Learn on your Lunch Break
In a postgrad research programme your whole job is about learning: learning from others’ research, learning from your own research, and helping others to learn. But typically, all that learning […]
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New Website for AUT Postgrad Researchers
If you are an AUT student, you may have already started using the Student Digital Workspace (SDW). The idea behind the SDW is that it puts all the info you […]
Using Social Media to Communicate your Research
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, […]
Mega Resources from the Database Collection
AUT’s Library organises licences to all sorts of academic databases for AUT staff and students. This gives us full access to some of the best research resources in the world. […]
Throwback Thursday: Creating visual maps, diagrams and models
This post by Dr Lyn Lavery, Director of Academic Consulting, first appeared on Thesislink in June 2014. A recent post on the NVivo blog reminded me of how useful I […]
Using Statistics NZ Data
Statistics New Zealand is the government department charged with collecting data on New Zealand and New Zealanders. They handle the national census every five years, and they track information on […]
Find PG Docs at the New “AUT Resources” Page
There’s a lot to keep track of when you’re a PG student. Let us help make your life a little bit easier by keeping all your commonly-used documents in one […]
Using Social Media to Stay Current
Typically, for a research project, you start with lots of reading, then move to collecting and analysing data, then writing up results. The problem with this is that, in the […]