The teaching and researching are a profession containing some behavioral bases such as talent , skill , experience , contact ....itc. What is your suggestion to achieve that and become a successful person.
You cannot have both worlds, at the same time. Research requires an institutional setting, where you can develop your scientific agenda freely, without too much outer interference.Lecturing requires an institutional setting, where you can develop your pedagogical agenda freely, without being tied to a rigid curriculum. Success, in both worlds, is bound upon travelling the extra-mile and in finding institutional reinforcement, i.e. an inspiring scientific milieu and not just an academic job.
Patience, consistency, originality, being always updated on the news.
Yes , dear Dr. Sulafah Abdul Salam , your suggetion is very good.
Thank you so much.
With highly appreciation.
You cannot have both worlds, at the same time. Research requires an institutional setting, where you can develop your scientific agenda freely, without too much outer interference.Lecturing requires an institutional setting, where you can develop your pedagogical agenda freely, without being tied to a rigid curriculum. Success, in both worlds, is bound upon travelling the extra-mile and in finding institutional reinforcement, i.e. an inspiring scientific milieu and not just an academic job.
You must always think and set the goals of success before your eyes and that you do not monopolize the note you own, as well as thinking in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the difference of night and day to learn that everything gets by the command of God Almighty.
Thanks alot dear Dr. Stephen Ternyik for kind explanation. I agree with
you . Please accept my appreciation.
Good luck.
Very valuable illustration dear Nihad Mohammed , we must always set the goals of success before any other things.
Best regards.
I agree with Stephen I. Ternyik
Its very difficult to strike a balance, both are extremely challenging as well as demanding
Choosing an experienced and trusted mentor on whom shoulder you stand, be focus, hardworking, committed and get informed about current need of the society.
Two pieces of advice given me by two renowned and long serving faculty members have been of great help:
1. Prof. Nana Opoku Asare advised that to be a successful researcher or lecturer, one has to cling to excellence and integrity.
2. Prof. Joe Adu Agyem counselled that keeping on working with hardwork, always ready to learn, setting healthy academic goals and striving to fulfill them would make one a successful researcher or lecturer.
Heeding to their advice, have made me a better scholar and a refined researcher.
Hardworking, determination, commitment ,patience and consistency can help an individual achieve or become a successful person or researcher.
You need to have a plan, ideas, purpose.
You have to work a lot and do not worry about failures.
It's good to talk with other people, collaborate with other people, discuses about your research/lectures - sometimes others see something that blocks us doing a better job.
Me too Prof !! Try hard convincing oneself that we mean good to others by helping them realize certain concepts that will support them in the long run.
In either case, the key to success is positive attitude, hardwork, descipline, patience, consistency, determination and experience. Research can be sometimes very challenging and fruitless, It can put ones patience, descipline, and motivation to test. Only a winning attitude and self confidence followed by Hard work will keep one continue in researching. Same is the case with teaching.
Dear Yehya A. Salih, you have raised an interesting issue.
To be known in teaching or research areas at any level either locally or internationally, I hope the following might have a contribution.
1. The most important pint is love and respect your profession.
2. Be have a commitment, determined and always work hard with no excuse smartly,
3. Always set a pray
4. Try to establish local and international links and collaborations at any available opportunities
5. Always consider yourself as if you do not know any thing, don not get satisfied
6. work hard and smartly.......................
It is always important to have a clear goal and be able to determine your strengths and weaknesses. And to know what you want to achieve in your life.
I cannot imagine that someone could be a good scientist without an inner conviction.
But it's probably harder to be a good lecturer without talent - here innate talent, communication skills and openness to people are key values.
How to be good at this work?
The answer is simple and has already been mentioned several times in the above discussion: hardworking.
you can be a one either successful researcher or universal lecturer
how to be a successful in this all above scientist and researcher explain well
Set your goal, then pay 100% efforts with sincerity , Pray from Allah and trust in Allah .
A person has to update his/her knowledge. Otherwise its like drinking water from an old stale pond.
Whether its teaching or researching the first and foremost thing required to be successful is
Having a thorough knowledge in your subject and
Keep yourself updated about what is happening in that subject world over.
Be humble in dealing with all your students/ other researchers.
Express gratitude when you receive help from others and
Appreciate the one who does better than you in that field
aah very tough question. To be good teacher and to be good researcher is a tough job. Teaching perfectly and ideally is full time job. Teaching to satisfy and receiving clapping in the last of lecture voluntarily needs devotion and lots of study. Research again requires too much time to carry out and to be acknowledged by reputable journals needs too much time. It is better to be good researcher because it helps teachers to be confident about theories and practices which are globally practised.
It is a long way to reach them but I think the motivation is the great thing to decrease the duration of the long way.
One needs a great balance to become a successful researcher and a universal lecturer as well. Only exceptional personality can go up to those heights!
Good luck.
Keep on learning from reading, attending conferences and workshops, participating in ResearchGate discussions and take heed of feedback from colleagues, students and lay people
My observation is that to be a researcher, you need to secure funding through external grants, have good students and publish. To be a good teacher, you must never stop learning new developments in your field and become an inspiration to your students.
I think we can be both researcher and lecturer. It all depends on the capacities of the lecturer. To combine the two, the research-based learning is commonly used. For the passive learning, teacher uses publications to explain basics and concepts. In active learning, labs are designed in the way theory fails to explain experimental data. Students are expected to explain why? In passive learning, the results are important and on active leaning, the research process is more important.
Thank you dear Dr. Arben J Salihu,,, for answering. I agree with you that Sincerity, ,Determination, ,Hard work, ,Commitment, ,Constant update, Patience and Experience are the best feature for making the good lecturer.
Please accept my appreciation.
I engage myself in a lot of scientific research activities in my discipline.
Dear Dr. Segun Michael Abegunde.. Thanks alot for response.
Hardworking, committed and get informed about current need of the society are also necessary for the scientific researcher.
Regards..
Dears : Prof. Dhia Taain and Dr. Abdallah Hussien Fathy ..
Thank you very much for your comments .
With my best wishes..
Hello dear Dickson Adom.. I agree with your Prof. Joe which counselled that keeping on working with hardwork, always ready to learn, setting healthy academic goals and striving to fulfill them would make one a successful researcher or lecturer. Good luck for you and your Prof. Joe Adu Agyem .. Dr. Yehya.
Yes , dear Dr. Akua Agyemang Nimoh..
It , s really that hardworking, determination, commitment ,patience and consistency can help an individual achieve or become a successful lecturer or researcher.
Best regards.
Dear Dr. Piotr Bętkowski.... Yes, dear , having plans, ideas, and purposes are also necessary. Also It's good to talk with other people and collaborate with them and discussing about our researches/lectures were needed too.
With my highly appreciations.
this link is useful
https://www.rug.nl/news/2012/04/jennifer-spenader-successful-researcher
regards
Dear Dr. Beemnet Mengesha Kassahun,, I am in full agreement with your valuable and useful answer Sir. Really ou list very important steps to be known in teaching or researching and to be a good and smart lecturer.
Good luck Sir.
Research is the process of production, creation, innovation, talent, and not every human being can do it, and should know that academic excellence does not mean qualification for this work. It may even be the opposite. One of the most important principles required in the researcher and the outstanding lecturer is the commitment to the principles of ethics, objectivity, honesty, patience, deliberation, insight and presence of intuition, and the researcher should not be fooled by many who say an idea or their reputation. Hence the researcher must examine everything that reads, but he has to think and study and balance the views until his character emerges.
Dear Dr. Aparna Sathya Murthy&&& Thank you so much for comment. I appreciate your answer . Of course we need that.
Please accept my appreciation..
Hi , Dr. Sajjad Ahmed.. I agree with you that the key to success is positive attitude, hardwork, descipline, patience, consistency, determination and experience. So research has been need the same thing.
With regards.
Thank you for your question by following the development in education
quality The link between research quality and teaching quality is complex and multidimensional. Based on the previous literature, we distinguish several main mechanisms that can underlie this relationship. Depending on which of the mechanisms dominates, this relationship can vary from positive to null, and even to a negative one.
The first type of mechanisms suggests a positive relationship between research and teaching via complementarity between skills. Conducting research can both enhance teacher’s proficiency in the subject and keep the teacher up-to-date with regards to the newest developments in the discipline. As a result, research activities would have a positive impact on teaching quality. Such skills transfer can operate not only at the level of the teacher but also at the teacher-student level. For example, through involvement in teaching activities and interactions with students during classroom discussions, researchers can transfer their critical thinking and research skills to students.
The second set of mechanisms suggests a negative relationship between research and teaching. Both research and teaching activities require an investment of time and effort. Being involved in one activity, for instance, the process of conducting research usually does not allow for simultaneously spending time and effort on another activity (the process of teaching), unless one activity benefits both research and teaching (e.g. reading a scientific paper can simultaneously contribute to research ideas and to teaching preparation).
In other countries, I might not be able to make any suggestions, but in Singapore, the pathway to research is a PhD degree. You can indeed become an Associate Professor with a recognized Master's degree, but to properly contribute in the scientific process, you will need a PhD. Do note that with an MSc, you are expected to have industrial experience and you will begin work as a Lecturer. In Singapore, all academicians are expected to contribute to journals (with significant impact) on top of teaching. So, you will end up publishing 1-3 high quality papers while working with coursework. But you can always supervise a research student and have them do some of this labour for you.
Either way, you can either conduct research at universities or at research centres. Note you might also look at the kind of research you wish to engage in. It is highly unlikely that in Science and Engineering, you are easily to get a place in research outside your university. It is highly unlikely, for the social sciences, things may be doable outside your universities.
In Singapore, the foremost research centres tend to be government funded and they are AStar and so forth. The 2 major universities we have here are NUS and NTU, so a good degree (with a high CGPA, as they are very grade centric here), you should have a potential career in Academia. But after your PhD you will need to pursue a fellowship elsewhere. Direct employment in your home university is difficult here, you need to spend about 5-10 years in another university, preferably abroad. Australia is a good destination, some folks I know are in good universities there.
In the United States, the universities have strong private sector/government support so, even if you are at a state university (private universities tend to be centres of excellence as opposed to their public alternatives, opposite of Asia) that has a well-funded institutional programme, then you're in a good place. In the UK, you should probably seek a place at a Russel's Group university, usually this comes down to Oxbridge / Imperial, places where actual research with impact takes place. Oxbridge alone has a plethora of colleges that multiplies their research output exponentially. In Australia, the equivalent is Group of 8, but they don't have strong research institutes outside these universities, if you genuinely wish to seek a career in research, you probably are better suited with a PhD from ANU/Melbourne/Sydney/Queensland. They are the major state universities.
In Asia, I am not that familiar with the Chinese system, though I have a good deal of information from their institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences (high amount of high impact output there), then you have the usual universities such as Peking / Tsinghua et cetera, but like Singapore, it seems the Chinese centres of excellence tend to be institutions outside the universities.
On India, you tend to have public universities such as Indian Institute of Sciences for hard sciences, the IITs for their engineering subjects for social sciences, I understand they've got constituent colleges in University of Delhi (I have heard of St. Stephen's, apparently Obama went there for talks). Research in that country tends to be undertaken in their universities, minimal private sector input/output there.
In Indonesia, you tend to have the University of Indonesia and a host of other universities such as Universitas Gadjah Mada. In Malaysia, a selective university there is the University of Malaya, so a PhD from there will help. From Japan, you have the typical candidates such as the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Kyoto and other centres of excellence. But I have no real exposure to the research situation in these countries. Most of this data is available in the public domain, you may easily refer to the widely available rankings that have such variables covered. You can refer to some of this data and make some estimations.
Kindly note, coming out of a good institution with a degree is not enough as your general research alignment is important. If what you wish to conduct research in is a widely pursued area of research then you should secure a place somewhere which is well-funded. However, even if you have a PhD from somewhere, say, like NTU, your place is not secured if your research area is not generally well-received or funded. Whatever you write your thesis in is important, it will either make or break your general career trajectory.
Choose your topics very very wisely, take your time... but pursue something that genuinely interests you. I have personally witnessed some people who have had to change their research interests midway in their careers. My previous supervisor successfully made this transition from Business Information Systems (that is always fully staffed) to Social Networks and disaster management coupled with collaboration with folks in the Medical Sciences field.
Also note, the research funding situation is most conducive for research undertaken in the medical areas. But that strain of research is very generalizable so anything you publish will be reproduced everywhere else. High risk and result intensive.
Finally, note - Institutes conduct research - not individuals - unless you are going to self-fund yourself from research to publication. So align yourself to the institution - you WILL NOT change the world on your own. If you do not wish to change anything... research isn't a good fit anyway.
Hope this helps.
Continuous learning, hard working, adopting for opportunities, accepting the views shared no matter how small it may be along with dedication to the work.
One of the most important thing is to not give up upon barriers or failures.
Learn new things in your area, keep up with quality research and work on getting grants for bigger research
Yes, dear Dr. Adu-Poku Achiaa.. The commitment, hard work and determination are very important for successful.
Best regards...
Hi , dear Dr. Joanna Gocłowska-Bolek.. Thank you for valuable answering . Hardworking , inner conviction and the clear goal are very necessary for success lecturer in addition to talent .
Good luck..
Thanks alot dear , Tahir Iqbal,,, for your kind comment .
Best greetings.
Dear Prof. Dmytro Leshchenko,,
I agree with you and say also (( Study, study and study))
Good day and good luck..
I am very thankful for you dear, Bushra Zahoor,,, Trust in Allah is the important goal for any person who wants to succeed in his work and his life.
Highly appreciation..
Hi, Anuradha Iddagoda *** Yes , it , s necessary for any person to update his/her knowledge in order to enjoy the recent development .
Good luck.
Dear Dr. Asoori Latha.. Thank you for kind answer.
I agree with all your valuable suggestions and opinions and I actually appreciate that.
With best regards..
Hello my dear , Ajab Ali Lashari... Yes it , s right that teaching perfectly and ideally is full time job and research also requires too much time to carry out and to be acknowledged by reputable journals .
With best wishes.
Dear Dr. Raid,,
Good evening . I agree with you that It , s a long way to achieve the best teaching and researching , but the motivation is the best thing to decrease the duration of the long way.
Dear Joana Mam, great answer. Goal must be set in life for future path. Dr Stephan also said that you cant have two things at a time. Factors stated by Dr Asoori should be considered for successful career
Hi dear Dr. Mahesh Kumar.. I agree with your kind suggestion , that we need a great balance to become successful researchers and universal lecturers too.
With best regards.
Dear Dr. Borden Mushonga.. Thanks alot for response. Yes Sir, keep on learning from reading, attending conferences and workshops, participating in Researchgate discussions and take heed of feedback from colleagues, students , all these features are recommended for success universal lecturers and researchers.
With highly appreciation.
Dear Dr. Murad Almekhlafi Thank you for comment . Of course the reading , follow-up and educational psychology are also important things for success lecturer.
With best wishes..
Dear Dr. Mushtak Al-Ouqaili..
I am very thankful for you about your interesting answer .
Good luck.
Thank you Sir , Amir Al-Khafaji.. I agree with you about your useful contribution , Yes if any one want to be a researcher, he needs to secure funding through external grants, has good students and publishing. Thank you again and best wishes.
Yes dear Dr. Paul Olusegun Bankole,,, Conduct and publish original researches are very important for success researchers too.
Best greeetings.
Dear Prof. Zin Eddine Dadach... I agree with you that we can be both researcher and lecturer , so that depends on our capacities.
Highly appreciation.
Dear Dr. Abdallah Hussien Fathy..
Very valuable contribution , thanks alot for that. You are right , the good researcher must be active , creative , effective , scientific , honest and hard working.
With best wishes.
Dear Dr. Isam Issa .. Yes Sir , of course not every person can be a researcher or excellent academician .
Your comment is very valuable .
Good luck.
Dear , Dr. Santosh Dubey.. Thank you so much for your valuable and detailed answer and explanation. Good information about the research and researcher in Singapore .
Please accept my appreciation.
With best wishes.
Dear collègues,
Thank for interest discussion.
I think, it is a good way to have the students for scientific advance of all groupe to the big study. You have really more answers on the some question with many personnes...
Best wichers,
MTT
Thanks alot dear Dr. Hassan Nima , for the useful link that you attached it. With best greetings.
Dear Dr. Dennis Mazur... Thank you for your comment.
Good luck and good day.
Dear Dr. Anand Raghavendra Rao. Yes Sir you are right , thank you for valuable contribution.
Best regards.
Hi , dear Jumoke Soyemi,,, Your answer is suitable and meaningful.
With greetings.
I suggest you see this link:
http://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/how-to-become-a-good-researcher/
Thank you so much dear Dr. Adnan Abbas for your kind comment .
With my best regards.
Dear Dr. K N Sheth Thanks alot for contribution and comment.
Good luck..
Dear Dr. Marpha Telepova-Texier... Really it,s very interesting and valuable discussion and contribution , we actually need such as these contributions.
Please accept my appreciation.
I am very thankful dear , Abbas Biglar, for the suggested link that you
send .
With best wishes.
In my opinion, only with a triple journey or a body of assistants to help in scientific productions!
Dear Dr. Osmar Antonio Bonzanini,,, Thanks alot for kind comment.
Best greeetings.
Dear all..
I am very thankful for every one who answer , contribute or comment my question. Very valuable and useful contributions. Thanks again.
Good luck for all.
Sincere effort,hard work and dedication may lead me to become successful researcher/teacher
Thank you so much dear Hidouri Khaoula for kind response.
With best regards.
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