PG Week: A networking breakfast with Dr Lyn Lavery
Many of you will be well-sated, in body and mind, after this morning’s PG Breakfast with a fascinating talk by Dr Lyn Lavery of Academic Consulting Ltd. Lyn talked about […]
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Get ready for postgrad week
Get excited… next week is Postgraduate Week at AUT! Really, for those of us studying towards a postgrad qualification, every week is postgrad week. But the official PG Week is […]
Diversity Week: Does your research acknowledge intersectionality?
It’s easy to think of diversity in terms of nice neat categories: ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, religion… But nobody can be reduced to one simple characteristic. Everybody has an ethnicity, […]
Diversity Week: Diversity in sample groups
Obvious statement #1: Much research happens on university campuses. Obvious statement #2: University students represent a convenient source of human subjects for research purposes. Obvious statement #3: University student populations […]
Diversity Week: Avoiding unconscious bias in research
Very few people admit to being racist, sexist, ageist, homophobic, or otherwise discriminatory. But even those who don’t feel hatred towards a particular group can still exhibit a bias. This […]
Diversity Week: What is diversity in academia?
When a company references their “diversity plan,” they’re often talking about a plan to meet an ethnicity or gender quota among their staff or in their boardrooms. But diversity in […]
2015 AUT University Postgraduate Centre e-Newsletters
The AUT University Postgraduate Centre distributes a monthly e-newsletter detailing upcoming conferences, forums and events, workshops and writing retreats and other support available for postgraduate students. Have you missed an […]
Calling all Masters students!
Calling all Masters students! There’s a writing retreat coming up in September and now is the time to think about applying. This is a great opportunity to nab four days […]
Photos from the 20 May 2015 Postgraduate Mix & Mingle
The 20 May 2015 Postgraduate Mix & Mingle focused on the launch of the Researcher Development Report, a new online tool that helps researchers find events and resources within AUT […]
Throwback Thursday: Anything but my thesis
This post first appeared here on Thesislink in 2012 Are you suffering from ABMTS – “anything but my thesis syndrome”? Does writing loom over your head like an ominous black cloud? […]
AUT Student Learning Centre – upcoming workshop series
The AUT Student Learning Centre will shortly be running the following two workshop series: English for Academic Skills Independence (EASI) Sessions 1-6 This is an intensive programme of six sessions […]
The Sixteenth Humanities Graduate Research Conference
Here is an awesome upcoming opportunity to engage with other researchers you might be interested in: The abstract application form can be found here, and the bursary application form […]