Megan Burfoot on her 3MT Asia-Pacific Top 8 Success
AUT’s doctoral 3 Minute Thesis winner Megan Burfoot has gone on to great things… including a top 8 placing in the 2020 Asia-Pacific 3MT Finals! Megan’s achievement is all the […]
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AUT’s Marianne Carroll on her National 3MT Masters Win
Last Thursday, AUT’s 3MT Masters winner Marianne Carroll competed at the Virtual 2020 National Universities Masters 3MT Competition, where she took home first prize! Marianne was kind enough to pause […]
How Did You Restrategize Your COVID-Affected Research?
As of now, COVID-19 has infected over 16 million people worldwide, and resulted in over 650,000 deaths. The pandemic has squashed economies, kept families apart, and caused countless people to […]
When My Masters Research Topic Became Headline News
When I told my family that my postgraduate research was on the gendering of knitting over time and the language men who knit use to legitimize their presence in online […]
How I Structured My Doctoral Thesis in Format Two
Earlier this week on Thesislink I wrote about my experiences with the writing and examination process for my doctoral thesis in Format Two (manuscript format). This post gives a bit […]
My Experience with a Doctoral Thesis in Format Two
Kia Ora! My name is Prabakar, from the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies. I have recently defended my Format Two thesis (manuscript format) successfully amid various challenges, including COVID-19! […]
Reflections of a Muslim Student One Year after New Zealand’s Darkest Day
After the terrorist attacks on Christchurch mosques on March 15th 2019, AUT Muslim doctoral candidate Najmah Usman wrote two posts for Thesislink giving her reflections. Here, writing with her husband […]
Postgraduate Research Advisory Group: Tell Us What You Think!
Got opinions about postgraduate research support at AUT? Great! We want to hear them! AUT’s Postgraduate Research Advisory Group (PRAG) acts a channel through which postgraduate research students can communicate […]
Throwback Thursday: Postgrad Parents – Tips from a Graduand
This article by Dr Melissa Gould first appeared on Thesislink in May 2017, when Melissa was about to receive her PhD. She is now a graduate not a graduand, but […]
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’ […]
Welcome Home: ‘Reverse Culture Shock’ after International Study in NZ
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 […]
Join the Postgraduate Research Advisory Group
Want to help improve the postgraduate research experience at AUT? Students working on a Masters or doctoral research project are invited to join the Postgraduate Research Advisory Group (PRAG) to […]