All lovers of science enjoy when they get results of their attempt in an research.

I think doing research leads to development of scientific temper, a more rational attitude towards things and people, and enhances our analytical power.

We move away from platitudes to a more critical thinking; resulting in us better interpretative power in terms of cause and effect.

Enhancing our thinking and critical thinking, leads to develop and generate another ideas.

@Miranda, I think the impact on researcher is as J. Jackson ( American anthropologist) once said of herself as field researcher "I'm a field note". So it means long after leaving the field researcher in emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, morally influenced and written as field note. The impact on researcher depends on many various factors. For ex. personal sensitivity, potential culture shock he/she can experience according to race, sex, education, values, otherness etc.

Dear Miranda,

I´m getting dizzy and my head swims if I try to read your circle-infos in the right order.

So my result of research is: Getting dizzy all the time!

Working with research affected me very much indeed.

* I believe now that every expression of a human being including me may be right or wrong.

* There is no end for the information . If you know more you feel that you need to know more. May be at the end you feel that you ignore much more than you know.

* If you believed that you are the top researcher , in the next day you will stay in the tail.

* I try to be objective in all my judgment even the issue is subjective.

* There are many solutions for any problem. I must be open minded. May be open heart.

* I must be honest and tell the truth irrespective of the people like or hate it.

Really my profession changed me much as i think in the positive sense.

@Debi, Farhad, Aieman, Beata, Hanno, Abdelhalim; thanks for your interesting and informative posts. I like these things:

'doing research leads to development of scientific temper, a more rational attitude towards things and people, and enhances our analytical power,

...better interpretative power in terms of cause and effect,

..enhancing our thinking and critical thinking,

...my profession changed me much as i think in the positive sense'.

THANKS TO ALL of you.

All the time, we are reflecting :)

Dear Miranda,

following in RG lets me learn about attitudes and behaviour of the other researchers like you. Regards.

Dear Prof Hanno, thanks. My attitudes and behavior are fine, but in terms of resources for research, it's so very poor...sad at times.

Dear Miranda,

Doing research is always a pleasurable thing because of the discovery involved in the process.

Action research is by definition is to provide a solution to a problem in their own organization and to improve practice or understand issues. It will have four basic steps – identify a problem, collect data, analyze data, and take action to resolve the problem. Thus it will not be universally applicable.

Having said that any research if properly done will enhance the understanding, attitude and horizon for the researcher to a great extent.

@Nageswara, thanks. I agree that research will 'enhance the understanding, attitude and horizon for the researcher to a great extent'.

Research is my passion.. i feel very good (mentally) when i solve ...any problem of my research. As a researcher i feel ..it is our duty to solve many problems to make a better world for us and for our future generation...

There are many ways to serve the people ...Research is ine of them to serve...

Regards

Hi again Miranda. For me, research is my life, together with classical music/jazz playing, scientific illustration and painting (watecolours/oil on canvas) and freediving/spear fishing. All those apparently diverse activities do mingle together and I often transit from one to the other almost instinctively. Getting older has teached me that research, writing and submiting are a continuous labour, intense and gratifying but, indeed, the part I do enjoy more - because that's when I do learn more - is to receive referee's reports on my submitted manuscripts. Although this might seem too "Socratic", I do feel that, after all these years in the field the most I got was "learning to be a professional student". And learning is truly a fascinating process for our species.

Thanks again for your allways important questions and contributions,

Cheers,

JP

Dear Miranda

Research is everything for me ! Besides having as improvements in living conditions of human beings , strengthens me, encourages me and makes me feel useful and victorious

The development of a research process establishes processes to follow to get the expected results. Whether they are successful or not, the important thing is to harvest the lessons that allow us to enter into a circle of continuous improvement and development of new innovative processes to improve, strengthen, enrich and derive new actions in the how and why of all research.

Makes me happy

For sure dear Dr. Kamal!

Cheers!

Thanks for your views, dear friends. I can see that being useful researchers gives us all self respect and happiness. I agree with many views:

'Research is my passion.. it is our duty to solve many problems to make a better world',...

'Whether successful or not, the important thing is to harvest the lessons that allow us to enter into a circle of continuous improvement and development of new innovative processes to improve, strengthen, enrich...',

THANKS to all.

@Joao, I also follow and appreciate other people's 'important questions and contributions'...

Thanks Patrick for:

'I analyze and I also see how / why others respond or react to me and my studies. My research have made me learn to be more open-minded - there are many or varied answers'. Like you, I'm always learning...

Conducting a research makes me more satisfied, and more open-minded.

Thanks Mahfuz, many of the commentators here will agree :)

My research helps me to enhance my creativity and innovation.

Regards,

Nitish

Thanks Nitish, Suzan and Michael.

@Michael, thanks for reminding us all that "The research area must be 'lucrative'".

Professor Hesabi an Iranian scientific said that, research and researcher are full of love some people don't fall in love.

@Martin, what was the Question that was 'an adventure'? Please share when you can find time. I am thankful and happy that you are back on RG. But you did right. At times, there are pressing matters in our lives, MATTERS RELATED TO LIFE AND DEATH. When I was still caring for my aged aunt, I could not even join RG.

Old Vs New research

Thanks Lijo et al., indeed a pic is worth 1000 words :)

Research also teaches us to refrain from speaking and let the research speak for itself :)

@Miranda, Satisfaction, satisfaction and satisfaction! :)) Is this Your feeling when You see this research team?

If i have to say:

Before starting - lots of queries within me like ethical clearance, support systems, sample etc... along with bit of excitation...

During - lots of interest, enthusiasm, energetic...

After - thats it...??? Some results are satisfactory while some are not...which may lead to new research question.

Overall - full package mixed with all kind of feeling

For research lover - it is a living with dreams...

I would add to Ljubomir's answer one more thing: learning all the time.

And yes...that photo does show satisfaction and team work.

Cheers,

JP

For me when i carry a research i'm fully invested in collecting maximum data on the subject and compiling them. Then i perform deep analysis, critics and comparison of past results. I carry deep thinking on how to adjust, improve or perform new results. I prefer long talking with my colleagues and/or students on different probable solutions and enjoy testing (or simulating) them. If we get a good solution we enjoy sharing the idea. Of course great satisfaction follows the research, when it is recognized and published.

Nice question. I remember in this connection, the critique to have said about the Pavlovian experiment of Classical conditioning. It is difficult to say if the dog got conditioned to salivate or the experimenter got conditioned to give food once the dog started salivating.

The research and the researcher get impacted profoundly, some times irrevocably.

Dear folks, thanks for your posts. At times, I get no notification, then, I'm late in responding.

Wonderful posts: 'i perform deep analysis, critics and comparison of past results. I carry deep thinking on how to adjust, improve or perform new results. I prefer long talking with my colleagues and/or students on different probable solutions and enjoy testing (or simulating) them. If we get a good solution we enjoy sharing the idea. Of course great satisfaction follows the research, when it is recognized and published.'

"Satisfaction, satisfaction and satisfaction! :))" I will come back soon.....

The research as a measure we put becomes a passion, a gait that guides our daily lives and our path either at the university or to work in the family. Thus, the statutory scheme , first you stop thinking as agents of public service , free and entitled to a strict equality of treatment and in the service of their University. You are not : you are an employee , your President 's orders .

As such, your "academic productivity" will be regularly evaluated by an input / output ratio , like any other economic activity. As explained by the Japanese researcher Akira Akimoto , "the reforms in higher education designed in almost all countries to increase academic productivity [...] a market principle is introduced in the sense that the survival of an institution depends on the quality of its academic productivity insurance. Consequently, the method used to pass the budget allocation of a fair system to a differential system , an egalitarian orientation competitive "[2 ]

In this scheme of generalized competition , the concept of academic productivity occurs at all levels to guide the allocation of resources from the University as a whole to each individual teacher-researcher , through departments, models and research teams.

At your level , you will be subject to ongoing evaluation of your teaching and research activities , the Presidency , by government agencies , and soon by private firms on the model of the consulting agency

When U ( the researcher ) has researched about something, One-U gain confidence as u generally hold something in your hand that is out of the box or unknown by most of us..Something for which you have studied a lot , u develop an edge over others as you talk sense and not just what's theoretical (or something that may or may not have a base). U present yourself as a rational, Intellectual breed ;) and It gives a sense of satisfaction too that You are improving yourself in terms of what you know so far................. In short people generally research for 3 reasons- 1. Satisfaction , 2. Better Projection of oneself(as now u know more that what's nominal) 3. Career development..........But Good research always start from the love for research and end on more love for research ;)

Thanks for your posts. Very interesting, @Patrick, so you empathized so well and identified so well, you became many 'things'. Glad we are learning as well as having fun here on RG :))

Excitement, enthusiasm, queries, inventions and many more. And of course there are lots of mental satisfaction, development in the thinking capacity, questioning urge, problem solving capacity, increased confidence and what not. It is totally awesome.

"Excitement, enthusiasm, queries, inventions and..." @Lourembam, but sometimes you will experience frustration, dissapointment, adrenalin, gleefulness. But don´t loose your enthusiasm, you learn even by faults and failures.

:-(( no!

:-)) Yes!

Thanks Hanno and Devi, such great honest answers :)

All these effects of research will make you sleep the minute the head hits the pillow.

Dear, my research work make me tired, suffer and nervous, but when published and benefit others I will be happy and smile. TQVM

hello, the research experience was challenging, tiring , it was an ambivalent feeling at times when i was finding difficult during analysis phase and thesis correction phase.fortunately i completed and submitted my thesis last February.

Dear friends, we all feel the positive and negative effects of research. Now research is part of our lives, so are these feelings:

'tired, suffer and nervous', 'challenging, tiring'. Thanks.

'Effect of Research on Researcher' - I don't understand personally, where is the 'negative (?)' effect...

To me, every single step (in the form of a publication of paper or completion of project) refines me to do a 'refined way', teaches me to unlearn things to re-learn it again, afresh, in a newer way, according to the ever varying contexts.

It leaves me every time only as a researcher, a student, telling me every time, 'how little I know', and how the lesser-known and 'unknown world' is too big (yet interesting) to learn.