The Swiss-Wide Mental Health Survey (SWiMS) is a national initiative led by actionuni, carried out together with 13 mid-level staff associations from higher education institutions across Switzerland. The goal of SWiMS is to provide a comprehensive, data-driven picture of the mental health, well-being, and working conditions of academic mid-level staff across Switzerland. Academic mid-level staff … Continued
Surveys and reports
Mental health is crucial, especially in the high-pressure environments of higher education. As we do not know exactly how mid-level academic staff in Switzerland is doing and what could be done to improve the situation, we established this survey to uncover challenges and opportunities for improvement both locally and nationally. Take the survey here: https://bit.ly/SWiMS24 … Continued
Federal council report in response to the postulat 22.3390 obtained thanks to the petition academia (to learn more about the petition, click here). The report can be found here (german/french)
In response to the postulat 22.3390, the The Federal Council commissioned an external agency (Barbara Haering) to conduct a review of the situation of mid-level staff and propose solutions. The report can be found here (french/german)
Through its new study, the Swiss Science Council (SSC) is contributing to the recent and ongoing debate on the working conditions and career prospects of young scientists. The CSS’s work aims first and foremost to fill a gap in quantitative data on the postdoctoral population at Swiss universities and their career paths. It also aims … Continued
The SNSF has been examining the working conditions of staff employed in SNSF-funded research projects. Nearly 4000 early-career researchers from all Swiss higher education institutions responded to the survey. To the survey
From Mid-Level Academic Staff and from Professors – As collected by the collective petition academia (2020-2021)
73.5% of junior academics at the University of Zurich regularly work overtime. Half of them work 10 or more hours per week. This is shown by a broad-based survey conducted by VPOD Zurich. What is particularly controversial is that because time recording is voluntary and hardly established, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, assistants, and research assistants … Continued
During the summer of 2021, the University of Geneva (UNIGE) conducted an in-depth survey on the working and career conditions of teaching and research staff (CCER). The results highlighted areas of satisfaction as well as several issues. The UNIGE survey was developed by the Rectorate after consulting with members of the CCER representative association ACCORDER, … Continued
Our member from the University of Basel, avuba, has just published a comprehensive survey of UniBasel postdocs, carried out in 2020, a year we are unlikely to forget. The data is impressive and shows how much change is needed for mid-level staff, and specifically postdoc, employment, support and promotion. An overview of the datasets in … Continued