During the course of the Recognition & Rewards programme, we conducted twice a ‘culture barometer’. The aim of this Recognition & Rewards culture barometer is to gain insight to what extent the ambitions of the programme and associated behaviour are recognised, perceived and shared by academics in policy and day-to-day actions.
2026
Broad support for Recognition & Rewards, but work still to be done
The second Culture Barometer shows that many academics support the programme’s ambitions, but see too little progress yet
In January 2026, Berenschot carried out the second measurement of the Recognition & Rewards Culture Barometer on behalf of the Recognition & Rewards programme. The Culture Barometer enables knowledge institutions to gauge whether the programme’s ambitions and associated behaviours are recognised, rewarded, and shared on the work floor. It also maps the extent to which the intended culture change is progressing.
The results of the second measurement are both encouraging and confronting. Encouraging, because there is broad support among academics for the ambitions of the Recognition & Rewards programme. Confronting, because academics have noticed too little of the policies that institutions have developed over the past two years.
Report, summary & interpretation
2024
In 2024 the first culture barometer was conducted. We developed an e-magazine to illustrate the results:
In this e-magazine you can also find the summary and interpretation of the results.
If you want to read the full rapport of the Recognition & Reward culture barometer 2024, you can download the PDF:
