MORE

Description

MORE (Mobility Survey of the Higher Education Sector) is arguably the most comprehensive empirical study of researcher mobility available. The study targets researchers working in different fields at higher education institutes in the EU and associated countries. It provides internationally comparable data on personal characteristics and education, current employment and working conditions, as well as a range of measures on international (and sector) mobility, including factors that influence mobility, and effects that can be linked to researcher mobility. MORE also has a longitudinal dimension. It currently consists of a proto-study (MORE I in 2009), a fully-fledge study (MOREII in 2012) while a third iteration is under planning for 2018 (MOREIII).The MOREII dataset includes 10,500 responses stratified by country and field of science.

The study addressed mobility as a “multidimensional concept”, distinguishing between international and inter-sectoral mobility, PhD and post-PhD mobility, mobility of more than three months and less than three months; employer mobility and virtual mobility. The surveys also addressed the phenomenon of non-mobility within careers.

The MORE2 case study on the working conditions and career paths in selected countries relies on the iFQ conceptual framework to study academic career systems. Following Gläser (2001), the complexity of academic careers is understood as caused by the fact that researchers work simultaneously in several social contexts: the science context, the societal context and the higher education context. Academics’ career paths are conceptualised as guided by the formal and informal set of rules that emerge from these three institutional contexts. Such rules are collapsed into five basic sets that capture these complex and overlapping dynamics: academic’s employment; credentials; intra-organizational practices; inter-organizational relationships and academic disciplines.

Meta-Data

Study Title (long)	Mobility Survey of the Higher Education Sector
Study Title (short)	MORE
Coordinating Institution	IDEA Consult
Creator	IDEA Consult
Contributor	NIFU STEP WIFO LOGOTECH The University of Manchester
Sponsor	European Commission DG Research
Type	Repeated cross section
Description of Observations	researchers (FRASCATI manual definition) at higher education institutes in the EU and associated countries The definition covers professionals with tertiary (or higher) education and not “technicians and equivalent staff” or “other supporting staff”. The accuracy of the definition was confirmed by a question in the survey
Waves	2
Duration	2009,2012
Country	United Kingdom Italy Turkey Ireland Switzerland Iceland Sweden Hungary Spain Greece Slovenia Germany Slovakia France Romania Finland Portugal Estonia Poland Denmark Norway Czech Republic Netherlands Cyprus Malta Croatia Macedonia (FYROM) Bulgaria Luxembourg Belgium Lithuania Austria Latvia
URL	-
Documentation	http://risis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MORE2-HANDBOOK.pdf
Publisher	http://risis.eu/
Keywords	Career stages Careers of Researchers Research Careers Geographical mobility Research Mobility Sector Mobility

Documentation

http://risis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MORE2-HANDBOOK.pdf

Data Collection Rounds [= waves]

The MORE project currently consists of a proto-study (MORE I in 2009) and a follow up study (MOREII in 2012).