Contemporary Polish Geography Through the Lens of a National Congress: Thematic Structure, Interdisciplinarity and Current Research Orientations

Przemysław Mroczek; Andrzej Jakubowski; Radosław Dobrowolski; Barbara Uljasz

doi:10.14746/quageo-2026-0011

Abstract

National scientific congresses provide community-defined, time-sensitive material for examining the thematic organisation of academic disciplines. This paper analyses contemporary academic geography in Poland through contributions presented at the Congress of Polish Geography 2025 (Lublin), treating the official programme and published abstracts as a structured empirical corpus. A multi-level analytical framework combining programme-based classification with qualitative thematic coding is used to identify dominant research domains, cross-cutting themes and patterns of integration. The results indicate a diversified yet internally coherent disciplinary structure in which interdisciplinarity is selective and organised around methodological and problem-oriented interfaces that help maintain thematic coherence.

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Contemporary Polish Geography Through the Lens of a National Congress: Thematic Structure, Interdisciplinarity and Current Research Orientations

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