Articles, tips, and notices for postgraduate research students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and beyond.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OK, it’s Friday, we’re all tired and in need of a pick-me-up. What better to lift our spirits than a round-up of the assorted cute fluffy friends who have played […]
We at the GRS are counting down the hours now until our biggest day of the year! The AUT Postgraduate Research Symposium is on tomorrow, Friday 17 August, on the […]
