Dear Dr. Yulia,

My objective in the research and generally in life is to do useful, and reasonably accurate things. I identify the usefulness by the need of these things in reality. Occasionally, I link my work to the development of my country, but with international value too.

Dear Yulia,

As University academic staff, I have three duties, doing research and publish being one. If I do not publish I can not claim and get any promotion. Second, research and publication is one of the get-way to attract research grants in the local and international competitions. Third, research and publication is part of the teaching-learning process in our post-graduate program. So, I have to show my effort to my students before talking and encouraging students to do research. Finally, it is through research/ publications that can be linked with similar international research colleagues. In conclusion, my objective to do research touches the above lists...

It depends on whether your research is natural science research or social science research. In the latter, there may be objectives that contribute to either one or more of these three goals: new knowledge, new policy recommendations and improved practice.

Some scholars find research questions and objectives as overlapping. In either case, you should keep your objectives/research questions SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-bound).

Hope this helps.