If you’re interested in postgraduate research, you might be interested in the Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) Conference in Adelaide, South Australia, from 20-22 April 2016. It’s the longest-running conference […]
I used to look at samples of academic CVs and sigh wistfully, thinking mine could never look so bountiful. As a mid-project PhD student, my academic CV contained abstracts for […]
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 […]
This post by Professor Elaine Rush first appeared here on Thesislink in 2013 The human body is the most amazing creation and how and why it works as it does […]
Regular Thesislink readers may remember that there are several peer groups open to postgrad students at AUT. Well if you’re doing quantitative research, you’re in luck – there’s a new […]
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 […]
We hope you’ve had a relaxing summer… it’s been an interesting one, weather-wise. But we got enough sunny days to witness this moment of heat-beating Kiwi ingenuity: Now that 2016 […]
This is the last day of the AUT university year for 2015, so Thesislink is signing off until January. From all the team at the University Postgraduate Centre, we wish […]
If you’re a research student, particularly on a longer programme like the doctorate, it can be unclear where the lines of “work time” and “holiday time” are drawn. Sometimes, “work […]
My thesis will be bound in navy blue. It’s not finished yet, but I’ve already decided. Navy blue cover, elegant silver lettering, my name in full on the front. The […]
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 […]
This post by Dr Jennie Billot first appeared here on Thesislink in 2012 Wisker, Robinson and Shacham, (2007) suggest that “All research is a dialogue with others” (p. 304) and […]
