Study title

Research conditions of professors at government scientific universities. Topics: Actual and desired time budget for teaching activity, examinations, research, university committee work, service duties and among doctors care for patients; projects with third-party funding; information on institution supporting research and information on advisory activities; number of assistents from regular university budget as well as scientific colleagues beyond this employed from research projects; sources of financing and persons employed from this and scholarships provided; research cooperation; judgement on current research situation at the university; number of published articles in technical journals and collections; pleasant experiences in profession and personal life; assessment of the relevance of one´s own research work for practice; personal efforts to establish relevance for practice; importance of professional experience in the area outside of the university; judgement on burdening or supporting factors for the research situation at the university; equipment, teaching burden and research activity; perceived changes in the teaching burden in the last few years, in self-administration effort, in obtaining third-party funding, in furnishing with materials, in equiping positions, with young researchers, in the cooperation opportunities and in general in acquisition of research duties; assessment of the future development of the situation of research at the university altogether and in one´s own subject in particular; preference for a status quo at the universities or desire for research universities, research professorships or out-sourcing research to the Max-Planck Institutes; length of occupying a teaching position as well as current teaching position. Also encoded was: agreement with a personal interview on the same topic.