Diversity Week: What is diversity in academia?
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 […]
Diversity Week: 10 – 14 August 2015
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 […]
Fieldwork Fails
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 […]
Can “Eureka” Moments be Manufactured?
Thomas Edison famously said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Funnily enough, that is exactly the calculation I have made of my doctoral research. 99% is: reading dense […]
Events for Pacific Researchers
Talanoa Series Through the magic of videoconferencing, Pacific researchers from many different institutions and organisations hold regular virtual meetings in an initiative called the Talanoa Series. Twice a month, researchers […]
New Writing Guides Available
While many postgraduate students are confident writers, some writing tasks still provide their own specific challenges. There are certain pieces of work which take any postgraduate writer out of the […]
Asia Savvy New Zealand Asia Conference 2015
Would you like to represent AUT at the Asia Savvy New Zealand Asia Conference 2015? Saturday 29 August 2015 9.30AM – 8.30PM (meals included) Owen G Glenn Building, University of […]
The Myth of the Perfect Postgrad
Do you judge everything you do against some imagined ideal? Do you hold yourself to impossibly high standards? Do you experience guilt at every moment of your life? If you […]
Beating Presentation Stage Fright
The deadline for 3 Minute Thesis applications is coming up next Friday 24th July. (What’s 3 Minute Thesis, you ask? It’s a competition you should enter! Go here to find […]
2015 AUT University Postgraduate Centre e-Newsletters
The AUT University Postgraduate Centre distributes a monthly e-newsletter detailing upcoming conferences, forums and events, workshops and writing retreats and other support available for postgraduate students. Have you missed an […]
Double Duty Mantras
I noticed something recently. A lot of academic wisdom can have multiple meanings. Things that we are told to do in our research can apply to surviving our research as […]
Calling all Masters students!
Calling all Masters students! There’s a writing retreat coming up in September and now is the time to think about applying. This is a great opportunity to nab four days […]