Personal Statement: Increasing Research Profile
Personal Statement: Increasing Research Profile
Excellent research informs on an individual’s career, and therefore dictates their success. Ensuring that people in various industries are aware of one’s efforts, which regards the eligibility of their research to get to the academic committee, is crucial for building their work and develop new opportunities in future. Several people have a vague perception that good work sells without exertion of any efforts (McGill-Franzen & Allington, 2010 p. 50). However, developing and a stable professional profile would automatically increase the impact of an individual’s work, facilitating for its credibility in larger audiences (LERU, 2016 par. 3). In addition, a strong and stable profile may result to invitations and new opportunities that spark other possibilities. Consequently, eye research is a wide and competitive field that requires a strong and robust research. However, the field is subject to a series of challenges.
Eye researching in medicine involves conducting studies on the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of the visual system that includes the eye. In addition, raising awareness on how to deal with various eye conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, and degenerative disorders are the responsibilities of an eye researcher.
Consequently, eye researchers seek to embrace a wide range of objectives in a certain period (five years). Ensuring the effective propagation and spread of relevant information concerning various eye conditions, which would in turn raise awareness among various patients in a span of five years is the researcher’s objectives (Shamoo & Resnik, 2015 p. 320). Additionally, after a period of five years, individuals from various countries in the world should be in a position to manage their health and lead a healthy life that attracts the prevention of eye diseases, through a convincing research (Covey, 2004, p. 65). Furthermore, ensuring that eye specialists and medical professionals gain skills on operating medical equipment such as lenses, slit lamps, and ophthalmoscopes, through propagating researches and educational lessons on the equipment is a career objective of eye researchers (Research Toolkit, 2013, par. 8). Eye researchers should equally be able to build up on knowledge regarding eye functioning and prevention of eye disorders through conducting collaborative researches.
Various challenges would co-exist with the implementation of objective strategies. They include difficulties in choosing the best topic, since the target audience would be more interested in a unique topic, or one that does not majorly focus on common themes (Research Councils UK, 2014, par. 17). In addition, creating identification (ORCID) requires a conduction of several follow-ups and steps that may render it difficult task. Otherwise, participation in eye research, which entails spreading convincing medical information, would require an author’s identifier system (Shamoo & Resnik, 2015, p. 250). Moreover, lack of flexibility among the audience is a challenge, since various individuals strictly adhere to researches from specific people and committees. Getting to convince the audience of the effectiveness of a given eye research therefore requires an intensified collaboration (Covey, 2004, p. 62).
Research Campaign/Plan
Research campaigns include prioritizing effective methodologies that would facilitate for the wide propagation of information and attract a large number of people to read the constituents of the research (Research Toolkit, 2013, par. 12). Methodologies include adopting a consistent name in all the eye researches, using an identification system such as ORCID for the name, and including the full-standardized name of a university. Equally, publishing the eye researches in popular journals is an effective research plan. (Williams et al., 2014, p. 30). In addition, liaising with various international collaborators that include authors and popular institutions that handle the topic of the eye would increase the effectiveness of citations in research work. Establishing good funding strategies such as liaising with various funding bodies that include Dunhill Medical Trust, the Stroke Association, and the Action Medical Research, would facilitate for funds that are necessary in enrolment and registration in various research sites. In addition, the funds would facilitate for conduction of research in various locations (Research Councils UK, 2014, par. 10).
Additionally, strategies that would faclitate foe an increase in research profile within a global framework include creating blogs and online journals that would be effective platforms for the global propagation of a research topic (Delft, 2012, p. 15). Various individuals globally, with different age groups, access social networks such as facebook, twitter, and blogs. Therefore, publishing information on the networks may attract a global overview of the publication, thus increasing the probability for access (McGill-Franzen & Allington, 2010, p.33). Furthermore, engaging institutions, popular eye-research authors, and the various medical agencies in research projects and studies would facilitate for transition trom a dependent to interdependent researher, since the stakeholders would attract global readers. Therefore, a research would gain global market owing to the assocaiation with popular stakeholders, thus facilitate for independence (Delft, 2012, p. 84).
Presenting the research on global medical conferences, workshops, and science festivals that deal with opthalmological issues such as eye infections may additionally attract the global population, popularize the reseacrhm and consequently faclitate for undependence (Delft, 2012, p. 58). Moreover, commenting on various social media publications on medical issues by publishing the research on a given issues would provide prevention and care advice to the global population, hence increasing probability for independence and popularity. Patients would therefore seek to find and read the publications. Attending medical workshops and seminars would additionally help in increasing and updating one's knowledge on various fieds of eye research, which would equally facilitate for the global propulsion of unique and attracting publications (McGill-Franzen & Allington, 2010, p. 30). Conclusively, publishing reseach links and personal informtion in school and university websites and pages globally would attract students on using the reseacrh information for their own researches. The publication would in turn familiarize and strenghthen the relationship between global stuedents (Delft 2012 p. 80).
Key Collaborators, Dissemination Opportunities, and Beneficiaries
Key collaborators in eye research include researchers of popular ophthalmologic universities such as The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (The Stationey Office, 2005, p. 135). In addition, various organizations such as the national Institute of Health, The British Computer Association for the Blind, and the NHS Artificial Eye Service provide relevant information on eye issues and would help eye researchers achieve quality work through citing them (The Stationey Office, 2005, p. 139).
Dissemination involves establishing effective platforms for spreading and sharing a research work, which includes publishing and communicating to the audience. Consequently, dissemination opportunities include online media such as journals and popular websites that are easily accessible (LERU, 2016, par. 6). In addition, sharing research data on social media and blogs provides a good ambiance for the target audience to access the information, since several individuals are always fond of them. Furthermore, conducting studies with key collaborators would promote the document’s marketability, since the non-flexible audience would be eligible to access the information (Delft, 2012, p. 86). Conclusively, establishing a good identifier system for such as the ORCID would automatically create opportunities for propagating the information in the research (Research Toolkit, 2013, par. 5).
On the other hand, beneficiaries of a good eye research and profile include fellow researchers and academicians, medical and ophthalmological students, eye specialists and doctors, and patients, and the wider society that strives to mitigate the intensity of eye disorders (Delft, 2012, p. 50). A good research work would therefore facilitate for effective propulsion of prevention and care strategies, basic and advanced ophthalmological knowledge, which will serve the entire team of beneficiaries (Shinton, 2013, par.12). Therefore, engaging beneficiaries in the research by posing various questions, offering a platform for suggestions, and providing citations for a givens study, would maintain and motivate them to maintain faithfulness in reading an author’s research (Shamoo & Resnik, 2015, p. 341). Consequently, research vision and objectives are relevant for a good research profiile.
Research Vision
A strong eye research profile is effective in establishing networks and creating awareness on various ophthalmology issues. Therefore, a five-year vision for eye research profile includes acquiring a good image that would display the knowledge in the research and inform on the assertiveness and good impression of the profile (Williams et al., 2014, p. 19). In addition, establishing a basis for good exposure, which incorporates collaboration from competent colleagues, academic community, and institutions, is enviable. Finally, the eligibility of an attracting eye-research performance is vital after five years (Shinton, 2013, par. 25).
Research Objectives
Eye research requires extra energy to sell and to achieve a variety of objectives in a period of five years. Consequently, after five years, the eye research should be eligible to display a good collaboration history, with various institutions and other competent eye researchers (Shinton, 2013, par. 15). In addition, the research should have established a good networking platform in order to propel eye research ideas in a global ambit (Williams et al., 2014, p. 21). The research should equally be in a position to acquire a legal university name, which includes a standard institutional affiliation that would help propagate the research’s ideas. Conclusively, in a span of five years, the research should be eligible to incorporate a system of author identification that would inform on the quality of the work and a reflection of the overall profile of the research (Covey, 2004, p. 63). Therefore, the medical career, which incorporates eye researching, includes a series of objectives that may additionally attract challenges in the event of their implementation in five years.
Key Challenges
Key challenges in include insufficient funds for research projects, as various funding bodies incorporate a series of steps and qualifications to meet prior to access of aid. Therefore, upcoming researchers may not be in a position to meet such qualifications (Research Councils UK 2014 par. 5). In addition, several individuals currently subscribe to the eye research medical career, which attracts competition owing to a vast number of research documents at the audience’s disposal. Equally, various beneficiaries lack flexibility in the consultation of research documents, while others such as patients would prefer visiting the hospital to access concrete evidence on their ailments, rather than consulting from research documents (The Stationey Office, 2005, p. 134).
Additionally, various beneficiaries do not fancy reading big-volume works that quality researches present (Williams et al., 2014, p. 30). On the other hand, collaborators may pose as a challenge to eye research, owing to the fact that the already established institutions and authors may take quite some time to trust and appreciate the researches of upcoming eye researchers. They would prefer to liaise with fellow popular and competent researchers (Shinton, 2013, par. 15).
Conclusion
In conclusion, a good research emanates from an equally good research profile, which in turn creates global networks and attracts a good number of people. Eye researching therefore seeks to propagate ophthalmological information to a large audience that incorporates the beneficiaries. Effective strategies and methodologies include establishing a consistent author name, adopting an identifier system for authors such as the ORCID, publishing research work in popular websites and journals, and incorporating blogs and social media platforms in the propulsion of eye researches. In addition, engaging various collaborators in research projects and studies will popularize one’s research topic and consequently motivate the audience to read more researches on the topic. Finally, engaging with various funding bodies would facilitate for funds for various projects and studies.
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