The two interactive questionnaires and manuals provide research-based tools for exploring doctoral and post-doctoral experiences across Europe. The C-DES and C-PDR manuals are provided in six languages including Finnish, Swedish, English, French, Spanish and Estonian. The questionnaires can be found in four languages; Spanish, English, Finnish and Catalan. Both questionnaires and manuals can be utilised by ECRs, supervisors, researchers, administrators, and other stakeholders involved in doctoral education to understand ECR experience better.

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The two questionnaires, C-DES and CPDR, have been cross-culturally designed, based on a series of qualitative/quantitative/mixed methods studies across seven European countries. The scales and open-ended questions have been piloted across a minimum of 4 European countries before putting into the use. Some of the measures have been revised based on the pilots. New measures such as life-work-balance scale have been developed based on the pilots, and some changed, such as the research conceptions- scale. The C-DES's final version has been validated across 7 European countries and the C-PDR across two countries. The validation procedures have included several rounds of confirmatory analysis. The Res&Covid questionnaire is now being validated based on the Spanish population (n=2.888) following similar procedures.