GRS COVID-19 Update August 25, 2020
Kia ora Graduate Research Students, We hope you are looking after yourself and your close ones. At the GRS, we know it can be challenging to stay up-to-date on the […]
Announcing the AUT 3MT Finals (and Finalists)!
Our 3 Minute Thesis contestants have honed their presentations and created their videos. At the pre-heats, judges narrowed down the field to our top 8 contestants. It was no easy […]
GRS Covid-19 Update August 17, 2020
Kia ora Graduate Students, The collective thoughts and attention of the team at GRS are with you all. GRS staff are all fully operational whilst working at home, from admissions […]
GRS Covid-19 Update August 12, 2020
Kia ora Graduate Students, I very recently communicated with you regarding how fortunate we are in Aotearoa to be relatively free from the disruption that this pandemic is wreaking internationally. […]
GRS Dean’s Update
Kia ora Graduate Students, Welcome back to semester 2. We are fortunate in Aotearoa to be back conducting day-to-day business within our borders relatively unencumbered by the ravages of the […]
Throwback Thursday: The Art of the Thesis Title
This post first appeared on Thesislink in April 2017. Imagine you’re a journalist, and you’ve been asked to write a headline for a news story about the opening of a […]
180 Seconds of Fascination – a Research Video Competition
Want to share your research with New Zealand? The Royal Society has a competition going at the moment for Early Career Researchers (including postgraduate research students) who wish to communicate […]
How Did You Restrategize Your COVID-Affected Research?
As of now, COVID-19 has infected over 16 million people worldwide, and resulted in over 650,000 deaths. The pandemic has squashed economies, kept families apart, and caused countless people to […]
How I Learned to Create Science Communication Videos on my Smartphone
Editor’s note: In this article, Scott writes about a workshop series he attended through the Science Media Centre. The workshop series is on again soon, and if you’re fast, you […]
PG Workshops On This Week
Need a little guidance or inspiration in your writing & research? We’ve got a packed schedule of postgraduate seminars and workshops on this week, both on campus and online. Here’s […]
When Writing Gets ‘Overdone’
The best technique for making muffins seems counterintuitive. You combine your dry ingredients in one bowl, and your wet ingredients in another. In their separate bowls, you can mix the […]
Journalling to Make Progress on Really Difficult Problems
I’ve been grappling with a Really Difficult Problem (RDP) on a project lately. You know the kind: necessary to deal with in order to make progress, but frustratingly complicated and […]