Got your PGR9 or Oral Exam Coming Up?
If you are staring down the barrel of a major doctoral milestone (i.e. a PGR9 confirmation of candidature or an oral exam), you might like to know that there is […]
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Beating the Post-Holiday Blues
The holidays are over. The sun still shines outside, but we can’t bask in it. The water at the beach is still warm, but we can’t swim in it. Instead […]
Plan Your Development in 2019
Now that we are all back and (hopefully) rested, it’s a great time to reflect on how far you’ve come as a researcher in 2018 and plan how you’re going […]
Throwback Thursday: The Value of Talking to Family & Friends about your Research
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in July 2017. We chose it for Throwback Thursday to help anyone who may be facing a lot of curious […]
10 Quirky Academic Gift Ideas
With the season of shopping and consumerism now upon us, we’ve started thinking about gifts that will satisfy and delight the academics in our lives. You may like to pick […]
Boost Your Concentration with these Free Resources
There are times in every research student’s life when you’ve just got to buckle down and get $%*t done. When you need to go hard, distractions are your worst enemy. […]
Writers’ Retreat November 2018
Twenty deserving students have recently returned from the latest Graduate Research School Postgraduate Writers’ Retreat at Vaughan Park in Long Bay. The group stayed at the retreat from 5-8 November, […]
Excel Tricks for Researchers
If you use Excel for storing and reporting on your data, you are probably already a capable user. However, there are a few tricks that can make your data shine […]
Throwback Thursday: Writing for your Discipline
This post first appeared on Thesislink in March 2015. We’ve chosen a post about writing for today’s Throwback Thursday in honour of those of you starting your November #acwrimo challenge […]
Academic Laughs for Halloween
On this, the scariest day of the year (except, obviously, thesis submission day), let us reflect on the ghosts and ghouls of academia. From the creepy decades-old marginalia in dusty […]
Get Writing with #AcWriMo this November
If you’re currently looking to delve deeply into your thesis writing, then your timing is impeccable. November is #AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month), a time when academic writers band together online […]
When to Skim-Read and When to Deep-Read
Have you ever gone on an article downloading spree? It’s great – it’s like online shopping for academics. Only instead of drinking too much wine and overspending on TradeMe, you […]