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‘The COVID-19 crisis is not the core problem’: experiences, challenges, and concerns of Irish academia during the pandemic

Kalpana Shankar, Dean Phelan, Venkata Ratnadeep Suri, Richard Watermeyer, Cathryn Knight Orcid Logo, Tom Crick Orcid Logo

Irish Educational Studies, Volume: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 169 - 175

Swansea University Authors: Cathryn Knight Orcid Logo, Tom Crick Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/03323315.2021.1932550

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This article, drawing on data from an international survey — distributed in the summer of 2020 — explores the experiences and concerns of academic staff (n=167) working in universities in Ireland and their perceptions of their institutions’ early response to the pandemic. Concerns related to transit...

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Published in: Irish Educational Studies
ISSN: 0332-3315 1747-4965
Published: Informa UK Limited 2021
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