Teaching Assistants’ Workshop Auckland University of Technology, (offered by) Learning and Teaching Unit There is a scene in a Harry Potter film where Severus Snape acts as replacement teacher for […]

Author: Julia Hallas, Doctoral Candidate Do you ever sit down to study and find that you’re just too tired to write? If you’re anything like me, this can lead to […]

Author: Dr Lyn Lavery, Director, Academic Consulting (www.academic-consulting.co.nz) A recent post on the NVivo blog reminded me of how useful I find models, diagrams, and visual maps in my research and […]

Author: Dr Jennie Billot So you are ‘writing up’ the thesis… and it might appear to be a huge task. While each chapter may seem to be complete, the gaps […]

Author: Julia Hallas, Doctoral Candidate “There is nothing more to be said on this subject. Nothing”. (McCall Smith 2003, p.11, cited in Murray, 2005) There is nothing better than finding […]

We all do it. We all let our minds drift from our thesis when we shouldn’t. We have our eyes dutifully glued to our books / data / computers, when […]

Author: Nikki Mandow Sometimes over the last 18 months I have wondered whether I would ever finish my thesis. But all things do come to an end. Word of advice: […]

Author: Jule Kunkel As I was going into my toolbox for some inspiration on words, I thought this toolbox might be beneficial to the other students as well? Cheers, Jule

Author: Nikki Mandow Discussions at this retreat have reminded me about the importance of a critical friend. My post-grad experience has tended to be one of frustrating aloneness with my […]

Author: Abhimanyu Singh Garhwal This is an online freely available 8 week course by Stanford University US for improving your writing ability: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Medicine/SciWrite/Fall2013/about. be happy Abhimanyu