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Strengthen your methodologies to realize sound results, academic researchers told
What you need to know:
- Developing countries spend an increasing proportion of their scarce resources on education. Through education they seek, first, to follow the traditional path to “development” by strengthening their national capacity to acquire scientific knowledge and thereby better their economic performance.
Researchers in the academic institutions consisting of professors and doctors of philosophy have been strongly advised to strengthen their research methodologies and ensure their findings are based on accurate data and profound results.
The current development around the world indicates that research is at the heart of innovation and improving policymaking, research contributes to the development and updating of conceptual models and tools that form the basis for its analysis policy recommendations.
Addressing academic researchers during research and dissemination of validation workshop cohort organized by Makerere Business School in Kampala, the acting principal of Makerere University School, Professor Moses Muhwezi said Thursday that there’s a lot of things in the business world and in the policy space that needs to be researched on locally but with the right methods.
“We must shift from the platform of just being academic to public attention that brings solutions to the problems,” he said.
Professor Muhwezi argued that research is widely read and it must include a large number of high-quality and very useful publications and it is appreciated by the country authority and the general public.
“What you researchers should know is, it is a research for a purpose, you should ensure data accuracy, use the right methods, make sure that the right correspondents are picked and the right reviews are made, if you don’t take care of these then we shall be poison to the government and the public with wrong research results,” he said.
Developing countries spend an increasing proportion of their scarce resources on education. Through education they seek, first, to follow the traditional path to “development” by strengthening their national capacity to acquire scientific knowledge and thereby better their economic performance.
Professor Muhwezi said African Universities contribute only 30 percent of the knowledge based research in the continent and only 2 percent of the knowledge base to the rest of the world.
“We must change this in the future. We must step up and up our game in research and development,” he said.
The academic researchers were presenting their research findings they carried out using the money that the government allocated to them to do various research to support the government development process.
A consultant with the National Planning Authority, Dr Marios Obwona said academics must ensure that their research findings reveal something new, not old things that had already been researched and the public knows about it. “Without such development your research findings become irrelevant,” he said.
The director of Economic Forum Makerere University Business School, Dr Fred Muhumuza said development is not just about economy but development about everything in economic social aspects
Dr Muhumuza said there were 66 people who responded to the call for the social economic research but in the first chart this number reduced to 25.
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