What’s Open at AUT over the Holidays?
Merry Christmas, Meri Kirihimete, عِيد مِيلَاد مَجِيد, Feliz Navidad, 聖誕快樂, Frohe Weinachten, शुभ बड़ा दिन, Selamat Natal, and a very happy holidays to all! This Friday is the last day […]
Throwback Thursday: Postgrad Parents – Tips from a Graduand
This article by Dr Melissa Gould first appeared on Thesislink in May 2017, when Melissa was about to receive her PhD. She is now a graduate not a graduand, but […]
Over 6,000 PhD students were surveyed worldwide. Here’s what they said.
Nature has recently released the results of its biggest ever survey of PhD students. More than 6,000 respondents from all over the world* answered questions about their job satisfaction, their […]
The Value of Finding your PhD Tribe
I’ve just come back from a gathering of 80 Māori and indigenous PhD students at Puketeraki Marae at Karitāne in North Otago. We’re all members of a national PhD scholars’ […]
Welcome Home: ‘Reverse Culture Shock’ after International Study in NZ
Four years ago, when I left Indonesia with my family to start my PhD in Auckland, I needed to adapt to a new culture, climate, and Western academic system. I […]
November PG Writers’ Retreat 2019
On November 4-7 2019, twenty AUT research students attended the Graduate Research School Postgraduate Writers’ Retreat at Vaughan Park in Long Bay. They strolled the beach, attended workshops, had one-on-one […]
Learn on your Lunch Break
In a postgrad research programme your whole job is about learning: learning from others’ research, learning from your own research, and helping others to learn. But typically, all that learning […]
Throwback Thursday: Employability Strategies for Graduates
This post by Robyn Kannemeyer first appeared on Thesislink in November 2016. You may be close to submitting your thesis but have you thought about what happens next? How will […]
Join the Postgraduate Research Advisory Group
Want to help improve the postgraduate research experience at AUT? Students working on a Masters or doctoral research project are invited to join the Postgraduate Research Advisory Group (PRAG) to […]
Entry-Level Ways to Start Publishing
Some research students jump right into their publishing careers. They create ambitious plans, draft papers for high-ranked journals, and build up a healthy list of publications during their study. But […]
Come to the AUT Teaching and Learning Conference
Do you teach? Do you want to? If you answered yes to either of those questions, be sure to keep your diary clear for AUT’s inaugural Teaching and Learning Conference […]
Shut Up and Write: AKA How to Turn Nothing into Writing
I know it sounds too good to be true, but this method of working helps you to spit out pages of writing. Now, I didn’t say it was perfect writing, […]