Research through dialogue
Wisker, Robinson and Shacham, (2007) suggest that “All research is a dialogue with others” (p. 304) and that can mean a number of things. First, exchanging ideas with other students […]
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Application sale – Evernote Premium and Scrivener…..
An appealing deal for postgraduate students interested in purchasing Evernote Premium plus Scrivener (MacHeist Bundle) for just US$29! Check out the following link which also includes other applications of interest. […]
Inaugural Graduate Conference hosted by University of Waikato
The University of Waikato is proud to present the inaugural one-day Graduate Conference to be held on Saturday 24 November, 2012. This will be a chance for post-graduate students (present […]
What is Wordle?
“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can […]
So you’re handing in your final draft…..
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Doctoral Get-Together, Friday 12 October 2012
The University Postgraduate Centre hosted the last doctoral get-together for the year on Friday 12 October in the Conference Centre, AUT City Campus. Dr Enrico Tronchin, Business Operations Manager from […]
Learn, Share, Advance
AUT University Library is hosting Open Access (OA) Week for postgraduate (masters and doctoral) students, researchers and Academic staff to attend. One of the events offered during OA week include […]
Preparing for the AUT 3MT competition…
I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into, but then thought – what have I got to lose? Preparing the talk was initially harder than I thought, but it […]
My experience of the 2012 Postgraduate Symposium….
As usual this was a great event. Congratulations to Jesse Pirini for winning the 3 min thesis competition! I was talking to another student where I work and he said […]
University Postgraduate Centre updates from the 2012 Postgraduate Symposium
On Tuesday 28 August 2012, the University Postgraduate Centre hosted its 6th annual Postgraduate Symposium in the AUT Conference Centre. Professor Richard Bedford, Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) opened the Symposium […]
Back it up!
Over the years I’ve been involved with post-graduate research I’ve heard many horror stories of lost files. Computers get stolen, or crash. Memory sticks get lost, or even broken. External […]
Role of theory in research
Check out this great blog post on a topic that challenges many researchers. There are also links to two relevant papers. Click on the link provided: http://thesiswhisperer.com/2012/07/26/theory-anxiety/