The Best ‘Bad’ Academic Advice I Ever Received
I had a fantastically eccentric English teacher in secondary school. She dressed like she’d just stepped off the catwalk at the Wearable Art Awards, all swirling colours and structural hats. […]
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We Review ‘Semantic Scholar’: An AI-Powered Literature Searching Tool
Semantic Scholar is a free literature search tool developed by the Allen Institute of AI (nicknamed AI2), a non-profit research institute. It has had a meteoric rise to prominence recently. […]
‘Pick n Mix’ Research Upskilling Next Week
Got some time to learn new things next week? The Research Bazaar 2020 ‘Pick n Mix’ edition is on, and offers lots of sessions for researchers wanting to learn about […]
One More Chance for the Research Accelerator
If you were thinking of signing up for the Research Accelerator programme (but the deadline flew by too quickly) you’ll be pleased to know that we’re keeping applications open for […]
Making Strategic Use of Your Acknowledgements Section
Editor’s note: This post was first published in October 2020; references to the AUT Postgraduate Handbook have since been updated for the 2022 edition. The acknowledgements section of a thesis […]
7 Insights into the Mind of a Thesis Examiner
When you’re gearing up to submit your thesis, it’s natural to wonder about the examiners. While the examination criteria for master’s and doctoral theses are spelt out in black and […]
How Can You Capitalise on Your ‘Hidden Work’?
During some recent idle file-browsing, I stumbled upon some writings from my undergraduate days. Nothing earth-shattering: just a few ten-year-old assignments that I’d forgotten about. I almost moved past them, […]
Throwback Thursday: Conducting ‘ELITE’ Interviews
This post by Robyn Kannemeyer first appeared on Thesislink in November 2016. For my master’s research I interviewed a very diverse group of people but the people I was most […]
Throwback Thursday: The Art of the Thesis Title
This post first appeared on Thesislink in April 2017. Imagine you’re a journalist, and you’ve been asked to write a headline for a news story about the opening of a […]
How Did You Restrategize Your COVID-Affected Research?
As of now, COVID-19 has infected over 16 million people worldwide, and resulted in over 650,000 deaths. The pandemic has squashed economies, kept families apart, and caused countless people to […]
How I Learned to Create Science Communication Videos on my Smartphone
Editor’s note: In this article, Scott writes about a workshop series he attended through the Science Media Centre. The workshop series is on again soon, and if you’re fast, you […]
When Writing Gets ‘Overdone’
The best technique for making muffins seems counterintuitive. You combine your dry ingredients in one bowl, and your wet ingredients in another. In their separate bowls, you can mix the […]