FRESH GRADUATES HAVE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Young Graduates are often confused about where they stand when asked about their previous Research Experience and how to include it on their academic CV. If you are on this ship, read this closely.

If one of the fulfillment for the award of a Bachelor in your University/ Polytechnic includes a final year analytical, evaluation, or design project, then you have previous research experience. I don’t know of other countries, but all Nigerian Universities ensure a final-year student writes and submits a final-year project. That is a research work and it is kept in the department for references and further research.

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If you don’t have any other research work, the publication and scholarship part of your Academic CV should have something like this;
Arewa J.S (2022): Analysis of Facebook Post on COVID-19; A case study of Nigeria. A BA undergraduate research project, submitted to the Department of Communications, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Also, your final year is a research experience time. The period you are scurrying the archives of the internet space in search of relevant literature for your research, the lab works, and the several reviews and corrections from your Supervisor account for research experience.

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You should find a space for it on your academic CV. This is how to enter it on your CV;

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Dr. Udoisoh’s Lab, Department of Ekpo Ikot, University of Ika
Undergraduate Thesis: Adiabatic Analysis of Heat Pollution in Port Harcourt Metropolis
Supervisor: Dr. M.G. Udoisoh

• Designed an empirical investigation into the Heat pollution in Portharcourt
• Collected and analyzed samples from heat-concentrated sites
• Researched relevant literature on the causative factors of heat pollution
• Theorized the possible causes of the present heat pollution in the sample.

Now that you know, go and edit your academic CV and update it accordingly.

Credit: Dr Udoisoh