REACT – Resilience and Adaptive Capability in Training: Higher Educational Institutions in Ukraine In Light of the Russian Invasion

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Project name: REACT – Resilience and Adaptive Capability in Training: Higher Educational Institutions in Ukraine In Light of the Russian Invasion
Project acronym: REACT
Call: SI Baltic Sea Neighbourhood Programme – special call for Ukraine, 2023
Topic: Support for PhD students and younger researchers

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Project duration: January, 2024 – December, 2024

Ukraine needs a competent cadre of young researchers who can use rapid ethnographic assessment methods (REAP)  to quickly gain information on relevant social issues, whereas its senior scholars are under double strain to continue their teaching while adapting to conditions of war. Our project aims to relieve that burden by providing young Ukrainian scholars with practical training in REAP, taking them through a short practical project to gain experience in the field, and aiding them with publications of the results afterwards.

Additionally, the data intended to be gathered as part of the project (what adaptations Ukrainian institutions had to make/challenges they faced in continued operations under conditions of wartime) could be directly useful to Ukrainian and Swedish institutions of higher education both – Ukraine for a more systematized review of what has worked so far, and Sweden for potential preparations for crisis scenarios.

The specific objectives of the project are:

• to conduct a teaching program/workshop that teaches rapid assessment methods of fieldwork and allows the researchers to test it out in a controlled environment and with feedback from more seasoned colleagues;
• To conduct a pilot study where young scholars could test out the data collection and analysis processes they learned under the guidance of senior colleagues;
• To mentor the young scholars in publishing in Western journals by providing guidance on orientation