Open AccessDread in Academia – how COVID-19 affects science and scientists
Author(s) -
Marta Kowal,
Piotr Sorokowski,
Agnieszka Sorokowska,
Izabela Lebuda,
Agata Groyecka-Bernard,
Michał Białek,
Kaja Kowalska,
Lidia Wojtycka,
Alicja M. Olszewska,
Maciej Karwowski
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
anthropological review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.262
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2083-4594
pISSN - 1898-6773
DOI - 10.2478/anre-2020-0028
Subject(s) - covid-19 , quarter (canadian coin) , pandemic , work (physics) , psychology , political science , order (exchange) , public relations , history , medicine , business , engineering , virology , disease , pathology , mechanical engineering , archaeology , finance , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
In order to gain an insight into scholars’ concerns emerging from the COVID-19 crisis, we asked scientists from all over the world about their attitudes and predictions regarding the repercussions of this current crisis on academia. Our data showed that the academic world was placed in an unprecedented situation. Results further showed that everybody worked on-line, conducting studies was impossible or highly impeded, and lab work was difficult. Almost a quarter of all scientists participating in our survey were anxious about their scientific employment, and over 25% expected serious financial losses as a consequence of the pandemic. Moreover, we identified sex differences regarding the severity of the COVID-19 impact in the majority of questions. We inferred from this that women perceived to be in a worse situation than men.