The Polish Academic Profession: What We Know, What We Do Not Know, and What We Would Like to Know – from a European Comparative Perspective (original) (raw)

The paper studies academic beliefs and academic behaviors: how Polish academics work, what they think (about their work), in the context of a large-scale empirical comparative material: over 17,000 cases and over 500 interviews across Europe. There are four major comparative themes: (1) Internationalization in research and research productivity (Polish “internationalists” vs. Polish “locals”), (2) University governance (a powerful Ivory Tower university model prevailing in Poland; Polish universities as a professorially-coordinated “republic of scholars”). (3) The Polish research elite (highly productive academics: who they are, how they work?) (4) Intergenerational patterns of academic work – Polish academics under 40. What we know, what we do not know, and what we would like to know – about each theme. Within each theme – the data are examined in the context of 10 Western European comparator countries: Austria, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, S...