The Value of Talking to Family & Friends about your Research
Postgraduate research is so, so specific. Your research might be about the physics of the movement of bees’ wings in flight. Or security protocols for cloud storage providers. Or the […]
Pro Tips for Opening a Thesis Chapter
A thesis is a long and complex document that often presents very difficult and challenging ideas. Breaking those ideas down into easily digestible chunks – i.e. chapters – will help […]
Explaining a difficult concept
As Albert Einstein so aptly put it, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”. Sometimes we can become so bogged down in the detail that […]
Books For and About Postgrads
Whether you’re considering enrolling for postgrad study, or you’re several years into a postgrad research project, there are resources out there to help you through each stage of your postgrad […]
Last Days to be in to Win Great Prizes at 3MT
Entries for the AUT 3 Minute Thesis competition close on Monday, people! That means you have just one weekend to get your entry form in. You can find lots more […]
Throwback Thursday: Preparing for the AUT 3MT Competition
This post by Jesse Pirini, past 3MT winner, first appeared on Thesislink in 2012. Jesse is now a postdoctoral fellow, and will give a talk at the PG Week Welcome […]
What Makes a Great Poster?
Posters are a common form of research communication, particularly in STEM fields. They’re effective, they’re fun to browse at conferences, and they don’t require any public speaking. Yay! They can […]
PG Symposium Abstracts Due Friday
If you would like to present your research at the Postgraduate Symposium on 18 August, it’s time to hustle – you have 3 more days to get your abstract in! […]
Sharing Your Research Online
Earlier this week, we wrote about keeping current with the latest research in your field using social media. But how can you get the word out about your own research […]
Using Social Media to Stay Current
Typically, for a research project, you start with lots of reading, then move to collecting and analysing data, then writing up results. The problem with this is that, in the […]
Crafting your PG Symposium presentation
If you’ve heeded our call to enter the PG Symposium, you might be wondering how to go about preparing your presentation. At last years’ Symposium, we asked some of the […]
Get Your Entries in for PG Week Events!
We’re leading up to the hottest time on the postgrad calendar here at AUT. Postgraduate Week is happening on 14-18 August, and now is the time to prepare your entries […]