As researchers, we dream the results we uncover will be able to directly impact the world. Sadly, the people who might actually apply our research findings might not be reading the journals our work is published in.

There is often an assumption that research can be truly rigorous, or it can be “real world” research, and that the two are somehow mutually exclusive or at polar opposite ends of a spectrum. However, the world is not that black and white, and it is possible to have our cake and eat it, too.