Year: 2019
Type: report
Abstract: Obtaining a PhD degree is often seen as a unique opportunity that is worth pursuing.Passion for science, hoping to be able to develop a lifesaving medicine, finding a solution to climate change, trying to better understand other cultures, fighting inequality, … A multitude of motives encourage PhD students to start and to persist in the PhD process.However, expectations one might have at the beginning of the process are not always met, possibly leading to turnover intentions and sometimes even actual turnover.In ECOOM-brief 19, we studied the prevalence of turnover intentions in PhD students leaving in Flanders in 2018.We established that almost 13% of the PhD students thought about quitting at least several times a month.However, we are still in the dark as to the motives underlying these turnover intentions.In the current study, we answer two research questions:
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2990611517