Scholarly Commons: What’s in it for you?
Are you dreaming about having finished your thesis? It’s been examined, you’ve made the required amendments, taken the copies to be bound and now you can have a well-earned rest, […]
Or Zotero for referencing
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 […]
Topic Synthesis – 3 minutes is all it takes!
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 […]
Who is your reader?
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 […]
Whats happening around Auckland?
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 […]
Registration issues resolved
We have now resolved the issue for those registering to Thesislink outside of AUT. Once again we apologise for any inconvenience caused!
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Registering with Thesislink
Technical hiccups are being experienced with those registering to Thesislink outside of AUT. We apologise for this inconvenience and will let you know once this has been resolved.
Ethics Help
In response to requests regarding applying for Ethical Review. For all applicants to the ethics committee, help is at hand. Firstly, the Frequently Asked Questions section of the Ethics Knowledge […]
Funding
For most people postgraduate study is expensive. Some will be lucky enough to gain funding from public research bodies or industry, but often masters and PhD students pay their own […]
Qualitative researchers no longer need to use highlighter pens, index cards, or even a pair of scissors to analyse their qualitative data!
NVivo is the most widely used qualitative data analysis package internationally, and is certainly the most popular choice amongst New Zealand researchers. With the advent of packages such as NVivo, we […]
Approaching the literature review
You probably believe that your research will be significant in contributing to knowledge in your field, but how can you support that belief? The challenge is to provide a solid […]