Report from the Project "Early Career Researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Theology: Attitudes and Behaviours Related to Scholarly Communications" Funded by the National Science Centre in Poland 2022/45/B/HS2/00041
Report from the Project "Early Career Researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Theology: Attitudes and Behaviours Related to Scholarly Communications" Funded by the National Science Centre in Poland 2022/45/B/HS2/00041

Summary/Abstract: The project aims to understand changing attitudes and behaviours in scholarly communication and professional life of Polish early career researchers beginning their scientific careers in the fields of art, humanities and theology. In particular, it concerns the attitudes and behaviours of young researchers related to searching and using scholarly information, citing, publishing, disseminating, reviewing and building reputation. This topic in relation to representatives of the three mentioned fields has not been addressed so far. The project also aims to determine whether the situation of young researchers is changing as a result of turbulent external circumstances. These external circumstances included: the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, advancing inflation, as well as changes caused by reforms of science and higher education in Poland. A new circumstance that emerged during the project was the development of generative artificial intelligence. Polish humanists, theologians and scientist-artists were included in the international and interdisciplinary analysis cycle Harbingers of change. The project also aims to compare young researchers from the three fields mentioned above with those from other fields: exact sciences, engineering, medicine, agriculture and social sciences, who were and continue to be respondents in interdisciplinary international projects: Harbingers_1, Harbingers_2 and Harbingers_3. The project used longitudinal in-depth interviews, consisting of two rounds of interviews - the first was conducted in the spring of 2023 and the second in early 2024. The respondents were twenty-five novice researchers from various disciplines in three fields: humanities, theology and arts. The transcription of the online interviews was completed by the interviewees via email correspondence.

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