A ‘cautionary tale’ of a person unexpectedly finding his thesis was for sale while searching Google appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education on 25 July, 2012.   “A Google search […]

Over the years I’ve been involved with post-graduate research I’ve heard many horror stories of lost files. Computers get stolen, or crash. Memory sticks get lost, or even broken. External […]

Check out this great blog post on a topic that challenges many researchers.  There are also links to two relevant papers. Click on the link provided: http://thesiswhisperer.com/2012/07/26/theory-anxiety/

The standard advice for some years has been to not include a photo on your CV. Why? Because although you are sending your CV in the hope of getting a […]

You are may be very busy concentrating on your research, perhaps undertaking data collection or writing a chapter of the thesis, but how about considering writing a paper? It can […]

This is the thing I hear most often. It can be tough for PhD students to stay above the poverty line– travel can seem way out of reach. There are […]

The short answers to get organized. The longer answer goes like this. Time – you never have enough of it.  So how can you make the most of it? There […]

I fell out of love with Endnote when it corrupted my PhD Proposal Word file to such an extent that every citation went in as four incomprehensible lines of field […]

It’s always a challenge to narrow the topic focus for research, since the more we read, the wider it seems to get!  However, once we have sorted out the boundaries […]

When you are writing a thesis or a dissertation, there is always someone else in the room with you. Or, at least, I believe there should be. That person is […]

For those of you taking a well deserved break from your research, here are a few interesting events taking place around Auckland: New Zealand Opera presents “Rigoletto” by Verdi. This […]