Midwinter Workshops: PG Training in July
Are you thinking of entering the 3MT competition or Postgraduate Research Symposium? Time to get moving! Entries for both close this Friday 5 July. It’s easy to enter for either […]
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Behind the Scenes at the Graduate Research School 3: Examinations
This is the third post in our series introducing you to the teams behind the scenes at GRS, focussing on the Examinations team. The Graduate Research School (GRS) Examinations team […]
Upcoming Workshops for the Rest of 2020
2020 is drawing slowly to a close (cue parades) and, while many of us have not been as productive or motivated as usual this year, we still have a few […]
My Experience with a Doctoral Thesis in Format Two
Editor’s note: this article, published in 2020, makes reference to a previous edition of the AUT Postgraduate Handbook that is now out of date. The most recent edition can be […]
Got your PGR9 or Oral Exam Coming Up?
If you are staring down the barrel of a major doctoral milestone (i.e. a PGR9 confirmation of candidature or an oral exam), you might like to know that there is […]
Doctoral Thesis Assessment Criteria
Editor’s note: this article, published in 2018, makes reference to a previous edition of the AUT Postgraduate Handbook that is now out of date. The most recent edition can be […]
Getting in the Mindset for the Oral Exam
So you’re scared of the oral exam. Who isn’t? It’s one of the few times in life when a panel of experts will come together to pick apart years of […]
Five Surprises from my Oral Exam
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 […]
The Viva! (aka Oral Defence, Doctoral Defence, Doctoral Examination)
By Emma Kelly In the week before your Viva you will get many pieces of sometimes contradictory advice. ‘Make your presentation absolutely watertight, you DO NOT WANT to make any […]