Questions and Answers are organised in a tabular fashion. The questions act as titles of the columns. Recorded answers are text-based, nominal, and ordinal. The theme of the questions enable the assessment awareness of FAIR principles and data management practices for early career scientists (PhDs) in geography. Some questions were reused from related surveys with permission. No data was collected to identify the individual. Contact details for follow up interviews were removed from the questionnaire results prior to the upload of the dataset.