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RESEARCH_AND_RELATED_CAPACITY_STRENGTHENING

Examining Participation and Quality of Experiences of Women in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics: Postgraduate Training Programs and Careers in East Africa, IDRC Women in STEM

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, 2021 - 2023
Research and Related Capacity Strengthening (RRCS)
Evelyne Gitau, PhD
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Ways you think your supervisor could support you manage the impacts of COVID19 o (Waysyouthinkyoursupervisorc)

Data file: IDRC Women in STEM Online Survey Dataset

Overview

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Questions and instructions

Literal question
What are some ways you think your supervisor or line manager could support you or help you manage the impacts of COVID-19 on your research work?
Categories
Value Category
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- Frequent communication - Seek appropriate collaborations - Information on available grants
- work online -zoom meeting
-Designing better methods to reach out to participants - Considerate in giving timelines
-Prividing prompt feedbacks. -Supporting to get some technology material
-Provide internet -Support on establishing home office
1. Discussing my progress through zoom meeting
ANY
About finance
Academic guidlines
Accelerate my university admission process
Access to online webinars and resources
Actually i have no research work
Add more funds
Add more time and guide me through
Adjust timeline
All remained the same
Allocating sufficient time /resources for my study/research
Allow a flexible program
Allow flexible working schedule
Allow me enough free time to work(line manager) Increase his availability
Allow me sometime when needed to prepare and attend school in relation to my research work.
Allow online communicatio
Allow working from home
Allowing convenient work schedules like shifts
Ask university to arrange for bundles so we can use internet
Automating access to research funds
Availability and financial support for publication
Availing tools necessary
Be a mentor
Be connected ,finance connection
Be digital
Be flexible about virtual meetings and consultations. Be understanding of the situation and supportive and not critical
Be more available
Be more available to show guidance
Be more engaging and supportive.
Be open for virtual meetings. Be open to suggestions. Reduce the workload and responsibilities.
Being close and giving guidelines
Being more empathetic that juniors are were they (seniors ) have been
Best communication
By allowing me to work from home on days that there are no involving tasks at the office
By balancing administrative and teaching responsibilities to allocate time for research
By being more responsive
By giving out working leave in case of any sign of Covid 19
By increasing the research budget
By providing proper guidelines
By providing reliable internet
By support the ministry healthy of health in crating awareness and finding scientific solutions
By supporting me with a laptop and data
Cannot recommend. Wish i will get job soon.
Care more
Care to read through my work and guide me on what to do
Communicate regularly
Communication frequently
Communication through emails
Consider these period and challenges faced when reviewing performance
Consideration of reports an keep eyes unti something good happens
Consistent communication
Constant communication on how I am doing would help
Constant follow up
Constantly checking in and giving a guidance on set goals
Continuous awareness, capacity building, networking
Continuous follow up Accessible internate Affordable internate
Continuous mentorship in study protocol development and data analysis.
Corporation - Timely feedback
Creating time n organizing frequent meetings
Creating zoom meeting
Currently there impacts of COVID 19 subsided and both work and research are moving on normally
Cv
Do not know
Doing online
Effective communication
Email
Embrace online meetings to discuss research/project activities. Assist in acquiring travel permits and payment for COvid-19 tests.
Embrace online technology
Emotional support
Enhance communications
Enhance online support systems
Enlightenment on research errors
Ensure access to teaching aids for online teaching
Extend time to meet deadlines
Extending deadlines
Extending time for completion and Datelines
Facilitate lab expenditure
Facilitate me financially to have research teams, to publish and travel to attend conferences
Facilitate my work by ensuring availability of internet
Facilitate with data
Facilitating access to good internet connectivity from home.
Facilitation with computer and assistive technologies to work remotely.
Financial support
Financially
Flexibility: Allowing for flexible work arrangements such as remote work or adjusting work hours to accommodate personal circumstances, could be helpful. Communication: Regular and clear communication about my research work and addressing any
Flexible hours of working
Flexible timelines and constant communication of updates
Flexible working hours
For my supervisor I would like to invite him to support returning in my pre-position
For now not applicable
For years
Frequent online mentorship and meetings when in-person sessions are not possible instead of waiting until Covid -19 waves subside
Funding
Funding my projects
Funding some trainings and workshop
GIVING TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT
Getting the feedback on time
Give me more time to do research.
Give me time
Give me time off so that I can get protected time to write
Give me time to complete my thesis
Give reasonable timelines
Give some more time to complete my research
Give timely feedback
Giving advice in relation to covid 19
Giving me computer would help me
Giving more support
Giving more support in terms of timely responses
Giving stipends
Having financial support to go far from my family for concentration
Having frequent consultations
Having full access to tools needed to do my research work like the internet
He did his best
He has done a pretty good job at this.
Help I finding funding opportunities
Help in sourcing for funding.
Help me get research funds.
Help with internet facilities to work effectively from home
How to get Eresources
I am done
I am not affected by covid 19
I am okay with the current situation
I do not have a supervisor
I don't has
I don't know there is anything i can get from him
I got every support I needed. He was always calling me, asking me how I feel and giving enough advice so not to loose any of my time.
I have enough suppor
I have no idea
I managed with my three students who faced lockdowns in Zambia, Rwanda and Kenya
I need a job for my upkeep, research funding (fees) and for study materials. If he can provide that then I will really appreciate and complete my studies
I think a definite time progression timeline will help put things in order
I think line manager wakes you up and motivates you to work hard in order to meet the dealine
I would prefer that they help me get funds to complete my project and also get a stipend to sustain me during my data collection since the stipend i receive at the university will be stopped on August
If he can connect me to a donor
Improve Internet connectivity
Improve on response time
Improve the distance assistance and collaboration
In Europe
Increased provision of internet accessibility
Integration of technology in SOPs
Internet
Internet bandwidth costs
Internet provision
Internet support
Internet to be in place
It is difficult
Just organize more online meetings
Keep in touch more often
Kept directing via email
Laptops ,and other scholastic materials
Less loading to allow more time researching
Less teaching and supervisory responsibilities
Link to funding
Listening more to opinions
Longer timelines to achieve targets since my support staff work remotely and in shifts
Maintain communication
Making a flexible deadline
Meeting with her to discuss my project
Mentor
Moral support
More access to funding opportunities
More internet connexion
More online meetings
More training
Motivation
My supervisor has already done enough by allowing me to find a laboratory in Kenya and continue with my work as opposed to waiting until the COVID-19 pandemic to ease.
My supervisor has been very supportive. I couldn't ask for more
My supervisor is quite supportive
My work requires a team and the inability to convene has made decision making considerably tediuos
N
N//A
N/A
NA
NO IMPACTS OF COVID-19 ON MY WORK
Need team to write projects
Networking with other departments or institutions of higher learning in finding research equipments for easy accessibility to facilitate faster research.
Nil
Nill
No
No idea
No impact
Non
None
None really. We just all have to learn to cope better, everyone is affected
Not applicable
Not applicable because my work hours don't collide with my education hours
Not doing research yet
Not much alternatives are there.
Nothing
Nothing more
Nothing.
Now that time is already lost,, get me swifter examiners to read and mark my dissertation when it's ready.
Online Zoom meetings and assigning young post docs. to do the mentorship.
Online collaboration
Online engagement Review of deliverables
Online meeting
Online meetings
Online supervision , video assisted presentation
Online system improved
PROVIDE INTERNET
PROVIDE TIME
Pay rise
People
Perform online meetings and discussions
Plan and implement accordingly, this can facilitate employees to spare sometimes to work on their research projects, including me.
Plan together
Prefer not to say
Prevent pandemic deseases in the organisation
Prompt response and linkage to funding because most research involving sequencing are expensive
Prompt response and review of research documents
Prompt response to emails.
Provide a positive environment
Provide all the necessary requirements for research
Provide assistive resources
Provide bundles
Provide data bundles to work from home
Provide deadlines in advance
Provide enough time for my project
Provide facilities to mitigate COVID-19 impact. Funds allowing publication activities.
Provide financial assistance
Provide funding
Provide funding for internet acess
Provide funds
Provide incentives for my internet
Provide internet bundles
Provide internet connection
Provide leadership and internet connectivity
Provide more resources for online access
Provide necessary resources to work from home
Provide quick feedback
Provide relaiable internet
Provide reliable internet and refresher course on the online teaching tools
Provide resources for working from home like printer
Provide some airtime for internet
Provide some time off duty so that I can direct more focus in completing my academic work
Provide supportive services like counseling services
Provide the necessary training on online platforms for lecturing and facilitate data for the same.
Provide timely feedback and also be accessible
Providing achievable deadline
Providing domestic Wi-Fi or house centered Internet
Providing enough assistance to catch up
Providing internet for me
Providing timely feedback on my requests.
Provision of appropriate work environment and facilities including offices and reliable internet connectivity
Provision of facilities such as laptops to work with.
Provision of internet support
Provision of laptop and broadband
Provision of masks and sanitizers
Provision of opportunities for funding
Provision of reliable internet connectivity
Psychological support
Putting library materials online. Allowing me working at home regularly. Provision of internet
Quite difficult to tell but perhaps allowing us to manage our health as responsible workers rather than controlling our access to vital resources.
Raise university funds for research
Re employ me so that I can get first hand information for my research
Really encouraging me to keep working on my literatire review chapter and not just to stay at home
Reduce work load to allow more time for research
Reduce workload to allow some time for research
Reducing on the teaching load to create time for research
Reducing workload
Referrals and recommendations
Regualar online meetings with financial motivation
Regular and frequent guidance after reading my work
Regular check up and updates about what is happening. Provision of data as we are more dependent on the internet these days
Regular checking and ask about the challenges am encountering.
Regular communication about the progress
Regular feedbacks on correspondences.
Regular meetings
Regular online meeting
Relax on timelines Increase on financial support Provide data
Reliable internet at home Conducive environment
Reliable network
Replying to my mails timely
Rien
Scholarships
Send more books online
Set clear daily/weekly tasks and timelines Effective communication
Set up physical meetings to help me continue with my thesis corrections and guidance.
Sharing available data
Show me some other ways of collection of data than physical
Smooth communication and assignment specific tasks
Some funds
Source for reagents from their networks
Source funding/grants Enough time to carry research work
Sponsor me for phd
Study leave approval
Support
Support and guidance
Support operational research to understand some of concerns that are vaguely understod
The Line manager is also affected. I don't think there is anything to do.
The impacts of COVID-19 on my research work are many because my accessibility for working was stopped
The same as before
There are policies and guidelines set by the organization on conducting research during COVID period. These have been helpful in restarting recruitment
There is nothing much they can do
There is nothing they could have done since it was out of their hands
They are giving me all the support required
They could give access to the good internet and tell what to do they need and give me advices
They should be more proactive with use of e-based applications
They're trying
They're very helpful
Through communication
Through continuous follow-up and haste replying of emails
Through guidance
Through provision of tools like researches and publications done concerning my research work
Timely access to finances
To do the work online
To give me enough work
To give me more guidance
To have opportunities to visit foreign laboratories
To help for finding mobility
Try to link up with the funding organizations and government agencies
Understand and tolerate the speed of progress of my worrk
Utilization of technology to support activities
Via phone
WELL
We needed, continued support and our research needed, to have proceeded online not postponing the academic year
We're somewhat better
When the covid 19 measures were eased , my supervisor supported getting permission from the local authority
Work collaboratively
Work online
Yes
You asked to many questions
Zoom meetings
_
be more available and reliable
create time for weekly meetings we go through my thesis
creating more physical time with me
don't know
during COVID 19 there are many impacts either physically, economically, or mentally, and I believe that nowadays we have to take care of our mental health issues as we took care of our physical issues, I feel like I am running out of time thing
early email reply
extend timelines prompt release of resources
financial support
fnalubwama2@gmail.com
funding my research
funding opportunities and access to reading and labolatory materials
give more funds and facilities
if i can get a scholarship
implements the solution of e-learning
in my country, covid is not that serious
in-time supervision
increase more online meeting
increase time for supervision
letting me to do some works at home
n/a
na
no support because now there is no significant impacts of covid-19
none
not applicable
nothing t0 say
offer support in research field work
offering the internet bundles
online communication
online guidance
prompt responses on communication and queries
proper guidelines
provide research material like useful links to online information resources/database etc
provide internet bundles
provide masks, temperature check devices and personalized sanitizers
provide me with enough materials and day to day follow up
provide more training
provide necessary protocols of working
provide opportunities to fund research
providing internet bundles
provision with tools to access ma research
reduce my workload
set guidelines of their expected standard
supervising online
support which need hands , physical meeting more so research
talking online atleast two week
to give an extension
to improve communication and even organise for virtual meetings at this time of COVID
vaccine access
we communicate oftenly
work closely with me.
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Question pretext
Effect of the covid19 pandemic on women's progression
Question post text
Ways you think your supervisor or line manager could support you or help you manage the impacts of COVID-19 on your research work?
Interviewer instructions
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Description

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Participants indicates some ways they think their supervisor or line manager could support you or help you manage the impacts of COVID-19 on their research work
Universe
Women in STEM
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