A Published Thesis Can Become the First Real Asset in Your Research Career.
Where to begin a research career? For many academics, a thesis represents the first serious output they complete. That initial research experience provides the essential learning experience for asking good research questions, conducting a thorough review, designing and executing methods, and crafting arguments. However, far too many theses languish unread in university archives. Publishing your thesis will convert this mandatory rite of passage into the very first tangible asset you accumulate for a professional research career.
A published thesis continues beyond the conferral of your degree, moving beyond the boundaries of a university to take its place among existing knowledge for the benefit of your colleagues, your field, and your future career. Why is visibility important to the practice of research? Careers are constructed through contribution, and your contribution is of value only to the extent it is visible and accessible to others.
Of the most significant benefits that result from thesis publication is its role in early career credit and development. If you don’t yet have dozens of refereed articles, grants, or funded projects, a published thesis shows prospective partners and collaborators that you can and have done significant and original work and produced outputs that are meaningful and relevant to other individuals and groups. You establish yourself as a serious and capable researcher even if you don’t have a large resume to your name.
This is critically important in the academic world. A published thesis can enhance applications to Ph.D. Programs, fellowships, postdocs and even teaching and staff positions at a university. Universities will expect any applicant for Ph.D. Status, postdoctoral position, or a full-time faculty position to have produced research.
A published thesis makes it possible for even beginning scholars to be able to demonstrate the requisite research experience.
Your published thesis can even serve as a springboard for future publications in articles, book chapters or as papers to present at conferences.
While a thesis is essential in the academic job market, publication may be helpful in any field that utilizes research. Consulting, public policy, education, technology, health care, public health and technology firms hire researchers. It is far easier to get a job requiring research skills if the candidates have a record of conducting and publishing high quality research projects and if that body of work includes something substantive that demonstrates significant engagement with scholarly literature, a compelling argument and well supported conclusions. In these non-academic professions, publication can even be as important as the more traditional signs of professional expertise.
Ultimately, the published thesis marks another important step in your personal research portfolio. A portfolio does not develop with the flick of a switch – and for beginning researchers, publication in a peer-reviewed venue can mark a turning point. Rather than the thesis project vanishing from public awareness, the published thesis becomes a part of the ongoing discourse around a research topic, and continues to work for you long after the process is completed. It is, quite literally, your first real research asset.
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