Table 2.
Questionnaires for the supervisors and doctoral students
| Questions for supervisors |
|---|
| 1. What were your expectations regarding the following: |
| 1.1 Your doctoral student(s) |
| 1.2 The host university (the university, where the doctoral student is registered) |
| 1.3 The sending institution or university |
| 1.4 The support the doctoral student(s) have to receive whilst undertaking field work |
| 1.5 The sponsor (EU) |
| 2. Have you experienced any difficulties – and if so, what kind? |
| 2.1 Difficulties linked to the scientific work of the doctoral students/to further education during the doctoral training of the students |
| 2.2 Organisational difficulties |
| 2.3 Financial difficulties |
| 2.4 Difficulties related to your role as a supervisor |
| 2.5 Others (please explain) |
| 3. Please estimate |
| 3.1 How long will your student(s) need to complete their doctorate successfully? |
| 3.2 How many of the doctoral candidates within QUALMAT do you think will be successful? (%) |
| 3.3 If you think that some will fail, what do you think the main reasons for this will be? |
| 4. Recommendations |
| 4.1 What would you do differently by the supervision of your next doctoral students? |
| 4.2 What advice would you give to other supervisors in a similar situation (doctoral students supervision in the frame of an EU-funded project)? |
| 4.3 What other recommendations would you make? |
| 5. Final points |
| 5.1 Are there any other issues you would like to raise? |
| Questions for the doctoral students |
| 1. What were your expectations regarding the following: |
| 1.1 Your supervisor |
| 1.2 Your host university (the university, where you are registered) |
| 1.3 Your sending institution or university |
| 1.4 The support you received whilst undertaking field work |
| 1.5 The sponsor (EU) |
| 2. Have you experienced any difficulties – and if so, what kind? |
| 2.1 Difficulties linked to your scientific work/your further education during the doctoral training |
| 2.2 Organisational difficulties |
| 2.3 Financial difficulties |
| 2.4 Difficulties related to your role/status as a doctoral student |
| 2.5 Others (please explain) |
| 3. Please estimate |
| 3.1 How long will you need to complete your doctorate successfully? |
| 3.2 How many of the doctoral candidates within QUALMAT do you think will be successful? (%) |
| 3.3 If you think that some will fail, what do you think the main reasons for this will be? |
| 4. Recommendations |
| 4.1 If you had the chance to repeat the process of starting your doctoral studies what would you do differently? |
| 4.2 What advice would you give to other doctoral students in a similar situation (conducing their research in the frame of an EU-funded project) |
| 4.3 What other recommendations would you make? |
| 5. Final points |
| 5.1 Are there any other issues you would like to raise? |