Articles, tips, and notices for postgraduate research students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and beyond.
Nature has recently released the results of its biggest ever survey of PhD students. More than 6,000 respondents from all over the world* answered questions about their job satisfaction, their […]
Four years ago, when I left Indonesia with my family to start my PhD in Auckland, I needed to adapt to a new culture, climate, and Western academic system. I […]
As an undergrad, it’s easily to communicate what you’re studying. You ‘major in’ a particular subject. You take courses that are prescribed for that major, you graduate with a degree […]
Dr. Ian Brailsford is a Learning Advisor at the University of Auckland, specialising in postgraduate research skills. This year’s FIFA World Cup marks the twentieth anniversary of my frantic efforts […]
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in February 2016. I used to look at samples of academic CVs and sigh wistfully, thinking mine could never […]
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in July 2015. Do you judge everything you do against some imagined ideal? Do you hold yourself to impossibly high […]
I passed my oral exam recently – woohoo! No more thesis tweaking! No more exam anxiety! Bring on the leisure reading! The experience of the exam was quite different from […]
This post first appeared here on Thesislink on 20 November 2014. The transcribe app is still available free but note that the prices for transcribing your data are in US dollars. Recently […]
This post is written by Arien Hielkema (pictured below) With the final months of your academic journey coming to a close, it is perhaps topical to talk about some key learnings […]
Ashleigh AIi returns to her homeland, Kurdistan next week for a couple of months. Before she left, I spoke to her about life as a postgraduate student at AUT (Auckland […]
We first featured this post from Julia Hallas in 2013. This post features in our top 5 posts, found in the footer of the new design. If you’re experiencing procrastination, […]
Have you had to fill out a form recently? Given that you’re reading this blog, I’d guess that you’re involved in some way with tertiary study. And given that you’re […]
