CNS Postdoctoral Scholar Survey

Please reflect on your experience as a CNS Postdoc before answering these questions. We would like to learn from your feedback as we plan the structure of the CNS Postdoctoral Scholars program in future years.Your responses will be confidential; they will be anonymized and aggregated with others' and used for the purpose of program evaluation. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact CNS Education Director Julie Dillemuth (julie@cns.ucsb.edu; 805-893-5929).

Name: *

Email: *

Home Discipline: *

The department from which you received your degree

Working Group:

WG 1 (Patrick McCray)

WG 2 (Chris Newfield)

WG 3 (Barbara Herr Harthorn)

WG 3 (Bruce Bimber)

WG 4 (Rich Appelbaum)

If you are no longer at CNS, would you like to continue to receive announcements about CNS events?: select...yes - all CNS announcements, including the weekly seminarsyes, but only the Weekly Clips, NanoMeeters, visiting speakersno, please remove me from the mailing lists

Postdoc position start and end dates: *

please enter the month and year, for example 'Oct 2008'

Current Position (if you are no longer at CNS): *

Please give your title, dept, institution/company/org

Career Goals:

Academia (postdoc, professor, etc.)

Industry/private sector

Nonprofit

Government/policy

Other

You may select more than one

If you selected "other" please elaborate:

1. On a scale of 1 to 4 please rate the following aspects of your CNS experience:

the quality of your working group experience: select...1 - poor2 - satisfactory3 - good4 - excellent

the quality of your interaction with your working group leader: select...1 - poor2 - satisfactory3 - good4 - excellent

the quality of your interaction with other CNS faculty: select...1 - poor2 - satisfactory3 - good4 - excellent

the quality of your interaction with the other CNS Postdocs: select...1 - poor2 - satisfactory3 - good4 - excellent

the quality of your interaction with the Graduate Fellows: select...1 - poor2 - satisfactory3 - good4 - excellentdid not mentor an intern

the quality of your interaction with CNS guest speakers/visitors: select...1 - poor2 - satisfactory3 - good4 - excellent

the quality of the CNS seminar: select...1 - poor2 - satisfactory3 - good4 - excellent

1a. Please use the space below to comment on any of the above:

2. How have you benefited from participation in CNS in general?:

3. What did you learn from your interaction with scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and training?:

4. What was the most challenging aspect of doing interdisciplinary research?:

5. As a Postdoc, did you have an opportunity to engage with non-CNS audiences? (i.e. students, local community, general public) Please give examples and comment on your experience:

6. How has participation in CNS made a difference to your academic research or career goals? Please give examples if possible:

7. How has your participation as a Postdoc in CNS extended your academic network of faculty and graduate researchers?:

Please give examples if possible.

8. Please describe any of your expectations about your CNS postdoctoral position that were NOT met during your participation.:

9. Please indicate what changes and/or additions you think would improve the quality of the CNS Postdoc experience.:

10. Any other comments or thoughts on your CNS experience? :