Social media: a great place for baby pictures, unwanted game invitations, cat memes, and… communicating research? Image by Yogi Inji, used with permission Sure there are professional/social media hybrid sites, […]
Postgraduate research is so, so specific. Your research might be about the physics of the movement of bees’ wings in flight. Or security protocols for cloud storage providers. Or the […]
As Albert Einstein so aptly put it, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”. Sometimes we can become so bogged down in the detail that […]
Earlier this week, we wrote about keeping current with the latest research in your field using social media. But how can you get the word out about your own research […]
I recently learnt that the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) has Doctoral students all over New Zealand. At first I was surprised but I quickly realised that with the variety […]
There are certain times in our life when we need to have a difficult conversation with someone and it can be hard to know how to approach that conversation, especially […]
If you are currently feeling stressed you may decide not to read this post but if you do then you might learn some useful tips on how to reframe your […]
Imagine this scenario – you need information and you start to write a formal email but you don’t know the person or organisation to which you are writing. How do […]
