The art of scientific research: the student scientific group “Musician-Scientist” reports on its work

Supporting the research direction, the “Musician-Scientist” group, which operates at the Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching Artistic Disciplines, in 2025 united first and second level higher education students in joint scientific activities within the framework of studying contemporary problems in the field of art.

The achievements of the group’s participants and leaders include traditional participation in international and all-Ukrainian scientific conferences with the publication of abstracts and articles; attendance at webinars, master classes, and trainings; participation in international and all-Ukrainian art competitions and festivals; advanced training courses, as well as participation in the collective monograph of the department based on the results of completing a complex topic, etc.

Among the significant scientific achievements of the group’s participants, it is worth noting their participation in six international scientific and practical conferences with the publication of articles, two of which were organized by the Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching Artistic Disciplines of the BSPU (https://surl.li/bsnzqg; https://surl.li/udhqen), which contributed to the expansion of the professional knowledge of the circle members and integration into the international scientific space, as well as five conferences of the All-Ukrainian scale (Sumy, Nizhyn, Zaporizhia, Dnipro), etc.

This year, the group members actively focused on exploring the role of artificial intelligence in supporting the educational process and the importance of academic integrity to ensure the quality of education and the development of scientific research. To this end, applicants for the first and second levels of higher education in the specialty A4.13 Secondary Education (Art. Music) underwent training under the program “Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity: How Not to Cross the Line of Permissibility?” from the training cycle from the Commission on Ethics and Academic Integrity of the Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University and received certificates of advanced training in the amount of 0.3 ECTS credits., as well as the All-Ukrainian webinar “Academic Integrity as the Foundation of Quality Education” from the Odessa National University named after I.I. Mechnikov, the Ukrainian Office of Research Integrity (UkrRIO) and the All-Ukrainian NGO “Innovative University” (Odessa branch).

 A separate area of ​​the group’s work is the participation of graduates in art competitions and festivals and receiving well-deserved awards. Thus, the group’s participants, graduates of the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education Bessonova Valeria and Shchelkanova Mariana took part in the International two-round competition-festival “Hopes and aspirations of Ukraine” (https://surli.cc/gqyyil) and “Colorful Autumn” (https://surl.li/abquif) and received diplomas of first-degree laureates. The stage and creative activity of graduates of the specialty A4.13 Secondary education (Art. Musical art) is also undoubtedly an effective practical platform for their scientific activity.

As part of the work of the group, six meetings were held, one of which was dedicated to the analysis of the results obtained by applicants in informal education in particular, testing on the national online platform «Дія». Education “Digital Grammar for Teachers”, which confirmed the proper level of digital literacy of future music teachers.

A significant achievement of the group leaders, namely Associate Professor Viktoriia Hrihorieva, was participation in the English language learning project of Mariupol State University, which received the rights to the electronic platform of the same name for learning English from the company Reallyenglish.com Limited, which has been helping to teach foreign languages ​​to specialists from corporations and educational institutions for more than 20 years. In Ukraine, the platform operates under the name English4Ukraine, thanks to which certificates of 5.5 ECTS credits were obtained for the successful completion of two courses

• https://surl.li/ngopju
• https://surl.lu/dzhogw

The work of the group continues and opens up new, relevant areas of research in the field of art education to its participants.

Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching Artistic Disciplines Viktoriia Hrihorieva