Building Research Capacity at Universities: Insights from Post-Soviet Countries

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Abbasov A., Fedyukin I., Klyagin A.

Under the general editorship: M. Chankseliani, Fedyukin I., Froumin I.

This edited volume represents a collective contribution to the current debates on developing university research capacity. The chapters in this volume offer empirical case studies from post-Soviet countries which share a common history, common policies and practices of higher education. These commonalities make the regional focus meaningful and analytically valid. At the same time, the case studies demonstrate divergence from the shared Soviet tradition and offer historical, sociological, and political analyses of how and in what ways universities in former Soviet countries internalised their research mission and developed the capacity to carry out this mission. This volume is the first of its kind to examine national and institutional resources, political will, and individual agency to understand how these influenced universities' motivation, expertise, and opportunities of undertaking research since the early 1990s, and how universities changed their structures and practices under these influences. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of education, sociology, political science, and economics.

Chapters

Separation Between Higher Education and Research in the USSR: Myth or Reality?

Fedyukin I., , in: Building Research Capacity at Universities: Insights from Post-Soviet Countries.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Ch. 2 P. 15–32.

This chapter explores the realities behind the oft-repeated notion that higher education and research were separated in the USSR. While the bulk of research was indeed performed outside higher education institutions (HEIs, in the state academies of sciences and applied research institutes), the idea that HEIs were only expected to teach was never endorsed as a ...

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Building Research Capacity at Universities: Imagining, Strategising, and Ordering

Chankseliani M., Fedyukin I., Froumin I., , in: Building Research Capacity at Universities: Insights from Post-Soviet Countries.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Ch. 16 P. 305–327.

The post-Soviet countries chose different paths in terms of the organisational integration of higher education and research. There exist research universities in countries where radical reforms have taken place and also in countries where research institutes have not been merged with universities. Across the diverse region, universities remain to be seen by students, their families, and the ...

Added: October 27, 2022

Keywords: education, Educational system of the former USSR, education in post-Soviet countries