Articles, tips, and notices for postgraduate research students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and beyond.
This post by Scott Pilkington first appeared on Thesislink in May 2020. Some information and links have been updated in this version. Generally, when I sit down to write something […]
Every so often, during my masters & doctoral research, I’d have what (in retrospect) was a crisis of faith. I’d take a step back, think about my research as a […]
Generally, when I sit down to write something new – whether that be my thesis or a blog post – it feels huge and daunting. I just don’t know how […]
Right now, along with several other countries around the world, Aotearoa is in lockdown and people are confined to their own homes. Maintaining motivation to work on your research can […]
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in March 2015. Despite all the writers who write about writing, there are still a few things that I think […]
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in July 2015. It’s easy to get bogged down in the stress of a big research project. So today, Thesislink […]
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 […]
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 […]
This post by Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in May 2014. We all do it. We all let our minds drift from our thesis when we shouldn’t. We […]
Procrastination means ‘belonging to tomorrow’. So when you delay writing today, you are creating more work for tomorrow. Unfortunately this delay creates a gap between your intention and your action. […]
Writing a thesis is like running a marathon, right? Jeez, how many times have we heard that? (Answer: lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of times.) I’ve […]
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 […]
