Describe impact of situation caused by pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19 on your Academic and Research activities.
Explain your action in a way to stay focused on Science and Preparing/Writhing/Publishing research.
The gender gap: I do have to attend my child needs, specially related with the remote school activities plus cooking and cleaning the house. All these activities at the same time oh having a full time job as an specialist in higher education. Trying to get focus and reading for a while is such a goal!
Interesting question.
A very interesting situation. Studies with people are limited and impossible. On the other hand, there may be a lot of review studies or laboratory studies published. The students, myself included are maybe the most affected because they are suspended for a moment in their education and left for self-education.
We have been applying distance learning and conducting online lectures/labs.
Slides are offered, and there are systems in which teachers and students can have Q&A sessions. Exams will probably be designed as home exams. It seems to run smoothly.
due to quarantine, we had to stop laboratory tests. The team works 2 days a week, the rest of the days it is at home. You may have to refuse to work in the laboratory at all. We work on the analysis of research results and write scientific articles. We are developing new projects. What are you doing?
In connection with the development of the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic in the field of academic activity, most or all of the didactic classes are conducted remotely via e-learning. In addition, as part of interdisciplinary research topics, I will conduct research on the impact of the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic on the global economy and on the economy of the European Union and my country. I am currently analyzing the potential scale of a possible recession of the global economy and comparing the current, beginning economic crisis to the global financial crisis of autumn 2008, also one of the largest global crises that I previously researched and described in my publications available on the RG portal. I invite you to scientific cooperation.
Best wishes.
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Thank you all for answers...
What do you think on effect of pandemic on our publication process?
Dragan
Not all countries can manage for online teaching so education can be affected in countries with already political conflicts
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I am currently busy researching on the impact of covid-19 on education. Challenges are there, like access to internet as library are closed. Technology in my country is big challenges. Teachers are trying to do online classes but student have no access to internet as most have moved to rural area where there is no electricity either. i think this pandemic will have a positive impact on education and economy.however , at same time , it will reshape education systems. i think most schools and universities will change their strategy and adopt to innovation and elearning
The policy of stay at home may give us more time to work on our researchs but we need also to work from home as online education of under and postgraduate students
I think that the clinical sessions will be affected by this situation
E learning (webinar, whatspp, Zoom, etc) is probably the way forward, but limited by internet availability (band width). Classical bedside clinics are irreplaceable, but out of place now. Simulation would be the answer for this, but planning a good simulation with limited resources is a challenge.
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We typically work from home; exams are done over the internet, and PhD defences also. It has so far run smoothly, as far as I have heard.
It has been very challenging. One of my major projects which took two years for Ethical Approval is now on hold, As its an environmental project a lot of adaptations to the present status of our country may impact real time changes in the immediate potential normalized period
A lot of changes especially looking at indigenous people in terms of education. Lack of access to technology. The role of culture etc.
the under and postgraduate education in medical colleges is interrupted but we are trying to connect with them by all means to make it possible to complete the year as lectures and clinical training.
for researches, most of researchers turn to issues of COVID 19 as it is usually will be published rapidly even if they are just case reports or case series.
the hospitals as health services are in a difficult situations and may be inappropriate to conduct studies
All said well whether things are still under control. However, those involving collecting primary data from the communities and the public are likely to be worst hit. Potential respondents may now shun researchers or field assistants in the name of safety and health concerns. Using technology and online tools don't work with the public. They may not even have the simplest gadgets to go with it, and how do we get in touch with them?
It's had a big impact on the balance of my teaching and scholarship. Converting courses that had been face to face to online delivery has been a challenge. I had one research project put on hold because it involved observations in elementary classrooms and schools are closed for the rest of the school year.
Research laboratory staff should be reduced to only those performing critical maintenance of the laboratory. These roles are restricted to the care of research animals and maintaining liquid nitrogen tanks. Individual departments, centers, and divisions should each designate one individual to receive all deliveries.
There is a temporary halt to some human subjects research studies and study procedures involving in-person interactions.
Travelling abroad for research collaboration meetings and research lab visits is stalled for now. This is being mitigated through intermediation of ICT.
What is the impact of COVID-19 on your Research/Academic activities?
My immediate response to the COVID-19 crisis was one of disbelief, followed by a conscious effort to re-activate my imagination and creativity as ways to protect life itself.
Describe the impact of the situation caused by the pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19 on your Academic and Research activities.
In similar ways that the COVID-19 lockdown is placing pressure on the global economy, the closure of HED institutions forced lecturers and students to adapt to the online environment with immediate effect. Enhanced and blended learning-strategies, as well as transdisciplinary knowledge production, have been identified as possible benefits. But there are challenges. Unequal access to the internet and affordable data, along with inefficient broadband services and an increasing financial crisis, prevent equal online education opportunities for post-school youth.
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200406094611664
https://mg.co.za/article/2020-04-19-south-africas-digital-divide-detrimental-to-the-youth/
Explain your action in a way to stay focused on Science and Preparing/Writhing/Publishing research.
I am spending valuable lockdown time to re-think the purpose of my research, to question the relevance of my study-focus on mind-development through short film production, and to update my literature review. An opinion piece, published in 2012 by Iain Alexander, predicted that short films would become the most essential communication tool to promote cultural values, business ethics, marketing campaigns, and ideologies among others. To this existing list, I add COVID-19 short films as a new category-contribution. The current proliferation of informative and instructional short films about the Coronavirus by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to an increasing online audience, confirms Alexander's prediction. This new way of thinking and doing is a model for transformed practices.
https://filmindustry.network/short-films-become-most-important-communication-tool/14005
Now I am more interested in studying future scenarios of university education
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Practical based education like TVET has to be creative in their teaching. Resource limited students have to be taught as distance learning and not e-learning. Senior staff that resisted on digital platform now has to adopt it. Most universities research has limited impact on the disease management as they are not up to date with the stringent medical requirements available to be useful in public health management.
It has many impacts on research. If research is field based or institution based or both, it affected the research. In one case, it affects the data collection at the fields, at research institute, it shifts the focus of researchers, it shifts the human powers, it shifts the funds, and the laboratory spaces are used for COVID-19. thus, over all, it affected my research works.
Well said Hussen.You have covered a wider scope of my views on conducting field research.
Dear Colleagues,
I am also curious about the productivity of academicians during the pandemic. How should we measure productivity, though?
The number of manuscripts that is submitted during this period? (Some of them might be started a long time ago before the pandemic and done during this time.). The number of course materials that might be there before?
The number of new ideas related to (or not) the pandemic?
The number of the manuscript you reviewed?
The number of emails sent by the students that you replied?
The thing is being an academician is more comfortable since it allows you to work from home and to do your job and get paid (even some universities cut the extra teaching payments, in my country). Honestly, thinking people who have to work outside made me focus on what I am doing and doing in the best way. Therefore, I find myself productive these days; I submitted two papers, reviewed 3 papers, started new two studies, mentored my grad students more than usual, extended the lecture notes and prepared lots of examples with their answers, and read more outside of my field.
I think that my approach to this question is more emotional.
Thanks.
Şenay A.
The gender gap: I do have to attend my child needs, specially related with the remote school activities plus cooking and cleaning the house. All these activities at the same time oh having a full time job as an specialist in higher education. Trying to get focus and reading for a while is such a goal!
The pandemic has interrupted my empirical studies, I am considering using secondary data to supplement the primary data I have collected to complete the study. Researchers who are currently investigating a phenomenon that requires primary data may want to wait a little longer for the pandemic spreading rate to decline, before they can resume.
Since we are going through this pandemic, do you have any new ideas how to improve our academic/scientific activities in a case of another situation like this?
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The way forward is to ensure web based / online content on a friendly platform (zoom, webex, etc) to provide exchange of information / discussion.
Dragan Marinkovic That's a very interesting question. It terms of research, it didn't affect me much since we are fortunate enough to have internet which is virtually limitless knowledge base. Therefore, I think this was the perfect time to conduct a nice systematic review or meta analysis or both. In case of a need for a meeting, we can use platforms such as Skype or Zoom and if we want conduct a qualtiative study, Google Docs. can be used to obtain data. So, there a plenty of options. It's just a matter of will and motivation.
Dragan Marinkovic This was a great time to study and expand our knowledge. Also as my college, Nemanja Lakicevic mentioned there are a lot of platforms for online meetings. The only flaw was an impossibility for testing and perform studies that involved human participants. This situation teaches us how to adapt to new situations and environments, and this will be a very valuable lesson for the future.
Covid-19 affected a lot to our research and academic activities. Seminars , conferences are totally stalled where exchange of ideas on research was of, great benefit. Though books and on line activities at home,keeping us busy enriching our knowledge on many academic aspects, its true that many students in remote rural areas do not have accessibility to on line teaching-learning system. Feeling really bad for them. Examination is postponed. Community study is on hold.
In spite of all these we are trying to get the best out of the worst situation with all positivism.
In the face of all education systems, one task is to overcome the learning crisis that we are currently witnessing and address the pandemic that we all face. The challenge today is to reduce the negative effects of this pandemic and take advantage of this experience to return to a faster pace of learning improvement.
University research typically involves postdoctoral researchers (postdocs), graduate students, and sometimes undergraduate students in addition to faculty members. Even if the nature of a particular research project qualifies it to continue despite COVID-19, many universities are limiting the continued participation of postdocs and students. Cancelled or suspended research may be of particular concern to these groups. Continuing to work remotely may also be more challenging for students, postdocs, and early-career faculty who have families, as their children are more likely to be young than those of more senior researchers.Failing to complete a project on time may delay the completion of a degree or make it difficult to demonstrate research success when applying for a job or seeking tenure.
Cancelled conferences are also a particular concern for postdocs, students, and other early-career researchers, who often rely on conferences to meet more senior scientists, present their work, and find jobs. In some circumstances, there may be uncertainty about continuity of pay for students employed as research assistants or teaching assistants.
Because there are disparities between disciplines in the extent to which research can continue while working remotely, students and postdocs in different disciplines may find disparities in how their careers are affected. Disparities may also arise between students and postdocs whose experiments can be suspended and restarted and those whose experiments must simply be abandoned and begun afresh.
To the extent that research disruptions, delayed graduation, or difficulty obtaining in-field employment discourage students and early-career researchers from continuing in their field of research, those outcomes could create challenges for the future science and engineering workforce.
Well, COVID-19 has had changed the way that we are used to accomplish our duties, so apart from writing up an already done work, the only available researching activity could be a review paper that summarize the recent work in a particular field of study.
Everything is online. Files and books are digitalised, there is no/less human interaction. Which can affect quality of work. Also targeting audience is getting less interested in helping research.
M.Tetvadze
Thank you for answer Mamia Tetvadze Firas A. Al-Lolage Bita Jamshidi
It would be also interesting to see "power" of COVID-19 on publication rates and quality of research in different field. Also I would like to point out fact that many discipline will have hyper-production.
Dragan Marinkovic I am marketer. And Covid situation is forcing companies to use more and more internet advertising. Traditional marketing such as TV ads are getting more and more attention. But i think internet is getting in every aspect of every field.
M.Tetvadze
Due to outbreak of COVID 19 pandemic, research and academic activities in universities are affected to a great extent. As semester activities are hampered and examinations remain uncertain, so semester is delayed. As classes are taken online, such classes have shown retention of information and not all students have access to such technology. On line also affects examinations, as to assessing students without on-site examinations. Postgraduate researchers are the worst sufferers, particularly the science based researchers, in the sense that, here the research undertaken are either laboratory or field oriented and are based on analytical aspects.
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Article The Effects of COVID-19 on Academic Activities and Surgical ...
This scarry pandemic has had devastating effects on research as the postgraduate students in medical sciences should be busy in the laboratories investigating about COVID 19 alternative diagnostics and possible remedies are sitting at home. The proposals have been written and reviewed by supervisors through online communications and awaiting ethical approval. The big question is when will the reserchers start with data extraction and conduct research?
The psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 cannot be overemphasized especially on the secondary school students- epileptic power supply in some developing countries of the world, unstable internet services, unavailability of e-learning gadgets among others happen to be major constraints to the effectiveness of e-learning during the lockdown.
Also Internet advertising and Digital Marketing is BOOMING! its bigger than ever. It gives many new possibilities for researchers to analyze online consumers behavior.
M.Tetvadze
I was a the point to leave for my field research to another country for a couple of months. Now, everything seems cancelled, so I am unable to do my field research on location which was quite essential, because I want to measure people's interaction on public space and place attachment. Would it be proper to change the methodology of my research in order to do my research on distance? Or better: is it ethical to do a phd research on distance about a location you are unable to visit?
It is possible for your supervisor to partner or twin with the institution in the country you planned to visit. The supervisor can also get a researcher in your field of study appointed as an external co-supervisor through your postgraduate office. In that way you can share information.
Since on-campus teaching and learning have been drastically reduced, and time for moving around to perform various activities has been largely cut by the pandemic, there is more time for academic writing. Correspondingly, research for academic publication can be expected to increase, and numbers of publications would most likely go up substantially.
Let us look at the positive side of the pandemic to researhers and academics, that is the opportunity to write papers and publish. There is a need share findings on research about the infectious diseases, which might have been impacted by the focus on the current epidemic.
Tibello Maguga I agree with you opinion! We need to take the best from this situation and to look on prospective way!
Thank you for contribution
Many researches have been canceled at the present time, and we are waiting for the problem of Coronavirus to end.
Dragan Marinkovic
COVID-19 is a global crisis, it affects all activities including sports and academia. The lecturing activities in the four walls of the class has been suspended indefinitely and painfully most students are struggling to cope with online teaching and learning. Research activities are not left out of the scourge posed by COVID-19. Most of the laboratories have been closed and few are opened with a limited number of researchers in order to reduce the spread of the virus.
However, this is not the time to fold our arms but the best time for the manuscripts writing for those of us who have sufficient data for publication and those of us who don't have sufficient data yet, this is the best time to collaborate with others for review papers either on COVID-19 and other exciting areas.
Tülay Zıvalı Turhan: You can change the methodology of your research from field-based survey to another. If the research population is literate with internet access, you can go for online survey. Alternatively, if the population is not literate enough, check whether they have access to telephone. If 'yes', then you can adopt "telephone interview". The only thing you will need to do is get field assistant from the communities with telephones, through the field assistant you can interview other respondents via telephone and use the data for your Phd. It's a valid method of data collection for research worldwide.
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Unfortunately I changed my methodology indeed, because it seems that I cannot go soon. I will conduct a part of the research in collabration with a local research institute. I was looking forward for my stay there, but nothing to do really.
We cannot go to schools and conduct surveys, we reach participants online.
COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on many sector of the economy including the education sector where I belong. Followed the locked down, many institutions rely on e-learning, whatsup, Google apps, Piazza and other forms of social media for teaching and learning. As an instructor for four university courses teaching online is a big challenge because of teaching from home with kids around asking for help with their own assignments, or asking for food and other necessities.
Tibello and Dragan, view this as a time when one can get a lot of writing done. The assumption is that the work environment in the COVID-19 period in conducive. For many female scientists, especially those with young children (infants to school-going age) this period has amplified their roles in the home. Nannies have had to stop commuting for everyone's safety and school-age children have to be home-schooled. Also, many female medical doctor research scientists are not so senior that they have real control over their schedules (internationally leadership of health and academic institutions is predominantly male) which has meant many have taken on the roe of essential medical providers. Translates into long work hours in the hospital and when home, bearing the brunt to the domestic needs.
Research has shown exclusion of women from COVID-19 papers and a reduction in publications in this period.
It is negatively affecting all aspects of our lives. In research, we cant do anything as we are with our kids at home, we have become their teachers at home and at the same time work from home. It has affected me badly
As schools are closed, we have to do our research online especially in the field of education. We apply scales and surveys remotely.
Paradoxically, we are having more interactions. Remote interactions, although previously possible, were not widely used. Since this ended up being the only option at the moment, it has enabled new articulations that have proved to be fruitful. We have already held some meetings to discuss joint writing of articles. But also thinking about proposing collaborative research projects.
Field Visit have been paralyzed. You can have look on the attached articles
With closure of educational institutions and maintaining approved protocols for slowing down the spread of COVID 19 research and academic activities are hampered greatly. In post graduate levels, especially for biological science based research, it is difficult to collect data from the field and analyze it in the laboratory when the educational institutes have been shut down. Hence, field research and data collection will come to a halt. As such, long term research studies will be facing in disruption of data collection and analysis.
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What is the impact of COVID-19 on your Research/Academic activities?
It powerfully impacts on my campus life. I am a freshman in magister university majoring in mathematics education which is in the first semester.
(I have read almost all responds of this question and I can relate them).
The online learning of my classes is supported by Google classroom, WhatsApp Group, Zoom, Google meet, Remote learning Website from University. In the Beginning, the learning was chaos, students were only given online assignments without any explanation, refferences, and feedback. However, it run for about two weeks, then the online learning was gradually stable. My personal opinion about online learning during quarantine is more challenging than face to face learning. It can be said that it’s more “effective” for mathematics students, we are challenged to learn every part of the subject individually. That’s study, the process is real than face to face.
Describe impact of situation caused by pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19 on your Academic and Research activities.
Beside the campus life, it also impacts to my thesis research, it is hard to collect primary data. supervising is online which is less efficient and effective. Public library is temporary closed, so I just utilize the articles and e-books provided in online library, google books, etc.
Explain your action in a way to stay focused on Science and Preparing/Writhing/Publishing research.
I try to deal with the condition, my supervisor suggests me to use variables that are able to be collected, validated, analized during the transition of Covid-19, conduct the research in institutions that allow online-field research, or in institutions that have fulfilled a health safety protocol for Covid-19.
I was an Agriculture Intern at Prime Minister Agriculture Modernisation Project. My research was on testing coffee quality of different altitudes but due to lockdown in absence of public transport I could not go to the lab for the test and the research was obstructed !!! This is only a representative problem. Many are facing such problems !!!
What is the influence of Covid-19 lockdown in their academic life according to university students
All educational institutions are closed. The mode of learning is through online. The researchers also find it difficult for their data collection, and to proceed their research further smoother. Frankly speaking the education system has affected so badly. The students are in an uncertain situation. They face lot of issues in online learning and also the faculty to conduct online classes. This is a time which this generation has not experienced and its really tough to overcome the situation. The drop out rates are increasing among students. Most of them are not well equipped with sufficient gadgets and enough data.
Students really miss their campus life and nobody is sure when the situation turns normal.
Be positive and patient and to deal the situation with more care for self and others. Always try to be engaged to avoid negative thoughts.
Dear Dr. Dragan Marinkovic ,
This article is very important for you:
Article The Effects of COVID-19 on Academic Activities and Surgical ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is first and foremost a health crisis. Many countries have (rightly) decided to close schools, colleges and universities. The crisis crystallises the dilemma policymakers are facing between closing schools (reducing contact and saving lives) and keeping them open (allowing workers to work and maintaining the economy). The severe short-term disruption is felt by many families around the world: home schooling is not only a massive shock to parents’ productivity, but also to children’s social life and learning. Teaching is moving online, on an untested and unprecedented scale. Student assessments are also moving online, with a lot of trial and error and uncertainty for everyone.
I aggree that everything has been done by all the contries to prevent the transmission of the COVID 19 virus and prepare the health systems for the inevitable peaks. But I think there is still more that needs to be done to identify and target the sites where the virus is spreading in communities, schools and in hospitals among the health care workers at risk despite PPE kits. Preventive measures need to be put in place to contain this deadly virus. More research is still needed about the pathogenesis of SARS Cov 2 virus.
In Bangladesh all the academic activities has been stopped for more than 3 months and nobody known when everything will be ok. Student are having a year loss and educational institutions are now in deep economic crisis.
Both my research and academic activities have been hampered greatly by COVID-19. As a teacher of Biological Science, for research purposes I and my students have to go out to the field for collection of data and analyze them in the laboratory. All my academic activities have ceased due to lock down and my undergraduate and postgraduate online classes taken are not up to my satisfaction.
Dear Dragan Marinkovic , I think it is unlikely to have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The impacts are different, at the University the hours of work increased because it was and has been necessary many hours of work to carry out a transition from the teaching activities that were planned to be carried out in person and needed to be adapted to carry out online. As well as the time has also increased to try to support students with difficulties in setting up online teaching, in the host institutions. but also research activities, because in the area of education, schools are also closed and students and teachers in their homes are also overloaded and stressed, therefore it is not possible to conduct field research and much attention is needed to avoid creating stress with the people in isolation even to answer questionnaires and interviews online. On the other hand, new possibilities for online cooperation with researchers from different countries and expansion of the academic network have been possible.
I had submitted my thesis for correction on February end. The correction process got severely delayed due to lockdown measures and they have only now started the correction process.
I have both positive and negative experiences on the positive part to start the situation increased my publication capacities because of the lockdown. I managed to finish several articles, however, the articles are not prioritized by journals because they are not related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, my capacity to pay for Article Processing Charges is gradually deteriorating as days go on diminished due to limited movement.
Having a young child no longer in daycare has been the biggest impediment to my scholarly work during the pandemic. I will be interested to see the differential impact of the pandemic on the careers of those with and without children in the coming years.
Research is currently skewed towards find solutions for COVID-19. Funding institutions may tend to feel obligated to finance research that is related to COVID-19 and its effect. COVID-19 protocols have also done a blow to research problems that were ongoing. Some research designs may not work with some of the protocols.
The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (Covid-19 disease) pandemic on my research and academic efforts is very large. From March 2020 I have been conducting classes only remotely via the Internet, in the e-learning formula. I conduct research on the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic on the economy. I participate in conferences, meetings of the chair and others remotely in the videoconference formula. I analyze the applied systemic instruments and programs for activating entrepreneurship, which are an important element of the currently active, anti-crisis, interventionist economic policies, including, inter alia, the fiscal policy of the Ministry of Finance, the budget policy of the Ministry of the Treasury, the monetary policy of central banking, etc., and the analysis of the effectiveness of the applied instruments and programs for activating entrepreneurship taking into account the costs incurred by the public finance system, the increase in public debt, the budget deficit due to the improvement of entrepreneurship, i.e. the number of economic entities which, thanks to the use of specific systemic instruments of state aid, did not declare bankruptcy, maintained employment and began to recover from financial problems and increase turnover on core business. This type of analysis can be carried out in terms of microeconomics on the example of selected economic entities, financial institutions, companies from the SME sector and / or corporations, in terms of sectors, i.e. mesoeconomics, and in terms of the entire national economy, i.e. in the macroeconomic scale. I investigate the impact of legally sanctioned restrictions on specific epidemiological and sanitary safety instruments (home quarantine, wearing protective masks outside the home, temporarily closed companies, service establishments, cultural and public institutions, closed schools, kindergartens and universities, servicing citizens only remotely via the Internet via the Internet) specific companies and institutions etc.) on economic processes, on the issue of the economic situation. I am examining the impact of the applied anti-crisis programs supporting economic entities from public funds of the state, i.e. Anti-crisis shields on socio-economic processes, the scale of the slow pace of unemployment growth, economic costs in the form of an increase in inflation and public debt in the public finance system of the state.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
First of all thanks for the article. Secondly, I agree with what you mentioned. However, there are some advantages for the students such as that now the student can defend his PhD online, specially for those who comes from abroad.
Covid-19 has opened new frontiers of knowledge. Some educators were scheptical of online education which is a new normal now. This has opened new areas of research. Open research practices are picking momentum. There is an increased use of Google form and other softwares to generate questionnaires in countries that have been behind technologically.
The good:
1. There is proliferation of innovative ideas in Ethiopia. Example, robotic technologies, dispensers, hand sanitizers, masks, clinical trials, etc. Social innovations based on traditional practices, such as sharing of resources.
2. Improved working relationship between policy makers and academicians.
3. More good will among partner institutions, including global partners.
4. Some changes in national rules and funding opportunities that facilitate research.
5. Improved virtual training platforms.
The less good
1. Field work has been suspended in most institutions that I know.
2. Zoom meeting 'fatigue' and 'stress' is common among colleagues.
3. Delays in ethics and regulatory reviews of non-covid studies, with anticipatory reluctance to submit such non-covid studies and clinical trials.
4. Student and faculty exchanges are impacted severely.
5. Overall, higher burden of work but slow delivery.
Would like to take this opportunity thank our international partners and funders (E.g., NIHR, EDCTP, World Bank, NIH) who have shown flexibility and continued their close working relationships.
Dear Professor Abebaw Fekadu thank you so much for clearly putting the detail impacts (both good and less good) of COVID-19 on researches in our country, Ethiopia.
Dragan Marinkovic
Hello Professor.
Since the onset of COVID-19, the following changes have come in my research/ academic activities.
1. I am dealing with my students online only.
2. My research has become more dependent on secondary data. Now it is difficult to go out and collect primary data. So I am reviewing literature, developing methodologies, protocols etc.
3. Pursuing basic research is very costly nowadays. So I am pursuing mostly refining research. I am trying to refine the level of existing knowledge on some topics.
4. My students are themselves collecting the data from the internet. I am just guiding them on which data to keep and which to not use. So I am less of a guide these days. Now I am playing the role of a decision maker regarding selection of data.
In order to keep my focus on research/ academic activities, I am not taking long and big targets. I am making small daily targets. More importantly, I am doing small things with great love. I am not thinking about results. I am just concentrating on maintaining the flow, even if that means some times going at a snail's pace. I am trying to keep in touch with researchers. Whenever I am dealing with a researcher, I am trying to motivate her/ him because I have discovered that motivating others is the best and least costly way to keep myself motivated.
Thank you.
Best regards.
Anamitra.
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Dragan Marinkovic Got more time than ever before for much academic reading....but it impacted practical field of research heavily.
During this COVID-19 pandemic, as my educational institution is closed I can not go to my the field for collecting data, nor can I go to the lab for doing research work or analyzing the data. Hence, my research activities have been hindered greatly. All I can do, staying at home, is write up some research papers of previous research works and get those published.
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