Awanse naukowe w polskiej geografii transportu w latach 2001-2021
Scientists’ promotions in Polish transport geography in 2001-2021

Summary/Abstract: The first twenty years of the 21st century, especially its second decade, was a period of dynamic growth in the number of transport geographers PhD promotions. The situation with independent academics (in Polish scientific system habilitated doctors and professors) was much worse. There was no such strong dynamics of the development of new staff as in the case of completed PhD procedures. Only one of habilitated doctors promoted in the analysed period is currently working as an associate professor, next one has quit Polish science, but the others have successively obtained professorships. A strong spatial polarization of the places where promotion procedures were carried out was also visible. The PhD processes were carried out by 11 institutions, but nearly 4/5 of them took place before the scientific councils of six of them. At the same time, almost 1/3 of the promotion took place at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Jagiellonian University and the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IGSO PAS). Additionally all habilitation procedures in the field of transport geography were completed in IGSO PAS I. The article points out that the current age structure of researchers of the sub-discipline is quite favourable, while its distortion in terms of research degrees and titles is worrying, where the group of habilitated doctors is disturbingly small, which means that a significant distortion of the pyramid reflecting it is visible. In the future, this may result in problems of the succession of generations.

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