Articles, tips, and notices for postgraduate research students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and beyond.
Ashleigh AIi returns to her homeland, Kurdistan next week for a couple of months. Before she left, I spoke to her about life as a postgraduate student at AUT (Auckland […]
Another productive UPC writing retreat has come to a close. From 30 August to 2 September, a group of Masters students enjoyed the tranquility of Vaughan Park Retreat Centre as […]
Thank you and congratulations to all of you who presented your research at the PG Symposium and/or 3MT last Thursday. There were a record number of presentations this year from […]
Yesterday, at the close of the PG Symposium, a large crowd gathered to watch the finals of the Masters and Doctoral 3 Minute Thesis competition. Three Masters students and eight […]
Let me give you a scenario. You are out to dinner with friends and their partners, making small talk waiting for the food to arrive. Someone’s partner leans over to […]
You may remember a couple of months ago we let you know about the Falling Walls competition, where innovative researchers and professionals compete to demonstrate the revolutionary power of their […]
Research students at AUT have an opportunity to have their say in a survey about to be released. Let us know what you think – click here to read more […]
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 […]
Next Thursday 4th / Friday 5th February, AUT is hosting the NZ Internet Research Forum. If you’re researching anything to do with digital or virtual worlds, you’ll want to be […]
How’s this for a happy bunch of post-grads? ‘The Club’ doctoral group has now been running out South for almost two years. Here is a photo of that last meeting […]
The final writers’ retreat for 2015 was held on Nov 2-5 at Vaughan Park in Long Bay. Vaughan Park was beautiful as always, the beach provided an excellent spot for […]
Last week we profiled a doctoral student group at South campus that’s getting people out of their offices and into good company. Well, great news! Now there are four more […]
