Presentations by Streams

The full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine has fundamental consequences for conducting empirical research on the whole region. Access to the field is possible only to a limited extent, scientific cooperation is restricted, the validity of public opinion polls is questioned, terminologies and concepts need revision, and methods have to be adjusted, to name but a few challenges. This has severe consequences for the quality of research data, and thus, scientific work and knowledge production.
The participants of this panel address the (new) problems related to data quality: from gaining access to potential respondents, to comparability of data before and after the Russian invasion, or validity of public opinion polls under circumstances of large migration waves (as in Ukraine) or increasing repression of free thought (as in Russia).
As a potential solution, that combines a research data repository specifically designed for area studies on Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, with a discussion platform that brings together scholars that discuss such issues of research data quality, Discuss Data (www.discuss-data.net) will be presented in this panel.

Panelists:

Marnie Howlett, University of Oxford:
"Methods vs. Ethics When Researching War"

Eduard Klein, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen:
“The potential of Discuss Data for research data management and discussion platform for data quality”

Volodymyr Paniotto, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology:
“Methods for data quality assessment in surveys during the war in Ukraine and Russia”

Michael Rochlitz, University of Oxford:
"Conducting Public Opinion Survey in Russia: Data Quality, Practical Issues and Examples of Recent Research"