The Research journey

Before we begin, i wanted to thanks all of you who have read my previous post for sort of like catch up with what i did while "missing" in the previous months. I didnt know there are like number of you who are really care. So.. thank you so much!

Right, so today i'm gonna talk about the Business Research which is probably one of the biggest project i have ever done in my study. Surprisingly there are a few colleges' courses who doesn't have the Final Year Project, i suggest you to check out if there's other modules to replace it, because in the future if you tends to pursue Degree or Phd, you'll need to conduct research and you'll need both skills and knowledge from research.

In this stage, I am only doing a research proposal which if in the future my supervisor approve, i can carry on with i've done instead of starting all over again. So, what so inspiring and important about this modules is it let me visualise what i've learn and put them altogether into practice.

A lots of students especially those who're in business management studies do not know why they should learn those theory and where should they apply. Its hard for student to visualise as it seems kind a abstract and theory based. Plenty of people saying there is nothing to learn in business studies, because all u need in conducting business is practical skills instead of theory stuff.. Well.. i used to have these kind of thought, where i think some of the thing that i learn are really common sense, but research let me know that everything i've learn are applicable in real life or business corporate world.

For instances, how government decide how much they should tax for income tax rate or how to decide the range of inflation rate, product pricing and what so ever. Its all through research. This is where i see a social science students can actually contribute their knowledge back to the community and facilitate the society just as how a professional degree could do. Lots of people only see how doctor or lawyer could help the society, but actually social science contribute the major part to the economic environment. And a country couldn't run smoothly without them.

The first class of Dr. Ben he mentioned that research is a systematic process and its a very lonely journey. I only know what all these meant towards the end of the modules. Research in degree level, you're suppose to came out with a new idea based on what other's have done but the process require you to follow certain guidelines - systematic process. Everything is steps by steps and you can't miss any of them. Lonely journey referring where you have to think of a new words, new sentences, new way to describe an existing terms on your own. The process of finding related journals, read though them, analyse them are all on your own. In order to produce good outcome, you need to put in a lots of efforts, again, on your own.

What makes this modules fascinating is it let me know where and how i can apply my knowledge in such a way that could create a huge impact to society. Which i never know that business studies could be so powerful. And of course because i met Dr.Ben, he has taught me so much and giving me a lots of guidance that definitely creates a life time value.

To correspond with his effort as well as my self-interest, i work really hard though is just proposal stage. It is very lucky to meet such lecture because he taught us many things that doesn't exist in the text books and he just make such boring modules become so meaningful and applicable. I never consider to further any study after degree level because business is just so general in some aspect, but now i see why people further their studies, and it does create a different between this two levels.

So this conclude one of the reason where why i am so busy in the past. I hope what i've shared could help you to capture a clearer picture in your study or just provide you a general view on research.

Thank you so much for reading!

Dr. Ben research methods seminar 2014. 

 Good luck!