Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to offer an initial presentation of the results from a survey conducted by the University of Pavia on its PhD graduates. Information was gathered regarding professional career paths chosen, job satisfaction and their doctorate experiences.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
At the time this chapter is going to press, few national initiatives to study the effectiveness of doctorate programs have been realized (e.g. by the University consortium STELLA) or planned (e.g. by the National Institute for Statistics – ISTAT).
- 2.
By including them in its standard reports and awarding them maximum publicity on the web site: http://nuv.apnetwork.it/attach/file/presentazionedottori.pdf.
References
Alkin MC, Daillak R, White P (1979) Using evaluation: does evaluation make a difference? Sage, Beverly Hills, CA
AlmaLaurea (2007) IX Indagine AlmaLaurea sulla condizione occupazionale dei laureati. il Mulino, Bologna
Avveduto S, Cipollone PE (1998) La mobilità delle intelligenze in Europa - Internazionalizzazione della formazione e dottorato di ricerca. Franco Angeli, Milano
Balthasar A, Rieder S (2000) Learning from evaluation. Evaluation 6(3):245–260
Bianchetti M, Della Ratta F, Lanzoni M, Pischedda V, Rizzo R, Usai MC (2003) Progetto CNVSU per la ricognizione, raccolta e analisi dei dati esistenti sul dottorato di ricerca e per l’indagine sull’inserimento professionale dei dottori di ricerca. Technical report, ADI – Associazione Dottorandi e Dottori di Ricerca Italiani
Bianchetti M, Della Ratta F, Lanzoni M, Pischedda V, Rizzo R, Usai MC (2006) Progetto CNVSU per la ricognizione, raccolta e analisi dei dati esistenti sul dottorato di ricerca e per l’indagine sull’inserimento professionale dei dottori di ricerca. Technical report, ADI – Associazione Dottorandi e Dottori di Ricerca Italiani
Brandi MC, Avveduto S (2000) Risorse umane: quale futuro nella scienza? Franco Angeli, Milano
Cesaratto S, Avveduto S, Brandi MC (1994) Il brutto anatroccolo. Il dottorato di ricerca in Italia fra università, ricerca e mercato del lavoro. Franco Angeli, Milano
CILEA (2006) Laureati STELLA, indagine occupazionale post-laurea laureate 2004 – indagine 2006. Technical report, CILEA, Segrate
Cronbach L (1963) Course improvement through evaluation. Teach Coll Rec 64:672–683
CRUI (2002) Proposta di un sistema di valutazione dei corsi di dottorato di ricerca. Technical report, Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane, Roma
Enders J (2002) Serving many masters: the PhD on the labour market. Higher Educ 44:493–517
Huisman J, De Veert E, Bartelse J (2002) Academic careers from a European perspective. J Higher Educ 73(1):141–160
Mangematin V (2000) PhD job market: professional trajectories and incentives during the PhD. Res Policy 29:741–756
Patton MQ (1997) Utilization focused evaluation. The new century text. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA
Acknowledgment
I would like to thank Stefano Govoni, all the other members and the staff of the Nucleo di Valutazione of the Pavia University, not only for having accepted this evaluation activity so enthusiastically, but also for having believed in it, for the support given, and for the use of the results that we have promoted. I also acknowledge the help of Francesca Pozza for the analyses and the work of Nicoletta Parise who, although busy in other fields, organized and supervised the survey and performed the checks and the first analyses on the data with the highest level of professionalism. All responsibility for content and conclusions stated within this chapter and for all possible mistakes are attributable to the author only.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Campostrini, S. (2011). After the PhD: A Study of Career Paths, Job and Training Satisfaction Among PhD Graduates from an Italian University. In: Attanasio, M., Capursi, V. (eds) Statistical Methods for the Evaluation of University Systems. Contributions to Statistics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2375-2_14
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2375-2_14
Published:
Publisher Name: Physica-Verlag HD
Print ISBN: 978-3-7908-2374-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-7908-2375-2
eBook Packages: Mathematics and StatisticsMathematics and Statistics (R0)