Thanks for sharing this, I really appreciated the section on incomplete projects and overall reflection.
Do you think there’s diminishing returns to the importance of questions in your research agendas? E.g. have the new questions generated from existing research been just as important or crucial as existing questions?
I think it varies. Interestingly I think there can frequently be increasing marginal returns to the importance of questions as we learn more about what our stakeholders needs are, what kind of work actually gets traction, what is important, etc. Often initial work is just exploration of the topic that we can then refine to go deeper on something more impactful. But research is inherently the exploration of the unknown so it can be pretty hit or miss unfortunately!
Thanks for sharing this, I really appreciated the section on incomplete projects and overall reflection.
Do you think there’s diminishing returns to the importance of questions in your research agendas? E.g. have the new questions generated from existing research been just as important or crucial as existing questions?
I think it varies. Interestingly I think there can frequently be increasing marginal returns to the importance of questions as we learn more about what our stakeholders needs are, what kind of work actually gets traction, what is important, etc. Often initial work is just exploration of the topic that we can then refine to go deeper on something more impactful. But research is inherently the exploration of the unknown so it can be pretty hit or miss unfortunately!