ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training Plus (CDT+) Fellow Survey 2026

Overview

Welcome to the ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training Plus (CDT+) Fellow Survey 2026

This survey is for fellows funded through The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB) only. Please do not complete if you are not a fellow funded by ESRC or Centre-UB. There are separate surveys for Centre-UB Students, Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) and Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) students.

ESRC recognise that the fellow voice is an important factor in evaluating the Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB). This survey asks about your experiences of your fellowship and is organised into the following sections:

• Fellow details
• Mentor arrangements
• Training and development
• CDT+ awareness
• CDT+ support
• Collaborative activities
• Interdisciplinary activities
• Cohort building
• Facilities
• Health and wellbeing
• Future aspirations
• Impact

Your responses will be combined with those of others to help inform both ESRC and your Centre for Doctoral Training Plus (CDT+) about the experience of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers, helping to improve future support.

Notes for completion

If a question does not apply to you, or you cannot offer any opinion on it, then please leave blank or mark “Not applicable”. The questionnaire should take around fifteen minutes to complete. When you arrive at the final 'thank you' page, you will know that your responses have been recorded on our database.

Please do not identify yourself or other individuals (including staff) in your comments. If you have a complaint or need support with any of the issues raised within the survey, please contact your institution.

This online survey has a 'save and return' feature that allows respondents to come back to an incomplete survey response at a later date without losing the information they've already entered as part of their response. The user must have cookies enabled in their web browser to use this feature, and the feature is not available for responses that have already been completed and submitted

Many thanks for your participation.