Factors Influencing Scientific Activity of University Faculty Members in Peaceful Pre-COVID-19, COVID-19, and War Periods

• Authors: Anastasiia Popova , Yevheniia Lyndina , Pylyp Popov

Title variants

PL

Czynniki wpływające na aktywność naukową nauczycieli uczelni w czasach pokojowych przed COVID-19, podczas COVID-19 i w czasie wojny

Abstracts

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 Artykuł analizuje działalność naukową nauczycieli akademickich na przestrzeni ostatnich pięciu lat w kontekście trzech okresów: przed COVID-2019, w czasie COVID-2019 oraz w czasie wojny na Ukrainie. Badanie przeprowadzono wśród 26 nauczycieli akademickich Państwowego Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Berdiańsku, który jest czasowo przesiedlony w związku z okupacją miasta Berdiańsk. Z uzyskanych danych wynika, że najbardziej efektywnym okresem aktywności naukowej w ciągu ostatnich pięciu lat był rok 2021, a konkretnie drugi rok COVID-2019. Analizie poddano czynniki utrudniające ten proces w czasie pokoju, w tym nadmierne obciążenie pracą organizacyjną i metodyczną, a w czasie wojny wyczerpanie emocjonalne wywołane wojną. Wyniki wskazują, że najbardziej aktywni w zakresie działalności naukowej są młodzi nauczyciele akademiccy ze stażem poniżej 10 lat, która nie uległa zmianie, a nawet miała tendencję wzrostową, pomimo obiektywnych okoliczności, które dotknęły bardziej doświadczonych kolegów. Niepokojąca dynamika czynników utrudniających aktywność naukową nauczycieli akademickich zarówno w czasie pokoju, jak i wojny wskazuje na potrzebę przeglądu strategii dla nauczycieli akademickich na poziomie krajowym i uniwersyteckim.

EN

The article analyzes the scientific activity of university faculty members over the past five years in the context of three periods: before COVID-2019, during COVID-2019, and during the war in Ukraine. The study was conducted among 26 university faculty members of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, which is temporarily relocated due to the occupation of the city of Berdyansk. The results shows that the most effective period of scientific activity over the past five years was the period of 2021, specifically the second year of COVID-2019. The factors that hindered this process during peacetime were analyzed, including excessive workload with organizational and methodological work, and during wartime, emotional exhaustion due to war. The results demonstrate that young university faculty members with less than 10 years of experience are the most active in the field of scientific activity, which did not change and even tended to increase, despite the objective circumstances that affected more experienced colleagues. The alarming dynamics of factors that hinder the scientific activity of university faculty members both in peacetime and in wartime indicate the need to review strategies for university faculty members at the national and university levels.

Keywords

EN

scientific activity; Covid-2019; war in Ukraine; university faculty member; university

PL

działalność naukowa; Covid-2019; wojna na Ukrainie; nauczyciele akademiccy; uniwersytet

UK

наукова діяльність; COVID 19; війна в Україні; викладач університету; університет

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio J – Paedagogia-Psychologia
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 53-64

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Anastasiia Popova

• Berdyansk State Pedagogical University Faculty of Preschool, Special and Social Education

author

Yevheniia Lyndina

• Berdyansk State Pedagogical University Faculty of Preschool, Special and Social Education

author

Pylyp Popov

• Berdyansk State Pedagogical University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/j.2023.36.3.53-64

Biblioteka Nauki

34111838