Articles, tips, and notices for postgraduate research students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and beyond.
If your thesis involves technical or scientific writing in engineering, science, computing, mathematics, linguistics, philosophy, or humanities, you might be interested to learn more about LaTeX. Luckily, the AUT Library […]
We first featured this post from Dr Philippa Smith in 2013 Last year I was part of a panel at the AUT writers’ retreat in Long Bay where we were […]
Quality-checking sources is something we start to learn in secondary school or undergrad – just ask my students who felt my wrath when they cited Wikipedia (or what’s worse: when […]
Research students at AUT have an opportunity to have their say in a survey about to be released. Let us know what you think – click here to read more […]
So you have a hypothesis. You’re really excited about it. You’d love it to be true. You can’t wait to explore it in full detail and spend months or years […]
It’s a busy time in the academic calendar… the year’s research has well and truly kicked off, and ideas are buzzing. There are lots of exciting international opportunities for postgrads […]
On Wednesday evening, around sixty enthusiastic researchers braved the weather to attend the PG Mix & Mingle on the Akoranga campus. Seven postgraduate students presented their research with posters and […]
By Julia Hallas, PhD Candidate “Never use references that are older than three years” was the advice given by a journal article reviewer I went along to hear recently. Yet […]
We first featured this post from Dr Lyn Lavery, Director, Academic Consulting in 2013 Research questions (RQs) are a central part of the research process. They should be clear, researchable, and […]
If your research has anything to do with museums, listen up! The University of Auckland is hosting a special Graduate Research Symposium in conjunction with an upcoming conference. Graduate students […]
We are thrilled to announce the completion of another successful UPC Postgraduate Writers’ Retreat at Vaughan Park, Long Bay. The retreat took place from 18 to 21 April, offering an […]
I just performed a very unscientific study of thesis bibliographies. Of the last 5 doctoral theses published to ProQuest, there were an average of 333 entries per bibliography.* That’s an […]
