Table 1 The survey questions used in the statistical analysis

From: What do postdocs need to succeed? A survey of current standing and future directions for Australian researchers

Number

Question

1

Your primary research discipline

2*

How many hours per week do you actually work on average?

3

What would be the main reason you would consider leaving a career in research?

4

How confident do you feel that your career aims will be fulfilled?

5

I believe Australian researchers need to work overseas in order to be considered competitive for funding and promotion opportunities.

6

To what extent do you feel you have developed new research skills during your postdoctoral position(s)?

7

With regard to promotion to the next salary level in your current position, how important is teaching?

8*

How important do you personally consider teaching for a postdoctoral position?

9*

How important do you personally consider training a research higher degree (RHD) student as part of a postdoctoral position?

10

How useful have internal technical training courses been?

11

How useful have external technical training courses been?

  1. Values were compared by the gender of the respondent in GraphPad Prism (Version 7.0a), using a two-way ANOVA with a Tukey’s post-test for multiple comparisons (α=0.05). Means were compared across rows and columns. Questions that returned statistically significant differences are noted with an asterisk (*).