As a researcher pursuing knowledge and who is connected to your own local academia on one hand and to international academia on the other, do you find it important that your research or academic work to be positioned in a specific field or discipline?
In my setting the academic institution does not value interdisciplinarity, and if I do research in fields other than my "official" discipline little recognition, if any, my work would receive.
Do you guys face similar problems? Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Hi,
Yes, I find it important that researches or academic work to be positioned in a specific field or discipline as mastering the knowledge in a specific field is a prerequisite for publishing research work. The more the researcher is specialized, the better work he/she would perform, increase creativity and enrich knowledge to solve related problems.
Thanks, Aida.
Wouldn't this narrow specialization fossilize the researcher?
Wouldn't cross "fertilization" between disciplines bring in new perspectives and solutions to old problems?
Should we, as individual researchers, sacrifice scientific curiosity for the sake personal academic progress?
Hi Muthana,
In my opinion, if you want your researches to be valued and to be considered as addition and to build up to the present knowledge, you should master the specific field or the subject matter. Mastery is not necessarily a degree, but enough knowledge and experience to be able to understand, analyze, discuss and create.
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