What is more important for you, in your University and academic carreer?
I can make the balance between academic work and research through time management. Time management is very essential in education.
Tough but interesting question. I find it really difficult and quite frustrating to do the both activities but no way, I have to do the both. Teaching activities during day time and focus on research work in the evening and a part of night as well at the cost my family time. So, I would say, it is not a good balance. Let us listen to others perhaps they balance the both in a good manner.
I can make the balance between academic work and research through time management. Time management is very essential in education.
I make sure that I attend to my letures quickly because there is usually a specified time limit to give lectures. Benchwork I slate for earlier on in the year (1st 4-5 months) and then I write up the manscripts and send for review and publishing during the second half of the year. Proper time management is key to combining the two efficiently.
How did you the balance between academic work with research?
For my case is between industrial work & research. From high level surface there is a big difference between industrial work as IT Enterprise Architect vs academic research in social science. However, I find that there is a blessing in disguise in which albeit both are quite different, but they complement each other & "spice up" my life in terms of job experience, exposure, life-long learning as well as knowledge contribution through research.
I attend to the lectures witin the scheduled time-frame. Bench-work is for the first 6 months in the year, manuscript writing is for the last 6 months.
Dear Mohammed the same occurs with me, like in the presente.
It is hard to make the time arrangement. Sometime, I have to stop my research for a while.
I never plan though as I feel I am not planning-type persona. But whenever a good topic comes to my mind i jot it down in my phone and then search google scholar if it has any scope. I do writing part in the end though thats a bit killing as I enjoy designing research and doing analysis and preparing tables and structure only. But I feel after sometime things take shape and I write in second half of my work day as and when I find time. I never maintain regularity in writing and neither I repent it (though it means delayed publication) as it helps me having new ideas at every stage of research as I belive if you finish quickly what you plan then you get only what you planned. But if you write even thrice a week over months you accumulate enough. But publishers take unusual time these days that I feel they need to be sensitive to useless pressure to publish that is deliberately created in academic world and that is seriously affecting researcher's stress, career and work life balance. But what I feel is there should be persistence only and rest of things fall in place.
It's hard to do research nowadays especially in Yemen as the electricity is cut off and the slowing of the internet. So, we try to do our best.
The academic work is obligated for a teacher, but the research work is free dedication. A good professor needs to do good research freely too.
What is it more important: the obligation of the free dedication to a cause? Both are important and necessary.
I plan 2 research projects & try to publish 2 papers a year . I need the rest of the time to do academic work , which is teaching under graduate & post graduate students . This needs time to update on recent advances . The academic work is about planning & updating information , while research is about creative work , but this switch is difficult most of the times . My post graduates are of great help in both academic & research work .
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in my view, it is quite difficult to readh some goals in terms of research if you have a heavy teaching load. It also depends on the institution which you work.
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