Throwback Thursday: Your Mega Academic Acronyms Glossary
This post from the Graduate Research School was first published in February 2016. We have updated it to make it current for 2019. Universities are enormous institutions. Academia as […]
Making the Most of Your Presentation Material
When striving to secure interview participants from some of New Zealand’s largest and most well-known manufacturers, I found it remarkably helpful to draw on material prepared for previous poster presentations, […]
Criticising vs Critiquing
I don’t like confrontation. Don’t like stepping on toes. I don’t complain when I get bad service, and even in the anonymity of the internet, I don’t leave negative reviews […]
Writer’s Retreat: How I Wrote 5000 Words in 3.5 Days
Got the opportunity to go for the Graduate Research School’s Writer’s Retreat?? GO FOR IT! Want to know why? Well here’s why you must take this brilliant opportunity! I am […]
Got your PGR9 or Oral Exam Coming Up?
If you are staring down the barrel of a major doctoral milestone (i.e. a PGR9 confirmation of candidature or an oral exam), you might like to know that there is […]
Beating the Post-Holiday Blues
The holidays are over. The sun still shines outside, but we can’t bask in it. The water at the beach is still warm, but we can’t swim in it. Instead […]
Plan Your Development in 2019
Now that we are all back and (hopefully) rested, it’s a great time to reflect on how far you’ve come as a researcher in 2018 and plan how you’re going […]
Happy Holidays from Thesislink!
This is the last official week of the year for AUT. Most buildings and services will close for a three-week break from Saturday 15th December. (Check out our write-up of […]
Throwback Thursday: The Value of Talking to Family & Friends about your Research
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in July 2017. We chose it for Throwback Thursday to help anyone who may be facing a lot of curious […]
10 More Auckland Summer Activities (for Student Budgets)
Around this time last year, we published a list of 10 Auckland Summer Activities (for Student Budgets). Quite a few of you loved the ideas and asked for more. So […]
10 Quirky Academic Gift Ideas
With the season of shopping and consumerism now upon us, we’ve started thinking about gifts that will satisfy and delight the academics in our lives. You may like to pick […]
Boost Your Concentration with these Free Resources
There are times in every research student’s life when you’ve just got to buckle down and get $%*t done. When you need to go hard, distractions are your worst enemy. […]