WP4 concerns young people‟s priorities and choices regarding STM education and careers. The WP has two main components, one with focus on undergraduate choice and one with focus on postgraduate choices within STM. The principal objectives will be to:

• apply theories of youth‟s identity formation in late modern societies, together with models of educational choice, to interpret empirical data collected in IRIS with the aim of identifying important influence factors on (female) undergraduate students‟ educational choice

• study the choice of research topic of female and male PhD students within STM to identify similarities and differences in women‟s and men‟s choice patterns.

WP4 feeds theoretical perspectives and a review of previous findings into the IRIS Q (WP2), and analyses IRIS Q data in view of priorities and educational and research choices. In this WP, there is also a quantitative study of the fields of research chosen by female and male students, respectively, for their PhD (data to be provided by consortium).

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