Principal Investigators and Research Leaders Survey (PIRLS)

The Principal Investigators and Research Leaders Survey (PIRLS) gathers the anonymous views and experience of research leaders in UK higher education institutions.

The survey aims to capture their activities and attitudes in relation to research leadership and the management of research staff and supervision of postgraduate researchers. It aims to capture respondents' views on the capabilities that make them research leaders and how these capabilities may be developed in research staff as they seek to become the research leaders of the future.

As many research leaders are responsible for and manage research staff, the results also provide the opportunity for comparison with the results of the Careers in Research Online Survey (CROS) 2011 and a view of progress by institutions of the implementation of the principles of the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers.