The purpose of the Exciton Science Membership Survey is to provide the Centre with an understanding of the key factors required for its members to contribute at their best and be part of a positive, professional working environment.
The feedback has provided insights about how the Centre is successfully engaging with its members as well as how it could further improve to support them more. The Centre has now conducted the survey over two years, both in 2019 and 2020
This ‘repeat’ 2020 survey was kept similar to the earlier survey to allow a comparison of the results between the two years.
The survey assessed the following areas for feedback:
In 2020 a total of 48 respondents submitted feedback with a 34% representation from PhD students, 29% Postdocs and 10%, 17% and 4% from operational staff, CIs and PIs/AIs respectively.
These surveys have provided the Exciton Science leadership with a real opportunity to engage with our members and utilise the results to inform new initiatives for the Centre.
The survey has highlighted the strengths of the Centre as being Culture, Diversity and Inclusion and Communication and Collaboration with a bit of work still to be done in Professional Development and Training and our internal Communication Channels.
The overall experience of members of Exciton Science is very positive: 95% rating this as ‘Good’ or ‘Excellent’. In fact, 100% of members rated their experience as either Excellent (54%), Good (41%) or Average (5%). This is a strong statement of the level of engagement of members so far – even where areas have been highlighted for improvement, members enjoy being part of the Centre.
Additionally the results for the 2020 survey showed a general improvement across the Centre in between years, which reaffirms that the Centre is on the right track. We look forward to implementing some of the great suggestions from our members throughout 2021.
Selected comments from the 2020 survey: