How to identify a research gap EASILY [Sanity-saving tools]

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  • In this video, I share with you my process for identifying research gaps and all of the sanity-saving tools that you can use to find them easily.
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ความคิดเห็น • 74

  • @me0101001000
    @me0101001000 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    My father is a professor, and upon showing him this, he just said, "if you can't find a bubble, make one". That's a response that I found unexpected. He explained it as understanding how people think in a certain field, and approaching it with a different thought process. For example, when working with viruses, bacteria, DNA, and proteins, biologists approach the project in a certain way, one that is absolutely different from how a physicist or engineer would. I've been doing a couple of projects with him by taking biologists' problems and approaching them as an electrochemist and materials engineer (those are my backgrounds), and I've gotten some slightly interesting results. Hell, we even developed some novel instruments to do research with.

    • @studytime1769
      @studytime1769 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely

    • @studytime1769
      @studytime1769 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Share your email please, I want to ask someone question about research. My study area is same as yours

    • @me0101001000
      @me0101001000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@studytime1769 it's in my profile

    • @benedictemoekabu6442
      @benedictemoekabu6442 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is a very interesting take. Your father must be very wise.

  • @Heyu7her3
    @Heyu7her3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Research tendrils" ‐- what a great and less-intimidating way to put it!

  • @bionasard
    @bionasard ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Love the tip on using "promising results" - will save me from tens of hours on reading through literature reviews!

  • @joshuabrown3190
    @joshuabrown3190 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for publishing this video! This information is fantastic!

  • @iamtoocoooool
    @iamtoocoooool ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your videos, thanks Andy 🙏🏻

  • @beverly210
    @beverly210 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you, Andy!
    I got absolutely stuck as in the Arts everything has been researched, and it is challenging to come up with something unique.

  • @MsWarminded
    @MsWarminded ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stuff. I needed this right now while writing up a paper

  • @t.m.valadares4623
    @t.m.valadares4623 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for sharing. It is like you said … it can be hard to find a gap and less difficult to push the knowledge a bit further in a new direction or angle of examination 🙃

  • @adamstk9592
    @adamstk9592 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Woah! This was super helpful. I was having sleepless nights identifying how to go about finding a research gap and you just saved me a ton of trouble. You got a sub man!

  • @omegab4856
    @omegab4856 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I started using Connected Papers after one of your videos, and I have come back to say Thank you so much for telling us about such a powerful tool ! I appreciate your continued commitment to support current and prospective graduate students, especially in Chemistry all around !

    • @duchessromola8893
      @duchessromola8893 ปีที่แล้ว

      What is connected papers

    • @ezeogunkgmailcom
      @ezeogunkgmailcom ปีที่แล้ว

      @@duchessromola8893 It’s a research tool. Google it out.

  • @aldgio85
    @aldgio85 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank for your work is so useful!!!

  • @amanisaad4636
    @amanisaad4636 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I used to look for the most recent questions and discussion about my field on the Research Gate, and I could find lots of valuable research questions and directions. Thanks a lot for everything you are posting on your channel 🌹🌹

  • @scottdawson407
    @scottdawson407 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really appreciate these videos. I start graduate school in a few weeks!

  • @hajaraadamukhalid1337
    @hajaraadamukhalid1337 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are doing a great job Sir. I must say, I enjoy your videos and you are helping make research more enjoyable to me. Thank you

  • @btwuam5
    @btwuam5 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Dr. Stapleton for this useful information! That helps a lot!

  • @_infinitedomain
    @_infinitedomain ปีที่แล้ว

    Really helpful thanks mate

  • @xasan4492
    @xasan4492 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for your sharing knowledge.

  • @capricorner
    @capricorner ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank you for this video! I'm currently finishing my undergrad and working on writing a grant to fund my grad school. I've always had trouble identifying the gaps in knowledge, I can't wait to try these techniques :)

  • @dtn84
    @dtn84 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I LOVE you!!! My gosh, I do not have the words to say how much you helped me with this video.
    I am going to apply for a Ph.D. program at the end of the year and I always felt terrified when thinking about what would I write about. Like a deer looking into the headlight!! And I already dropped out from a Ph.D. program where, among other things, no one cared to say how the %uck to do that. This video is already on my favorite list.
    Thank you very much!!!

  • @whatsinterrishead2863
    @whatsinterrishead2863 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Watched this a second time and learned even more. I appreciate your videos. Good info.

  • @railzip
    @railzip ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Needed this!!! Thank you

  • @sade5420
    @sade5420 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ohh thank you so much so helpful ❤️❤️

  • @Thisisparmida
    @Thisisparmida ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you!!

  • @karinwiebe1321
    @karinwiebe1321 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Again! Thank you so very much. These videos are the right size. I can jot down a few notes and thoughts during breakfast and carry that new thought into work (PhD student 😊).

  • @pollybarto3718
    @pollybarto3718 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing channel!

  • @mdadil1456
    @mdadil1456 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you very very much sir, i got exactly what i was looking for

  • @zerubabeljember5663
    @zerubabeljember5663 ปีที่แล้ว

    so helpful thanks so much

  • @danielmartin8732
    @danielmartin8732 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your channel is a straight cheat code lol Thanks a lot buddy

  • @thecatthatateaflyinduoling2513
    @thecatthatateaflyinduoling2513 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this video should be sold in millions of $$s honestly

  • @Thisisparmida
    @Thisisparmida ปีที่แล้ว

    Need more of this content

  • @salimibrahim459
    @salimibrahim459 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks for the tip, I've also had a video idea that I may need help on which is how to collaborate with fellow academics when writing and contributing work to a paper.

  • @riyamehta7731
    @riyamehta7731 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I've been seeing your lectures for a long time. As a perspective PhD student, I get so many helpful tips and tricks on how to be an ideal student and what should and should not be done. Thank you so much for all your videos. Rooting for more.

    • @DrAndyStapleton
      @DrAndyStapleton  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great to hear! There's plenty more to come...

  • @cyberlove
    @cyberlove ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @kyfra5257
    @kyfra5257 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video! Thanks for the online apps. I wasn't aware of those! :)

  • @barumbadum
    @barumbadum ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These kind of videos i like.

  • @treefarm3288
    @treefarm3288 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good video.

  • @Alhamzah_F_Abbas
    @Alhamzah_F_Abbas ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Andy for this video, if I want to do a review paper do I need to follow the same techniques?

  • @tolerafufa4661
    @tolerafufa4661 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank inadvance for breaking research gap with brief note .

  • @arash8833
    @arash8833 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!

    • @DrAndyStapleton
      @DrAndyStapleton  ปีที่แล้ว

      No problem! Thank you for the super thanks!

  •  ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I love this channel.
    I want to apply to a PhD program next year and I'm trying to get ready as much as I can, this channel has been so helpful in this process.
    Thanks Andy!

  • @alicenbradley4281
    @alicenbradley4281 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, you are so helpful and brilliant! I am about to take on an MRes and I think I have found the ‘tendrils’ you are talking about. However, my research is in medieval literature so, I think the ‘research gaps’ search words will be different to scientific fields. Any ideas? Thanks

  • @oosconzult.8639
    @oosconzult.8639 ปีที่แล้ว

    God bless you Bro! Thank you Jesus

  • @yadaminstituteofresearchly1137
    @yadaminstituteofresearchly1137 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your tips are helpful. I want to go for phd by publication. I would like know is it equivalent to traditional phd by thesis? What domain the certificate bears ? Is same Doctor of Philosophy that phd has?

  • @tapariayogesh
    @tapariayogesh ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Andy, please share links to the tools in the discription section. It's much easier to navigate with links.

  • @squat_bench_pipette
    @squat_bench_pipette ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Andy! Have you made a video on how to finish a paper? I have a few figures and I am trying to figure out how to finish it up. I find I get into a spiral of "I have so much data" to "none of this matters" but at the end of the day it is data, I just don't know how to finish the story!

  • @somnathchanda1250
    @somnathchanda1250 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow Sir

  • @DannyHatcherTech
    @DannyHatcherTech ปีที่แล้ว

    I would add elicit to the tools worth using for research exploration 😁

  • @DJ_BROBOT
    @DJ_BROBOT ปีที่แล้ว +7

    thanks for this...you helped me on my doctoral dissy in further defining the gap I am looking for. My program heads often talk about the 'gap' but many times this confuses the heck outta me because its like youre searching for a needle in a haystack among the research, In you saying to look at this as the tendrils coming from known research has really helped me to conceptualize my work better, especially when it comes to my literature review.

  • @alaashehada7456
    @alaashehada7456 ปีที่แล้ว

    How about asking the target group / community if there are gaps in intervention or service?

  • @CaptZenPetabyte
    @CaptZenPetabyte ปีที่แล้ว

    My issue at the moment is I am not attached to a University and I am writing as part of my Practice, where can I get access to full research papers? I use Core, Sci-Hub and Google as best I can but I miss having access to all the resources I used to have when I was at UoN

  • @user-cn4yo6tc2f
    @user-cn4yo6tc2f 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    how to identify the methodology and approach (inductive/deductive) of the paper? can you share a paper written with either approach so i can understand. TIA

  • @kenken0728
    @kenken0728 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think this is how students who do required thesis fail. They usually do not identify a gap properly. Making them to make a research but ont that gives only a small contribution that goes unnoticed and then their capabilities dulled when they are not acquired by a research institution because most institutions look for research that close gaps better.

  • @MahmoudBaghdadi-MAB
    @MahmoudBaghdadi-MAB 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Asking a PhD student" this makes me more worried! Because I'm a PhD student and watching this video 😆🙈

  • @dhlong1697
    @dhlong1697 ปีที่แล้ว

    Conclusions are helpful, but then skim the methods to ensure the validity of the study.

  • @snehapradhan5591
    @snehapradhan5591 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤

  • @Mindsi
    @Mindsi ปีที่แล้ว

    Frontiers magazine

  • @andonso
    @andonso ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It is instinct. You gain basic knowledge from bachelor's to master's degrees and also from your readings. the rest is up to you.

  • @dipset4016
    @dipset4016 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Don't chase gaps that researchers with more money and more brains are chasing. Heartache in the making

  • @larouedorllc3735
    @larouedorllc3735 ปีที่แล้ว

    Isn’t it funny someone who failed a career in academia is trying to explain how to succeed? Or maybe it’s to sell his website and newsletter? Who knows?

    • @hauwauyakubu-wokili5239
      @hauwauyakubu-wokili5239 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was rude. Yes one can fail at a thing and be the teacher on how to o succeed. Experience is the best teacher.

    • @borislro6825
      @borislro6825 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hauwauyakubu-wokili5239 if you want to become rich, do you listen to someone who became rich or someone who tried and remained poor? Have you considered that to increase your chances of success you may have get a better outcome by discussing with people who faced difficulties but succeeded? You are free to choose your path...