Background This case study is developed within the EUR R&R framework. The tool is an anonymised case study of one of EURs Schools that executed a bottom-up process for developing career paths. The case study provides inspiration, materials and reflective questions to guide you in developing your own process.

Purpose The data is about the process steps that some members of the academic and professional services staff of one of the EUR Schools undertook to develop diverse career paths.

Method The participants were one member of professional services staff and about 40 members of academic staff.

The data was collected in the period of January-December 2025, by a former member of the Recognition & Rewards team (Anna Smulders), by the means of being directly involved in developing and facilitating the process described in the Case Study, and being in continuous contact with the staff at the certain EUR School responsible for implementation of Recognition & Rewards

Results A detailed overview of the steps taken by a certain EUR School towards developing and implementing diverse career paths.

This entry is a three-files data package totaling 8.55 MB, containing files in .pdf and .txt formats. If you use this dataset, please cite: Recognition & Rewards. (2026). Developing Academic Career Paths: A Case Study (Version V1) [Data set]. DataverseNL. https://doi.org/10.34894/ZT5G7A