Articles, tips, and notices for postgraduate research students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and beyond.
Kudakwashe Tuwe represented AUT at the 3 Minute Thesis Trans-Tasman Finals in Brisbane on 2 October. Tuwe competed in a field of 50 university finalists from around Australia, New Zealand, […]
Each discipline has its methodological traditions. If you’re in the humanities, you’ll probably work with qualitative methods. If you’re in the sciences, it’s probably quantitative methods for you. But more […]
A lot of the time, we postgrad students are shut away from the outside world in our offices or labs. It’s sometimes easy to forget that there is an outside […]
Have you ever noticed how impersonal the process of citing another scholar is? Surname. Initials. Year of publication. It’s as if the ideas and findings you are citing just appeared […]
By Dr Lyn Lavery The end of the year will soon be upon us and many of you will be racing towards the finish line of your thesis. Even if […]
This post by Shari Hearne (Associate University Librarian, Digital Information Services) first appeared here on Thesislink in 2012 A ‘cautionary tale’ of a person unexpectedly finding his thesis was for sale while […]
During PG Week in August, Kudakwashe Tuwe took the title of AUT’s Doctoral 3 Minute Thesis winner. Now Tuwe is preparing to compete against other university winners at the Trans-Tasman […]
We here at Thesislink have noticed a recent trend towards summing up complex doctoral theses as briefly as possible. Whether they are Dumbed-Down Theses or One-Sentence Theses, these are dissertations […]
The Centre for Learning and Teaching (CfLAT) is kindly hosting a Sustainability Learning and Teaching Forum which is being developed in collaboration with the Vice Chancellor’s Taskforce for Sustainability. When: Thursday […]
By Dr Lyn Lavery Conducting a literature review is a central part of the academic research journey, particularly if you’re writing a thesis or dissertation. A literature review provides the […]
Are you undertaking postgraduate research? Do you see yourself as a potential leader? Are you keen to meet other postgrad research students? AUT is currently seeking leaders for postgraduate peer […]
If you didn’t get to see all the presentations at the PG Symposium or 3MT, never fear. They are all online for viewing now! Check them out here. Each presentation […]
