Launched in 2019, the Teaching Cultures Survey shines a spotlight on how university teaching is valued and rewarded in academic careers across the global higher education sector. All participating institutions have engaged in – or are planning for – systemic reform in how university teaching is evaluated, supported and/or rewarded in academic career pathways. The survey captures academics’ views on how university teaching is supported, valued and rewarded at their institution, enabling universities to track cultural change over time and benchmark their progress against global peers.

The TCS is built around a series of cross-sectional surveys, held to date in 2019, 2022, and 2025. It forms one element of the Advancing Teaching initiative, a global programme focused on improving the reward of university teaching.

28 universities from 13 countries and five continents have participated in the survey across its first three waves, including: Aalborg University (Denmark), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), DTU (Denmark), Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), IT:U (Austria), King’s College London (UK), KTH (Sweden), Leiden University (Netherlands), Maastricht University (Netherlands), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Chile), Radboud University (Netherlands), SOAS University of London (UK), TU Delft (Netherlands), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Malaysia), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), University of Auckland (New Zealand), University of British Columbia (Canada), University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Iceland (Iceland), University of Sydney (Australia), University of Twente (Netherlands), University College London (UCL, UK), UNSW (Australia), Utrecht University (Netherlands), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Wageningen University (Netherlands).