Doing Research and Having Fun ....yes we can! New Poster - Elsie Gakere

For many researchers undertaking their PhD, doing research is serious! Doing research and having fun are incompatible, right? Wrong! The Researchfocus Website has an article titled “Research as a social process” – a must read if it’s been a while since you had fun with your PhD. The article features a humorous account almost 3 decades old, but whose witty admonition on the vagaries of research work is not lost.

I would speak for researchers who work externally, in saying that isolated ponderings must quickly be accommodated as the norm. But reading through this article leaves one not only smiling, but also more aware of the importance of creating fun opportunities to make casual conversation out of one’s otherwise ‘serious research’. After all, until our research work can touch the real world, it remains utopian and unproductive. Also, the funny side of all-things-research can become a useful resource for critique and reality check (– in addition to being a curious ‘research archive’ that can span across the decades :)

Elsie Gakere