Writing as a Not-Quite-Yet-Expert
It is incredibly tricky to nail the genre of thesis-writing. Books are written about it. Learning Advisors specialise in it. Almost all research students struggle with it to some extent […]
Call for Abstracts Extended – 2019 Postgraduate Research Symposium
Closing dates extended to Friday 28 June 2019 If you ran out of time to enter the 3MT competition or 2019 Postgraduate Research Symposium, we have good news – you […]
Upcoming PG Writing Workshops
The written thesis is its own unique genre. It is a kind of academic writing, but it’s different to undergraduate essay writing; and different to academic journal writing, too. Part […]
Last Week to Enter the PG Research Symposium & 3MT
Time is ticking by, researchers! This Friday 21st June is the deadline for entries to the 2019 AUT Postgraduate Research Symposium and 3 Minute Thesis competition. Check out the PG […]
Tertiary Teaching in NZ: Work Conditions 101
If you’ve been following the news, you’ll be aware that primary and secondary school teachers went on a ‘mega-strike’ recently to protest against their pay and working conditions. Given that […]
Throwback Thursday: Where to Find your PhD Support Group
This post by Dr Julia Hallas first appeared on Thesislink in May 2014. A network of Research Students Peer Groups has since been started at AUT – see the RSPG […]
An English PhD-Holder Reviews Grammarly
I’ve been resistant to software text editing tools for a long time. Partly that’s because my PhD is in English, and editing text is something I already do reasonably well. […]
What Affects your PhD Completion Time?
Editor’s note: this article, published in 2019, makes reference to a previous edition of the AUT Postgraduate Handbook that is now out of date. The most recent edition can be […]
Want to be the AUTSA Postgrad Officer?
The AUT Students Association (AUTSA for short) is looking for a Postgraduate Officer for its Student Representative Council (SRC). The SRC is a great group of student reps who act […]
Opportunity for Conference Volunteering
Late last year, our staffer Scott Pilkington wrote about the great experience he had volunteering at a conference. Well if you were tempted to give it a go, here’s your […]
Do You Use Measurements in Your Research? Read This.
Well knock my socks off and file this under: ‘things I never thought about until I was a researcher.’ Today, the definitions of metric units (including the kilogram, second, and […]
Reflections of a Muslim Student 60 Days after New Zealand’s Darkest Day
This reflection was written by AUT PhD candidate Najmah Usman with her husband Kusnan Sayuti. On 15 March 2019, two mosques were attacked. 50 people died that day, with one […]