As a junior researcher, PhD candidate, postdoc or assistant professor, you can approach a confidential contact person. Confidential contact persons provide a low-threshold contact point for you.
For example, you could contact a Confidential Contact Person regarding the following topics:
The Confidential Contact Persons are meant to be a low-threshold, local person to contact. Therefore, they work on the level of the research institute, the Graduate School or the Faculty. The Confidential Contact Persons have a broad focus and the goal is to advise and/or refer you as good as possible in one conversation.
Confidential Advisors are certified members of the National Association of Confidential Advisors (Landelijke Vereniging van Vertrouwenspersonen) and focus specifically on undesirable behaviour or scientific integrity. Confidential advisors are appointed for all employees of Radboud University. A consultative appointment with a confidential advisor is also possible, but the focus will always be on undesirable behaviour or scientific integrity.
The roles of Confidential Contact Persons and Confidential Advisors are meant to complement each other, in order to offer an as complete as possible array of support for you as PhD candidate, postdoc or assistant professor.
FoA employees can also contact the FPTR confidential contact persons.
FPTR employees can also contact the FoA confidential contact persons.
The Nijmegen School of Management has not currently appointed confidential contact persons. You can contact the Doctoral School Coördinator with your questions.
You can find the Donders Institute confidential contact persons for research and social integrity on the Donders Institute website. There, you will also find information on when to contact them. For example, regarding your PhD trajectory, research integrity, or undesirable behaviour.
The Radboud Teachers Academy has not currently appointed confidential contact persons. You can reach out to the national Graduate School for Educational Sciences ICO (Interuniversity Centre for Educational Sciences).
Depending on your issue, there are many other sources of support available, such as HR, your supervisor, the PhD Coordinator, or campus wide facilities such as the campus psychologists or the occupational social workers. If you don’t know exactly whom to go to, feel free to contact a Confidential Contact Person for a consultative appointment.