The CPPS Team have completed the largest survey of the Polish academic profession ever!
65,300 ivitations were sent out, and almost 14,000 questionnaires were received. The response rate was 20,20%.
The academic profession in Poland was last studied in detail, systemically and on a large scale empirically a decade ago – before the long process of reforming Polish universities began, which continues to this day.
This research was carried out in 2009-2012 by the same Team under the direction of Professor Marek Kwiek, PhD, Director of the Center for Public Policy Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Polish academic profession do not work scientifically in a vacuum – the surrounding institutional and economic reality is radically changing, the opportunities to practice science at the highest world level are growing, especially in selected disciplines and centers. Opportunities are growing – but so are demands on the part of universities and requirements in promotion procedures and procedures for subsequent degrees and titles; the biggest challenge for universities is the evaluation of scientific achievements and the institutional staff evaluation procedures modeled on it.
Knowledge of the daily functioning of scientists in the environment of students and research laboratories, their work mode, beliefs about science, ways of publishing and publication strategies, combining the mission of education with the mission of research, the changing distribution of academic work time, the level of involvement in various types of university activity (including involvement in administrative work, project work, contacts with the economic and social spheres) – remains only anecdotal knowledge.
Scientists and science policy makers know as much as they hear or learn from residual data, most often at the level of individual universities.
Our survey goes far beyond the scope of the issues addressed and the reach of the staff, beyond the first survey in 2010, which covered only the university sector and whose sample size was 43,000 scientists.
