A Personal Reflection on Utilization of Social Science Research Results in Ethiopia

Abstract

The question of utilizing social science research results in Ethiopia
has always puzzled me and I have always tried to explore practical
solutions that are worthy of sharing to all in the field of social science
and anyone who has concern on the topic. This essay is in a way
thinking loud about the issue.
Sad enough the many researches made on variety of subjects are
shelved as if they have no relevance to daily life situation except to
serve as a reference for another round research, which will have the
same fate as previous researches. The academic circle seems to
have accepted implicitly or explicitly that it has no responsibility of
utilizing research results. It is left to the government or some
'concerned body' to find about the research results and utilize them.
The generations of students educated in this context consider
researches only a business of college work. Colleges and universities
are taken as monasteries which house people who don't have interest
in facing and changing reality.