
Did/are you doing your postdoctoral training at KI? 
16.
How many years after your PhD have you been working at KI (round up to full year, include years affiliated)?
17.
What is your current living situation?

Questions on Funding

18.
Do you have a PI in charge of your economy/research (mark all that applies)?
19.
Do you have access to your project accounts through UBW so that you are able to monitor them?
20.
Does/did your PI at KI encourage you to apply for your own grants? 
21.
Did your PI or department ever block you from applying for grants that could help you transition into an independent research career?
22.
Have you been blocked or discouraged from becoming a co-PI or independent PI on a grant? 
23.
Has your contract/employment ever been tied to a specific grant in a way that created precarity (e.g., non-renewal threatened)?
In the last year, have you applied to any... (mark all that apply)
24.
Has the funding that you obtained as a main applicant ever been used in a way that was inconsistent with your proposed or agreed upon budget plan? 
This question is compulsory
25.
If you have received a grant while at KI, in the past two years, what areas were covered by that grant? (Multiple choices are possible)
26.
If your received a grant that did not cover the full overhead costs, did you receive support from KI
27.
Does your department support you in grant applications?

Question on Authorship

28.
Are you familiar with the Vancouver rules regarding scientific article authorship? 
29.
Have you ever been included in a publication where you felt that you did not meet the criteria for authorship at KI
30.
Have other authors been added to your publication without meeting the criteria for authorship at KI
31.
Have you ever been excluded from a publication where you or your colleague felt that you did meet the criteria for co-authorship at KI
32.
Have other authors been excluded from your publication even though meeting the criteria for authorship at KI
33.
Have you participated in discussions regarding authorship positions prior to starting a new manuscript? 
34.
 Does/did your PI at KI discuss authorship positions with you before a new project and/or manuscript started?
35.
Has there been any situation where, at the time of submitting a manuscript from KI, previous decision on authorship order and/or position has been changed from those initially planned? 
36.
Did your current PI insert themselves into a prominent authorship position without fulfilling the Vancouver rules? 
37.
Have your current colleagues (not PI) insert themselves into a prominent authorship positions without fulfilling the Vancouver rules? 
38.
If an authorship problem arose, have you tried any formal resolution mechanism?
39.
Do you trust that KI will help/support you in case an authorship problem arises? 
40.
If you are not a PI, do you have the possibility to publish as last author?
41.
Did you ever consider leaving academia because of an authorship issue?

Questions on work environment and mental health symptoms 

Upon answering the following questions, please consider situations related to your current position or the past two years at KI 
42.
Have you ever experienced any threats e.g., sex, gender, and/or religion towards you as an individual at KI (please choose all options that suit your situation)
43.
Have you ever experienced threats regarding your research career at KI
44.
Have you ever experienced bullying at KI? 
45.
Do you have an immediate colleague who ever experienced any threats towards them as an individual at KI?
46.
Do you have an immediate colleague who experienced threats regarding their research career at KI?
47.
Do you have an immediate colleague who experienced bullying at KI? 
48.
Do you know to whom or how to report any of the above situations?
49.
 Do you know where or how to report a personal mental health issue? 
50.
Would you feel comfortable reporting any personal issue? (Please chose all that apply)
51.
Have you ever reported a personal issue to your department head? (Please chose all that apply)
52.
Do you trust that KI will/can help/support you in case of any issues? 
 YesNoI prefer not to answer
Mental health
Authorship
Funding misuse
53.
Do you trust that KI will/can help you to resolve a conflict between you and your PI?
54.
Is there a need for a JF representative at KI?
A JF representative would be someone to contact with issues related to your employment who will have your best interests in mind similar to the doctoral student ombudsperson
55.
Would you consider sick leave due to mental health issues, related to your KI employment? (Please chose all that apply)
56.
Have you been on sick leave due to issues such as threats or bullying related to your KI employment 
57.
Have you worked on your sick leave (including answering emails and administrative work)
This question is compulsory
58.
If you took parental leave during your time at KI, did you feel your career was negatively affected? 
59.
If you took parental leave during your time at KI, how long were you away (please report in weeks)?
60.
Has the work environment affected your decision to have or delay having children? 
61.
Are you a member of a union?

Concluding questions

62.
Do you see that you have a future at KI?
63.
Are you planning on leaving KI?
64.
Do you have any other comments or anything to add that you think might be of importance in relation to the questions asked?
65.
Where did you get information about the survey?

Thank you for participating in our survey! 

Your time and answers are extremely precious and valuable to us! Please find some information about JFSteg below: 

Our aim is to promote the development of a career system at all levels, through participation in KI boards and dialogue with KI leadership, funding agencies and the government. In addition, we provide support to junior faculty by organizing seminars, workshops and hearings; find more information on our website.

 

If you would like to get involved in any of our working groups or attend our events, you can send us an email at juniorfaculty@ki.se to be added to our JFSteg.