5 Ways Your Thesis Can Benefit the Society Right-away
Scientific researches and Academic works take a huge toll on researchers and academic authors who sacrifice their life and personal time behind investigating something which is meaningful and unknown to the world. Once you have finished, you may feel a sense of achievement for having accomplished a monumental task like completing a significant research, such that you want to go ahead and work on thesis publication as a book. That is another tedious task; to choose the right publisher, pitch them your work and request for acceptance; then wait for years with plenty of rejections to finally get the work to the world. But when the thesis is finally published, your work may not get the due recognition or respect that it deserves, mostly because people out in the world, may not feel your work is important enough to them.
The matter of irrelevance of scientific works in real world, has always been an issue with researchers who believe so strongly in their work, but non-scientists feel the discoveries or inventions are doing nothing to change the society. Even Nobel Prize is conferred to those researchers, whose work has practical applications in solving real-life problems, not to the researcher with exceptional finding. So these days, academicians and scientists are burdened with the load of being relevant or significant to society while pursuing their passion.
Here are five ways in which your research can directly impact the society:-
- Survey the Market– An assessment of current scenario, local and global is important in order to decide upon your research topic. For e.g. when a Pandemic like COVID-19 is going on around, and you are a researcher in the field of Psychology, you need to keep in mind the condition of global society and frame, how your research can solve the problems related to mental health during COVID-19. In short, you need to be aware of the problems around you, so that you can find their solutions directly.
- Do Research on a Socially Relevant Subject– You may have passion for the unknown, the undiscovered, but you have to face it; when your research cannot change something in society, it won’t be meaningful to real people. When you pick a real problem, existent in society as your topic of research, you can make a direct impact on the society by solving the problem meaningfully.
- Publish Open -Access– When you are ready for your thesis publication, you have to think on how you will spread your work. When your work is available to people, that is when it makes sense to the society. By publishing your thesis as an open-access book you can reach out to millions of people rightaway. Say, your research is on a hydration machine; if you can spread your work such that it will convince your audience that it can solve water-scarcity across the world, your research will be directly impactful upon society.
- Take Care and Precision on Research Statement– use the same method and precision to develop a problem statement in your research abstract. If there is none, you have to formulate a problem, (which is existent in society, but perhaps unidentified) and then state how your research attempts to solve the problem. Writing a meaningful abstract or problem statement in your research paper is very important for making it impactful or relevant to the society.
- Take Forward Your Work to the Actual Audience– Promotion and marketing in every field hold immense importance. After publishing your thesis, you have to go out into the society and work with real people to make your thesis prominent. You may have to preach and explain the main victims of the problem, how your research is going to help them evolve from situation; how you have worked hard to make a change in the society. That is how, your research will find a place among non-scientists; when they will identify with your work, they will be willing to read it.
Working on a lifelong quest and working for the society are two different things, but what you find out should benefit others at large, and that’s when a research or scientific work finds its true meaning. The best way you utilize these prospects in favour of your research, you can straightaway make the difference to the society around you.
