Opportunity for Conference Volunteering
Late last year, our staffer Scott Pilkington wrote about the great experience he had volunteering at a conference. Well if you were tempted to give it a go, here’s your […]
Do You Use Measurements in Your Research? Read This.
Well knock my socks off and file this under: ‘things I never thought about until I was a researcher.’ Today, the definitions of metric units (including the kilogram, second, and […]
Reflections of a Muslim Student 60 Days after New Zealand’s Darkest Day
This reflection was written by AUT PhD candidate Najmah Usman with her husband Kusnan Sayuti. On 15 March 2019, two mosques were attacked. 50 people died that day, with one […]
Why You Should Pick All the Cherries
On cherry trees, as in data, there will be some pieces of fruit that look great – so plump and red that you want to sink your teeth right in […]
Ideas for Structuring Your Thesis or Dissertation
My favourite Jorge Chan ‘PhD Comic’ is titled Writing your thesis outline. Structuring your research thesis or dissertation is an inexact science and there are different ways of breaking it […]
My PhD was “For Nothing” and I Couldn’t be Happier
I once wanted to be a lecturer. I loved the idea that one day, I’d stand in front of a classroom full of impressionable young minds and nurture them, the […]
Throwback Thursday: Research and Socioeconomic Privilege
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in April 2016. The writer Virginia Woolf famously said that in order to write, all a woman needed was “a […]
Time to Start Thinking About the PG Research Symposium & 3MT
Got some research to share? Wanna meet other postgrads? Win some prizes? Just get out of the dang office? Well you’ll be happy to learn that the most exciting time […]
The Final Act: Writing your Doctoral Graduation Citation
As a former postgraduate learning adviser, I found it useful reminding new doctoral candidates that all their labours would end up in a thesis that was probably no more than […]
April Writers Retreat 2019
Earlier this month, AUT postgrad research students and expert facilitators descended on Vaughan Park Retreat in Long Bay for 3.5 days of uninterrupted writing bliss. No jobs, no kids, no […]
How to Not Annoy Journal Reviewers
Want to publish journal articles during your Masters or PhD? You’ll need to get past the gatekeepers first: the dreaded journal reviewers. Typically, when you submit your article to a […]
Let’s Talk Post-qualitative Inquiry
As researchers we inevitably work within a set of norms that have been built by other researchers before us, using the vocabulary they formed, and the methods they refined. As […]