Articles, tips, and notices for postgraduate research students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and beyond.
We first featured this post from Julia Hallas in 2013. This post features in our top 5 posts, found in the footer of the new design. If you’re experiencing procrastination, […]
Let me give you a scenario. You are out to dinner with friends and their partners, making small talk waiting for the food to arrive. Someone’s partner leans over to […]
I remember once submitting an undergraduate ethics essay that I was really proud of. I had researched it thoroughly. I had expressed my ideas (I thought) elegantly. It was tightly […]
Good news! We have an exciting new Thesislink design coming on Monday. Here are some features you can look forward to: a more visually dynamic magazine-style layout on the homepage […]
You may remember a couple of months ago we let you know about the Falling Walls competition, where innovative researchers and professionals compete to demonstrate the revolutionary power of their […]
The deadline for entries to the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition is coming up tomorrow. The basic idea of 3MT is that you have 3 minutes and one slide to […]
I just got back from a higher education conference in Australia. Along with a colleague, I had a full peer-reviewed paper accepted to the conference, and gave a 30-minute presentation […]
This article by Dr David Parker first appeared here on Thesislink in 2012. John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, diplomat, and public intellectual, was renowned for the clarity of his writing. Using […]
The number of scholarly articles in existence is estimated at over 50 million, with more published every year. Add to that the millions of books, videos, non-scholarly publications, and other […]
Editor’s note: this article, published in 2016, makes reference to a previous edition of the AUT Postgraduate Handbook that is now out of date. The most recent edition can be […]
Ah, the international academic conference. Home to heavy-hitting scholars, catering spreads of varying quality, and intimidated postgrad students giving their first major presentations. When I went to my first international […]
If you’ve ever thought about publishing, you’ve probably heard all about impact factors. Here’s how they work: the impact factor of a journal measures how often an average article within […]
