The Value of Finding your PhD Tribe
I’ve just come back from a gathering of 80 Māori and indigenous PhD students at Puketeraki Marae at Karitāne in North Otago. We’re all members of a national PhD scholars’ […]
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Learn on your Lunch Break
In a postgrad research programme your whole job is about learning: learning from others’ research, learning from your own research, and helping others to learn. But typically, all that learning […]
Throwback Thursday: Employability Strategies for Graduates
This post by Robyn Kannemeyer first appeared on Thesislink in November 2016. You may be close to submitting your thesis but have you thought about what happens next? How will […]
Pacific Post-Doctoral and Emerging Researcher Showcase
Warm Pacific Greetings! We would like to invite you to an inaugural fono on current Pacific research in Health and Environmental Sciences. It is an opportunity to connect and learn […]
AUT Postgraduate Research Symposium & 3MT TOMORROW!
The time has come, friends. The AUT Postgraduate Research Symposium & 3MT competition finals are on TOMORROW on the city campus. If you haven’t already done so, be sure to […]
Thank You: An Open Letter to PG Supporters
To anyone who has ever supported a research student, When someone you love tells you that they have decided to do a masters or doctorate, they are indirectly asking you […]
Call for Abstracts Extended – 2019 Postgraduate Research Symposium
Closing dates extended to Friday 28 June 2019 If you ran out of time to enter the 3MT competition or 2019 Postgraduate Research Symposium, we have good news – you […]
Last Week to Enter the PG Research Symposium & 3MT
Time is ticking by, researchers! This Friday 21st June is the deadline for entries to the 2019 AUT Postgraduate Research Symposium and 3 Minute Thesis competition. Check out the PG […]
Tertiary Teaching in NZ: Work Conditions 101
If you’ve been following the news, you’ll be aware that primary and secondary school teachers went on a ‘mega-strike’ recently to protest against their pay and working conditions. Given that […]
Throwback Thursday: Where to Find your PhD Support Group
This post by Dr Julia Hallas first appeared on Thesislink in May 2014. A network of Research Students Peer Groups has since been started at AUT – see the RSPG […]
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 […]
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 […]