Being Confident (yet Cautious) in your Writing
The ideal academic writing ‘voice’ is very hard to pin down. It needs to be authoritative so as to garner readers’ respect, but also cautious to avoid making overblown claims. […]
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Throwback Thursday: The Science of Mental Focus
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in March 2016. The other night, exhausted from a day of taxing thesis writing and mentally fried, I collapsed […]
Decolonial Reading Group
Join us for some casual monthly reading and thinking centered on decolonial thought. Based on the following definition, we will discuss how decolonisation, as decoloniality in action, impacts our research, […]
Using Social Media to Communicate your Research
Social media: a great place for baby pictures, unwanted game invitations, cat memes, and… communicating research? Image by Yogi Inji, used with permission Sure there are professional/social media hybrid sites, […]
What Kind of Feedback do you Need?
Sending a thesis draft to your supervisors is always a bit scary. When you’ve invested your time, brainpower, and soul into a piece of writing, it’s hard to submit it […]
Mega Resources from the Database Collection
AUT’s Library organises licences to all sorts of academic databases for AUT staff and students. This gives us full access to some of the best research resources in the world. […]
Should You Call Yourself a ‘Student’?
Who do you picture when you hear the word ‘student’? Someone with their head down at the library? Someone diligently working away in a lab or classroom? Someone smiling in […]
Keyword Strategies for Google Scholar
We live in amazing times. With a few keystrokes, we can look up any information on any topic from almost any source. As scholars, we have access to even more; […]
New Action Research Group
Good news, action researchers! There is a new group called Action Research Connections based on the North Shore campus. For the uninitiated: action research (sometimes called participatory action research or […]
Qualitative Methodology Group
Meeting February 28, 2018 @ 12:30 pm Room WU 518, Graduate Research School (Auckland University of Technology) All Masters and doctoral students using qualitative methods are invited to meet once […]
Throwback Thursday – PhD Write-Away: A motivation booster and social bonding
This post by Sabrina Seeler, PhD Student at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), first appeared on Thesislink in October 2017. You may like to think about applying for one of […]
Doctoral Thesis Assessment Criteria
Editor’s note: this article, published in 2018, makes reference to a previous edition of the AUT Postgraduate Handbook that is now out of date. The most recent edition can be […]