The WG Employment conditions are the working group in Eurodoc that focuses on the employment conditions of doctoral candidates and early career researchers. The working group was formed at the Eurodoc AGM 2022.

Employment conditions and welfare WG Coordinator: Marija Davcheva, a doctoral candidate at the University of Valencia, Spain.

This WG focuses on the employment conditions of doctoral candidates and early-career researchers. High-quality employment conditions are crucial for both the health and performance of ECRs and doctoral candidates. Thus, this EG will look into what are the specific challenges that ECRs face in Europe regarding their employment conditions and will provide policy recommendations for high-quality employment conditions.

The current activities of the working group are 

•  Study and analyse the employment conditions of PhD candidates and ECRs in Europe and create a policy paper on employment conditions.

Analyse and report on the postdoctoral survey carried out by Eurodoc in 2018-2019, addressing the working conditions (Project: “Eurodoc Postdoc Survey 2018-2019”)

How to sign up for the WG mailing lists

Each working group has an email list. Here, the working groups can keep in touch between meetings, such as calling for meetings and sharing information of interest to its members.

All Eurodoc has 6 working groups open for all Early career researchers and doctoral candidates affiliated with one or more of the members (national associations) of Eurodoc to join. In some cases, it is even possible for others to join these working groups.

If you wish to be added to the new email lists for any working groups, please sign up through this google form.