Formulating the research question for your research is often a big challenge. I have just come across this blog post which has some useful ideas.  Click on this link to […]

Nathan raises some interesting questions about living in a networked society today and the effects social networking has on the way we socialise. However I suggest that we need to […]

Firstly, a special thanks to Dr Anna Tarrant for her wonderful article on blogging for academics. It got me thinking again about a passion of mine. Recently, when somebody asked […]

As an academic, I have been blogging for just over a year now (here) and have found it an immensely rewarding experience.I have written (‘blogged’) a lot about my social […]

This post is by Professor Elaine Rush who is a supervisor and Professor of Nutrition at AUT’s School of Sports and Recreation. She has been involved in health and education for […]

Last year I was part of a panel at the AUT writers’ retreat in Long Bay where we were asked to provide personal perspectives on our recent PhD experiences. One […]

So another year arrives and I am back in my office – mind you the sun beckons through the window and I am tempted to go outside and enjoy the […]

Thanks to PhD Comics The team here at Thesislink will be taking a break over the Christmas period, returning in January 2013. We would like to take the opportunity to […]

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Wisker, Robinson and Shacham, (2007) suggest that “All research is a dialogue with others” (p. 304) and that can mean a number of things. First, exchanging ideas with other students […]

“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can […]