My Education Is More Than My Thesis
My thesis will be bound in navy blue. It’s not finished yet, but I’ve already decided. Navy blue cover, elegant silver lettering, my name in full on the front. The […]
Author: Anaise Irvine
Naïve Thoughts I’ve Had About Writing
I’m currently polishing up a PhD thesis, and I already hold a Masters. I’m a reasonably experienced academic writer by now. But when I think back on some of my […]
‘The Club’ at AUT South
Do you ever feel like your postgraduate research is a lonely task? We spend so much time alone as researchers – at our desks, on our computers, in our labs […]
Research as Labour
Editor’s note: this article, published in 2015, makes reference to a previous edition of the AUT Postgraduate Handbook that is now out of date. The most recent edition can be […]
A Day in the Life of a Postgraduate Creative Arts Researcher
They say that without art, the earth is just “eh.” The creative arts – be they visual, kinetic, narrative, musical, or any other kind of expression – enrich and beautify […]
How Do You Define “Success” in PG Research?
As an undergraduate, you know if you’re doing well. Every semester, in every paper, you get multiple reminders: this essay is a C+ or that exam was an A-. I […]
A Day in the Life of a Postgraduate Humanities Researcher [Video]
Humanities researchers study the human experience via culture, psychology, sociology, gender, religion, history, law, and so much more. The humanities encompass everything from Chaucer to flying saucers; from Sigmund Freud […]
3 Cool and Unexpected Tech-Based Research Tools
Each discipline has its methodological traditions. If you’re in the humanities, you’ll probably work with qualitative methods. If you’re in the sciences, it’s probably quantitative methods for you. But more […]
A Day in the Life of a Postgraduate Science Researcher [Video]
A lot of the time, we postgrad students are shut away from the outside world in our offices or labs. It’s sometimes easy to forget that there is an outside […]
Making (Pretend) Friends with Scholars
Have you ever noticed how impersonal the process of citing another scholar is? Surname. Initials. Year of publication. It’s as if the ideas and findings you are citing just appeared […]
Your thesis in one sentence
We here at Thesislink have noticed a recent trend towards summing up complex doctoral theses as briefly as possible. Whether they are Dumbed-Down Theses or One-Sentence Theses, these are dissertations […]
Who are you writing for?
How many people will read your thesis? It’s the impossible question. A few examiners, at least. Your supervisors. Is that all? Maybe a devoted spouse or family member? Possibly one […]