PG Week: The PG Symposium is on now!
It’s been a great PG Week! We’ve had breakfast with a leading academic consultant, upped our skills with lots of workshops, and now we’re hearing about the latest research from […]
It’s been a great PG Week! We’ve had breakfast with a leading academic consultant, upped our skills with lots of workshops, and now we’re hearing about the latest research from […]
Tomorrow is the biggest day in the AUT postgrad calendar. It’s the annual PG Symposium! Can you tell we’re excited? The day will kick off at 9am in WG308. There […]
Those little letters “Dr” in front of someone’s name confer an awful lot of respectability. And so they should – anyone who has completed a PhD has proved themselves capable […]
No matter what your course of study, your postgraduate journey will leave you with knowledge and skills far wider than your subject area. Dr Lyn Lavery’s PhD is in Educational […]
Many of you will be well-sated, in body and mind, after this morning’s PG Breakfast with a fascinating talk by Dr Lyn Lavery of Academic Consulting Ltd. Lyn talked about […]
Get excited… next week is Postgraduate Week at AUT! Really, for those of us studying towards a postgrad qualification, every week is postgrad week. But the official PG Week is […]
It’s easy to think of diversity in terms of nice neat categories: ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, religion… But nobody can be reduced to one simple characteristic. Everybody has an ethnicity, […]
Obvious statement #1: Much research happens on university campuses. Obvious statement #2: University students represent a convenient source of human subjects for research purposes. Obvious statement #3: University student populations […]
Very few people admit to being racist, sexist, ageist, homophobic, or otherwise discriminatory. But even those who don’t feel hatred towards a particular group can still exhibit a bias. This […]
When a company references their “diversity plan,” they’re often talking about a plan to meet an ethnicity or gender quota among their staff or in their boardrooms. But diversity in […]
Great news, Thesislinkers… next week is Diversity Week at AUT! Every year, Diversity Week celebrates the great variety of students and staff at AUT. It’s about acknowledging and accepting people […]
Scientists are getting real on Twitter lately. If you haven’t done so already, check out the glory that is #fieldworkfail. There are stories of all kinds of fabulous, unfortunate, and […]