PG Week: Communicating Complex Research at the Symposium
If you are presenting at the PG Symposium on Friday, you’re probably busy memorising your main talking points, finalising your slides, and rehearsing in front of the mirror. You may […]
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PG Week Welcome Breakfast 2017
This morning we kicked off PG Week 2017 with a delicious breakfast and a lot of food for thought. The speaker at this year’s welcome breakfast was Dr Jesse Pirini. […]
Try Out a Peer Mentoring Group
Did you know that there is a network of peer mentoring groups for postgraduate students at AUT? These are groups that meet up to support one another, give and receive […]
What Do You Wish Your Supervisor/s Knew?
While most supervisors are willing to have an honest chat here and there, it can be hard to be completely honest. Let’s face it: supervisors have a lot of power, […]
The Value of Talking to Family & Friends about your Research
Postgraduate research is so, so specific. Your research might be about the physics of the movement of bees’ wings in flight. Or security protocols for cloud storage providers. Or the […]
Explaining a difficult concept
As Albert Einstein so aptly put it, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”. Sometimes we can become so bogged down in the detail that […]
Throwback Thursday: Preparing for the AUT 3MT Competition
This post by Jesse Pirini, past 3MT winner, first appeared on Thesislink in 2012. Jesse is now a postdoctoral fellow, and will give a talk at the PG Week Welcome […]
What Makes a Great Poster?
Posters are a common form of research communication, particularly in STEM fields. They’re effective, they’re fun to browse at conferences, and they don’t require any public speaking. Yay! They can […]
PG Symposium Abstracts Due Friday
If you would like to present your research at the Postgraduate Symposium on 18 August, it’s time to hustle – you have 3 more days to get your abstract in! […]
Sharing Your Research Online
Earlier this week, we wrote about keeping current with the latest research in your field using social media. But how can you get the word out about your own research […]
Using Social Media to Stay Current
Typically, for a research project, you start with lots of reading, then move to collecting and analysing data, then writing up results. The problem with this is that, in the […]
Get Your Entries in for PG Week Events!
We’re leading up to the hottest time on the postgrad calendar here at AUT. Postgraduate Week is happening on 14-18 August, and now is the time to prepare your entries […]