Academic Resolutions for a Productive 2018
Welcome back! AUT is back up and running for 2018 after the summer break, and we’re excited for another year of exciting postgrad research. As we gear up for the […]
workshops
PG Week: Workshop Places Still Available
This week is jam-packed with workshops on all aspects of the postgrad experience. Some are booking up, but there are still places available in most workshops. Here’s an up-to-date schedule: […]
Conquering Your IT Challenges
Not so long ago, working on a thesis meant writing drafts longhand or on a typewriter, after consulting journals that you found physically in the library by consulting a card […]
Postgraduate Week 2016
Let me give you a scenario. You are out to dinner with friends and their partners, making small talk waiting for the food to arrive. Someone’s partner leans over to […]
Starting out in quantitative research
By Dr Lyn Lavery If a t-test sounds like something you’d do to test the strength of your cuppa, and you think kurtosis is a tropical disease, then you might […]
PG Week: “How to Survive Your PhD” online course
Those little letters “Dr” in front of someone’s name confer an awful lot of respectability. And so they should – anyone who has completed a PhD has proved themselves capable […]
PG Week: Maximising your CV-friendly transferable skills
No matter what your course of study, your postgraduate journey will leave you with knowledge and skills far wider than your subject area. Dr Lyn Lavery’s PhD is in Educational […]
Get ready for postgrad week
Get excited… next week is Postgraduate Week at AUT! Really, for those of us studying towards a postgrad qualification, every week is postgrad week. But the official PG Week is […]
AUT Student Learning Centre – upcoming workshop series
The AUT Student Learning Centre will shortly be running the following two workshop series: English for Academic Skills Independence (EASI) Sessions 1-6 This is an intensive programme of six sessions […]
Finishers’ Wisdom: Tip #9 – Tap Into AUT’s Support Services
Recent doctoral thesis finishers Emma Kelly and Wendy Moore got together at the latest AUT Postgraduate Writers’ Retreat to collate their 10 top tips for working on a PhD thesis. […]
Leaping into the Unknown
Writing a doctorate can feel a bit like ‘leaping’ into the unknown. And, sometimes we become a bit lost and feel as if we have lost our inspiration! Drawing on […]
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 […]