Researchers' perceptions of opportunities, motivation and challenges in post-pandemic STEM education.

In the present work we study the STEM researchers' plans, motivation, and opinions about the post-pandemic work and challenges. We gathered data from 34 STEM researchers in India, among them the 88% of the researchers agree that the pandemic has impacted their research work. The data was taken through online survey with both Likert-type and open-ended questions. The results show that 61.8% of the researchers have already planned their research activities for the post-pandemic times. Only 20.6% believe that they will have great opportunities, while 50% have no doubts/hesitation of doing research. 79.4% of the researchers believe that it would be arduous to perform researchers in the post-pandemic era. 24.2% are motivated to perform STEM researchers and 12.9% researchers are not motivated for the post-pandemic era. This paper also discusses in detail the perception of STEM researchers about the challenges in post-pandemic research works. The female STEM researchers were found to have less planning, more difficulty perception and more doubts about the post-pandemic researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]