How Do You Define “Success” in PG Research?
As an undergraduate, you know if you’re doing well. Every semester, in every paper, you get multiple reminders: this essay is a C+ or that exam was an A-. I […]
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CfP: Conference on International Education
The 7th Biennial CRIE (Centre for Research in International Education) Conference is coming up in Auckland in January next year. If you’re in the field and keen to get a […]
A Day in the Life of a Postgraduate Humanities Researcher [Video]
Humanities researchers study the human experience via culture, psychology, sociology, gender, religion, history, law, and so much more. The humanities encompass everything from Chaucer to flying saucers; from Sigmund Freud […]
What Does it Take to Succeed on the International Stage at 3MT?
Kudakwashe Tuwe represented AUT at the 3 Minute Thesis Trans-Tasman Finals in Brisbane on 2 October. Tuwe competed in a field of 50 university finalists from around Australia, New Zealand, […]
3 Cool and Unexpected Tech-Based Research Tools
Each discipline has its methodological traditions. If you’re in the humanities, you’ll probably work with qualitative methods. If you’re in the sciences, it’s probably quantitative methods for you. But more […]
A Day in the Life of a Postgraduate Science Researcher [Video]
A lot of the time, we postgrad students are shut away from the outside world in our offices or labs. It’s sometimes easy to forget that there is an outside […]
Making (Pretend) Friends with Scholars
Have you ever noticed how impersonal the process of citing another scholar is? Surname. Initials. Year of publication. It’s as if the ideas and findings you are citing just appeared […]
Getting to the finish line
By Dr Lyn Lavery The end of the year will soon be upon us and many of you will be racing towards the finish line of your thesis. Even if […]
3MT Finals – watch online
During PG Week in August, Kudakwashe Tuwe took the title of AUT’s Doctoral 3 Minute Thesis winner. Now Tuwe is preparing to compete against other university winners at the Trans-Tasman […]
Your thesis in one sentence
We here at Thesislink have noticed a recent trend towards summing up complex doctoral theses as briefly as possible. Whether they are Dumbed-Down Theses or One-Sentence Theses, these are dissertations […]
Literature reviews: NVivo can help
By Dr Lyn Lavery Conducting a literature review is a central part of the academic research journey, particularly if you’re writing a thesis or dissertation. A literature review provides the […]
Would you like to lead a peer mentoring group?
Are you undertaking postgraduate research? Do you see yourself as a potential leader? Are you keen to meet other postgrad research students? AUT is currently seeking leaders for postgraduate peer […]