Are you still interested in the subject on which you completed your dissertation?

[FredaFrogspawn]

I have been browsing bookshops and found a new book about a lesser known author who featured heavily in my undergraduate dissertation, some years ago. Initially I thought -wow, must have this- but then realised I simply didn’t care enough any more to buy it.

Yes, and actually I wish could go back and rewrite it using the knowledge and contacts I have now in the same field, and then use it to do what I wanted to do as it's outcome (develop project targeting a specific group that historically have very poor uptake of health services, anyone familiar with my username will know what that group of people is!)

Slightly annoyingly the idea I had has been 're-imagined' many years down the line up by a regional not for profit group. I keep toying with the idea of emailing them and asking to be on their stakeholders group but really I'm a nobody in the grand scheme of things, and I'm not sure I have the time.

It's something I'm very passionate about.

Absolutely..
My thesis was done in the '80s, and concentrated on the link between fashion and music through time. Although i can still see connections these days, there not as strong as have been in the past.

I did mine on a specific area of a specific religion, based around ambitions for younger generations. I think I cated about if for about half the time it took me to write it, then I dont think I could have cared less but it was too late to change.

BSc - yes would still find it interesting.
MSc - ha no. I got a distinction in it, but (1) it's boring as fuck on a topic so esoteric I changed the whole direction of my life into something more useful, and (2) I actually don't understand it any more. Lots of very specific technical terminology I know longer understand.

"no longer" ffs

Mine was some aspect of Victorian Social Policy and I still like that stuff but I couldnt write it now!