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<\/p>\nAs Postgraduate Week draws to a close, here’s a big THANK YOU to everyone who presented their research, competed at 3MT, contributed a poster, attended a workshop, sat on a panel, or in any other way participated in the week. We really appreciate your enthusiasm and we love hearing about your research!<\/p>\n
Today’s Symposium has been full of exciting highlights. We got to hear Professor Welby Ings talk about disruption in his keynote; he pointed out some of the challenges that many of us face in our research, and talked about how everyone feels like a fraud sometimes. He emphasised that research is not stable, and is never really finished. Rather, it is a process that continually shapes us, and hopefully – if we are generous and passionate scholars – it betters us too.<\/p>\n
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Professor Welby Ings delivers his keynote address<\/p>\n
We were then spoilt for choice with 44 research presentations and 9 posters competing for our attention. The topics were incredibly varied. I spoke with poster presenter Kate Agnoli about her doctoral fieldwork in Antarctica, collecting and analysing air samples to track the aerial transport of microbes from South America and nearby islands. I listened to a talk by Siona Fernandes, whose research follows Indian families with different approaches to sport and physical activity in New Zealand. I watched Don Chooi’s filmed graphic novel, which beautifully and honestly explores his identity as an Asian gay man. I heard all about Ghada Zidan’s innovative 3D-printed bandage, which overcomes some of the problems and inefficiencies associated with the current method of healing corneal wounds.<\/p>\n
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Presenters and posters at the 2017 PG Symposium<\/p>\n
The presentations this year have been outstanding, and we will feature a full range of photographs on the AUT website and on Thesislink social media next week. We will also feature results from the 3MT competition finals, which are on at 3:10pm this afternoon.<\/p>\n
But for now, I will repeat: THANK YOU! Your research has inspired us, challenged us, and made us think. We will go away tonight intellectually stimulated, sated, and thoroughly fascinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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