Find your PG Crew at a Potluck Dinner
If you’re looking for your PG people to walk with you on your thesis-writing journey, look no further. The Postgraduate Potluck Team has been bringing PG students together for years, […]
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Join the AUT Research Writing Group
When writing is hard, daunting, lonely, or otherwise challenging, the support and encouragement of some fellow PG research writers can be just the thing to get your creative juices flowing. […]
Lunch with Qualitative & Mixed Methods Researchers
The Qualitative & Mixed Methods group is having a lunch for existing and potential new members on Thursday 7 July at 12 noon on the city campus. The group brings […]
New Climate Change Researchers’ Group at AUT
Working on a climate change project, or something with implications for climate change? AUT has a new Climate Change Researchers’ Group especially for PG students involved in tackling the urgent […]
Is a Writing Group Right for You?
Some people are focused thesis-writers: the type that love to grab a mug of something hot and burrow down for a day of productive, distraction-free writing. They successfully ignore their […]
The Value of Finding your PhD Tribe
I’ve just come back from a gathering of 80 Māori and indigenous PhD students at Puketeraki Marae at Karitāne in North Otago. We’re all members of a national PhD scholars’ […]
Why should you practice your PGR9 Presentation in front of your peers?
The PGR9 (Confirmation of Candidature) is probably the most talked-about event in the first year of the PhD journey at AUT. Indeed, successfully passing this stage is a major leap […]
Throwback Thursday: Where to Find your PhD Support Group
This post by Dr Julia Hallas first appeared on Thesislink in May 2014. A network of Research Students Peer Groups has since been started at AUT – see the RSPG […]
Let’s Talk Post-qualitative Inquiry
As researchers we inevitably work within a set of norms that have been built by other researchers before us, using the vocabulary they formed, and the methods they refined. As […]
Upcoming Peer Group Meetings for Postgrads
Lonely? Bored? Stressed out? From time to time, it can be helpful to get out of the office or lab and spend some time with humans who understand what you’re […]
Join the Research Students Writing Group
Want to talk with other postgrads about your writing? There is a new Research Students Writing Group that provides student-led support for thesis writing. Get pumped to write by learning […]
8 Upcoming Events for Qualitative Researchers
If you’re a qualitative researcher, now is a great time to be at AUT. We have lots of workshops and events coming up for you over the next few weeks, […]