1. Dr Jamal Roudaki Faculty of Commerce Lincoln University New Zealand
Importance of exposure of Research work and early feedback from presentations
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Faculty of Commerce
Lincoln University
New Zealand

2. Propose of Doctoral program
Doctoral training is the primary conduit for developing skilled researchers
Doctoral students acquiring advanced methodological and analytical skills necessary to participate in knowledge development activities.
Therefore, measurement involve in measuring the capacity of doctoral graduates to:
Plan
Implement research
Contributes to the profession's knowledge base
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

3. Propose of Doctoral program
In accounting, doctoral training affords important opportunities for students to identify and study meaningful accounting professional topics (education, standard setting, theories)
Significant challenges lie ahead in training doctoral students to be skilled and competitive researchers
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

4. Some Thoughts ? How you feel about your research
How confidence are your about your:
Topic
Literature review
Originality
Research methodology
Data collection
Data analysis
Results
Research contribution
Will you obtain:
Researchable data (data collection)
Suitable research method (implementation)
Sensible, Valuable, defendable result/s
Are you sure that you are in the right tack
(not a dead end) ?
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

5. Importance of Exposure
Improving research quality:
Deep understanding of research topic
Gain familiarity with the field
Who is who in the field:
To be criticised
Others opinion:
Second 0pinion
New Opinion
Contradictory opinion
Alignment:
To research stream
Refining research methodology
Put light on dark or gray area
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

6. Exposure Opportunity Dr Jamal Roudaki
Formal
Conference presentation (international or national)
Result Presentation
Doctoral Consortium
Doctoral Symposium
Working paper
Informal
Discussion with colleague
Internal or departmental seminars
Discussion group
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

7. A great presentation results when:
Speaker has a solid base of knowledge
Radiates a love for that subject
Provide the opportunity to present your work in the same arena as established professors and scholars.
Provides a mechanism for getting valuable feedback on Work in Progress.
Create many networking opportunities that help with research
These contacts are invaluable when it comes to develop research
Provides a sense of being a part of and contributing to something larger:
having a big picture
looking out of the box
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

8. Presentation Networking Collaborative research New idea
Constructive Criticism
At early stage very helpful
If fundamental, extremely helpful
If minor, helpful
At last stage too costly (research students)
If fundamental, disaster
If minor, lead final correction
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

9. PhD Project Is this enough? How should you feel about your topic?
Passionate
Enthusiastic
Motivated
Inspired
Builds upon your existing knowledge Research Funnel
You have got to be capable of changing and reinventing, you have got to be able to innovate, if not it doesn’t work
Is this enough?
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

10. Marketing Your Research Project
Importance of objectives of the research project
Wipe-out uncertainty
Positive beliefs about goal attainment
Seeking feedback:
Effort in seeking
Risk in seeking
Amount of feedback received
What Should You Do?
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

11. Confidence Dr Jamal Roudaki
Develop self-confidence
Discuss your idea
Improved your confidence in your work through presentation and discussion with people outside your university or research group
Gather feedback
There is no doubt that feedback can be beneficial
Refine your research question
Refine research methodology
But How?
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

12. Feedback
Feedback is broadly defined as any information that one person (an expert) gives to another person (researcher) as a result of presentation or other means of communication.
In the context of PhD thesis, feedback is:
information given to indicate research objective are attainable and valid
Feedback can be positive or negative depending on:
Presentation completeness
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

13. Seek Feedback Value of Feedback Self-confidence about research project
Topic is valid
Research questions are researchable
Hypotheses are investigating research question/s
Research method producing sound results
Data collection contributes to data analysis
Data analysis contributes to add to the stock of knowledge
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

14. Seek Feedback Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

15. Thesis Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback

16. Thank You Questions Discussion Dr Jamal Roudaki
Importance of Exposure of Research and Feedback