Most students haven’t finished their projects yet, but I will make another post about long-term changes in students and the impact of their theses after I make impact interview with those who are finishing their theses now (so the post will come out probably during the summer). What specifically do you mean by “being used”? Is it being published in a journal, having reference from some current researchers that it helped them in some way / showed them something new or something else?
Being referenced by a current researcher, policymaker, charity or organisation. I thought the point of Effective Thesis was for students to write something that would actually be used by someone.
Thanks for clarification! I think I have promoted it that way in the early stages, but I have deprioritised the direct impact that theses may create in the past year. The reason is that the value of long-term goals like influencing someone’s (research) career focus or building skills/learning more about the issue in order to become better able to work on it afterwards seems much higher than direct impact produced by theses. Also, many organisations don’t seem ready to take this kind of help from students and the process of soliciting the results from students is pretty long (students work on their theses from 3 months to 2 years, usually about 7 months) which makes usefulness of such help a bit lower. However, I plan to keep track of the direct impact of theses as well and will update this assumption based on the data I receive.
Has any of the students’ research been used?
Most students haven’t finished their projects yet, but I will make another post about long-term changes in students and the impact of their theses after I make impact interview with those who are finishing their theses now (so the post will come out probably during the summer). What specifically do you mean by “being used”? Is it being published in a journal, having reference from some current researchers that it helped them in some way / showed them something new or something else?
Being referenced by a current researcher, policymaker, charity or organisation. I thought the point of Effective Thesis was for students to write something that would actually be used by someone.
Thanks for clarification! I think I have promoted it that way in the early stages, but I have deprioritised the direct impact that theses may create in the past year. The reason is that the value of long-term goals like influencing someone’s (research) career focus or building skills/learning more about the issue in order to become better able to work on it afterwards seems much higher than direct impact produced by theses. Also, many organisations don’t seem ready to take this kind of help from students and the process of soliciting the results from students is pretty long (students work on their theses from 3 months to 2 years, usually about 7 months) which makes usefulness of such help a bit lower. However, I plan to keep track of the direct impact of theses as well and will update this assumption based on the data I receive.