Is Statistical Significance on the Way Out?
Hold on to your hats, quantitative researchers. Last week, a trio of scientists wrote a piece in the Comments section of Nature arguing that the concept of statistical significance should […]
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Respecting and Revitalising Languages in Your Research
AUT’s Professor Tania Ka‘ai is the Director of Te Ipukarea, the National Māori Language Institute, and Te Whare o Rongomaurikura, The International Centre for Language Revitalisation. She works on projects […]
8 Upcoming Events for Qualitative Researchers
If you’re a qualitative researcher, now is a great time to be at AUT. We have lots of workshops and events coming up for you over the next few weeks, […]
Throwback Thursday: Your Mega Academic Acronyms Glossary
This post from the Graduate Research School was first published in February 2016. We have updated it to make it current for 2019. Universities are enormous institutions. Academia as […]
Making the Most of Your Presentation Material
When striving to secure interview participants from some of New Zealand’s largest and most well-known manufacturers, I found it remarkably helpful to draw on material prepared for previous poster presentations, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]