“I Am Stronger Now, I Know I Can Do So Much”. Women Academics in Conditions of Forced Migration during the Russian-Ukrainian War.

The article aims to identify growth points in the gender self-consciousness of Ukrainian women academics in forced migration caused by the Russian-Ukrainian war, particularly with regard to their professional, social and personal lives. The source base isa set of semi-structured interviews conducted as part of the oral history project “Moving West”, which explores survival and career-building strategies among Ukrainian humanities scholars from the first (2014) and second (2022) waves of war-related migration. The article argues that the impetus for new practices of gender self-identity is given not only by changes in the social experience of women academics, who have been key beneficiaries of European institutional efforts to support the Ukrainian academia, but also by a rethinking of moral obligations in response to external challenges and internal value conflicts. The authors suggest that these developments may lead to a shift from quantitative to qualitative feminisation in the Ukrainian academic community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]