{"id":14225,"date":"2019-11-14T08:06:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=14225"},"modified":"2019-11-14T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:58:29","slug":"performance-management-has-long-contributed-to-ill-health-in-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/11\/performance-management-has-long-contributed-to-ill-health-in-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance management has long contributed to ill health in researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

… which is the legend to a picture in Nature’s 13th Nov editorial<\/a> accompanying their recent survey<\/a> of 6,000 graduate students.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m concerned about the very competitive nature of early-career scientists. At some institutions people are very cut-throat rather than being supportive of colleagues.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only 44% are satisfied with the decision to pursue a PhD.<\/p>\n

I wonder if these are the same 38% who expected an intellectual challenge (those students we are most interested in)?<\/p>\n

The full dataset is online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\r\nlist.of.packages <- c("ggplot2", "openxlsx")\r\nlapply(list.of.packages, require, character.only = TRUE)\r\ntmp <- tempfile()\r\ndownload.file("https:\/\/ndownloader.figshare.com\/articles\/10266299?private_link=74a5ea79d76ad66a8af8",tmp)\r\nunzip(tmp,exdir="\/Users\/wjst\/Desktop")\r\nunlink(tmp)\r\nphd <- read.xlsx("\/Users\/wjst\/Desktop\/Nature_PhD survey_Anon_v1.xlsx", sheet = "Cleaned data - anonymised", startRow = 1, colNames = TRUE, rowNames = FALSE, detectDates = TRUE, skipEmptyRows = TRUE, skipEmptyCols = FALSE, rows = c(1,3:6811), cols = NULL, check.names = FALSE)\r\n# the word documentation has wrong variable names!\r\nphd[phd$Q28=="No" & !is.na(phd$Q28),"Depressed"] <- c(0)\r\nphd[phd$Q28=="Yes" & !is.na(phd$Q28),"Depressed"] <- c(1)\r\nggplot(data = phd) +\r\n  geom_mosaic(aes(x = product(Q17, Q19.a) ), na.rm=TRUE, fill="blue")\r\n<\/pre>\n
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Good to see that “intellectual challenge” and “high satisfaction” occupies the largest area. But who is getting ill?
\n(TBC)<\/p>\n\n
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… which is the legend to a picture in Nature’s 13th Nov editorial accompanying their recent survey of 6,000 graduate students. I\u2019m concerned about the very competitive nature of early-career scientists. At some institutions people are very cut-throat rather than being supportive of colleagues.\u201d Only 44% are satisfied with the decision to pursue a PhD. … Continue reading Performance management has long contributed to ill health in researchers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14225"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14243,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions\/14243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}