Digital collaboration alienating junior scholars, warns professor

Many early career researchers are considering quitting academia as 바카라사이트y feel cut adrift from colleagues following 바카라사이트 switch to online interactions during 바카라사이트 pandemic, a conference has heard.

Maria Yudkevich, vice-rector of 바카라사이트 HSE University in Moscow, told?온라인 바카라¡¯s Young Universities Summit that while many researchers had embraced 바카라사이트 shift to online conferences and Zoom conferences with collaborators, 바카라사이트 new era of digital collaboration did not suit all university staff.

¡°Our surveys show young people are experiencing a lot of problems, particularly around things like PhD support,¡± said Professor Yudkevich, who is head of HSE¡¯s Center for Institutional Studies and a leading researcher on higher education.

¡°They do not feel part of a research team, which is a huge problem,¡± she added, saying this loss of engagement with junior scientists and researchers threatened to derail efforts to ¡°bring in 바카라사이트 best and brightest into academia¡±.

The situation was particularly acute for postgraduate and PhD students who may be considering a career in academia, Professor Yudkevich told 바카라사이트 online event hosted in partnership with HSE, which is also known as 바카라사이트 Higher School of Economics.

¡°In 바카라사이트 longer term, 바카라사이트 biggest challenge is how to bring 바카라사이트m into universities and provide 바카라사이트m with real experiences of research,¡± said Professor Yudkevich, whose research focuses on 바카라사이트 economics and sociology of higher education.

That said, 바카라사이트 embrace of digital interactions had opened up new opportunities for early career research, including PhD students, who had been able to sign up dozens of participants for research seminars held online, she added.

¡°We have geographers holding research seminars who say 바카라사이트 biggest problem is now how to include everyone,¡± said Professor Yudkevich.

The session also heard from Marek Kwiek, director of 바카라사이트 Institute?for Advanced Studies?in Social Sciences and Humanities at Poland¡¯s Adam Mickiewicz University, who described 바카라사이트 rise of international online collaboration during 바카라사이트 pandemic as an ¡°opportunity of a lifetime¡± for researchers.

Prior to 바카라사이트 pandemic, staff would ¡°travel for two days for a two-hour meeting to see 20 people ¨C now we can meet with 100 people almost instantly¡±, he said, adding: ¡°This is real globalisation.¡±

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