Five Hundred Pounds: Research and Socioeconomic Privilege
The writer Virginia Woolf famously said that in order to write, all a woman needed was “a room of her own and five hundred a year.” Woolf was making a […]
Research
Happy Easter Break
Happy Easter Thesislinkers! If you’re at AUT, bear in mind that Friday 25th, Sunday 27th, Monday 28th, and Tuesday 29th March are all holidays for us. The libraries will have […]
The Science of Mental Focus
The other night, exhausted from a day of taxing thesis writing and mentally fried, I collapsed on the couch. In my half-dead state, my brain was mulling how on earth […]
Qualitative & Mixed Methods Webinars
Are you interested in learning more about qualitative or mixed methods? The University of Alberta’s International Institute for Qualitative Methodology is running two series of free webinars in 2016. The […]
Digital Tools for Research
Computers: they’re such a core part of the research process, that it’s hard to believe anyone ever looked things up like this: Most of us have gotten used to the […]
How to Handle a Withering Critique
“If you’ve never cried before, during, or after a meeting with your advisor, something is amiss.” – Dr Karen Kelsky of The Professor Is In When I signed up […]
In Defence of Occasional Desk Jobs
Have you had to fill out a form recently? Given that you’re reading this blog, I’d guess that you’re involved in some way with tertiary study. And given that you’re […]
Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference – Sponsorship Available
If you’re interested in postgraduate research, you might be interested in the Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) Conference in Adelaide, South Australia, from 20-22 April 2016. It’s the longest-running conference […]
Your Academic Credentials Are Better Than You Think
I used to look at samples of academic CVs and sigh wistfully, thinking mine could never look so bountiful. As a mid-project PhD student, my academic CV contained abstracts for […]
Your Mega Academic Acronyms Glossary: Save this Page!
Universities are enormous institutions. Academia as a whole is mammoth. Like any large group of people, academics have invented thousands of confusing, overlapping, and rarely explained acronyms. For those entering […]
Throwback Thursday: My research journey – Follow your heart….
This post by Professor Elaine Rush first appeared here on Thesislink in 2013 The human body is the most amazing creation and how and why it works as it does […]
New Quantitative Methodology Discussion Group
Regular Thesislink readers may remember that there are several peer groups open to postgrad students at AUT. Well if you’re doing quantitative research, you’re in luck – there’s a new […]