Data Set
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The Impact of Russia's War on Ukrainian Academics
Data from the SCIENCE AT RISK Monitoring Report 2024
Version 1.0, published: Sept. 2, 2025.
Description
The data collection method is a comprehensive online not representative survey that was distributed to Ukrainian scholars in May-September 2024, designed to gather information on their experiences, challenges, and perceptions since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The survey consisted of 70 questions, divided in five blocks covering the following aspects:
Blocks 1 and 2 collect basic demographic information about respondents. Understanding the distribution of respondents by gender, age, academic discipline, and geographical location is crucial for analysing how different groups have been affected.
Block 3 examines the impact of the war on academic productivity and professional achievements, such as conference participation, publications, fellowships,
and research grants.
Block 4 collects information on the physical destruction and displacement experienced by academic institutions and individuals.
Block 5 focuses on the assistance provided by international organisations and universities. By identifying assistance received and unmet needs, this block aims to guide future aid efforts.
The survey focusses mainly on twelve regions: Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Rivne, Zaporizhzhya, Lviv, Zakarpattia, Vinnytsia, Sumy, IvanoFrankivsk. The SCIENCE AT RISK Emergency Office was able to offer small grants to scholars in each of these regions to involve them in the dissemination of the survey.
The choice of these regions allows us to assess the experiences of scientists who are directly confronted with the horrors of war in the regions near or on the front line, and to analyse the changes in academic life in the central or western regions, which are in the safe line but are becoming host regions for displaced academics.
By ensuring complete anonymity and refraining from collecting any personal information, we aimed to encourage participants to openly share their real thoughts
and problems.
The sample is not representative and contains 1.720 responses from Ukrainian scholars. The data includes a CSV file with the respondents’ answers.
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Keywords
Higher Education Academics Russian-Ukrainian War