Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Postgraduate
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Laura Moss writes a really helpful article on writing articles for academic journals and what things you can do to improve the overall experience for yourself, the editor(s), and the peer-reviewers. My advice here is aimed at scholars of all levels and not just emerging ones. We all need to work on finding optimal ways…
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Almost 10 years today I was about to start work post-PhD at the University of Auckland as a new Lecturer in Practical Theology in the School of Theology. At that point, I’d done quite a bit of adjunct lecturing and some eLearning consulting, but hadn’t yet supervised any students for postgraduate research projects. My expectation…
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Clearing out a bunch of things that has been sitting in the Bookmarks bar of my web browser. Here’s a bunch of links to some interesting higher education posts I saved during the last 6 months. Videoing lectures ‘has no impact’ on attendance, says study | Times Higher Education (THE) This is why traditional lectures…
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Useful to improving the number of books you can read, as well as what you get out of them. Source: How to Read A Book
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Some sage advice for graduate students (and those preparing them) on moving into the academic profession. See Russell McCutcheon: Theses on Professionalization – The Religious Studies Project
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Some helpful advice on academic publishing for new academics. From Dissertation to Book – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education It’s a Dissertation, Not a Book – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education
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New scholarship at the University of Auckland for postgraduate study in Theology. Foveran Scholarships Value of Award: up to $20,000 No. of awards: Varies Tenure:1 year The Scholarships were established in 2009 and are funded by a retired University of Auckland staff member. The purpose of these Scholarships is to enable students who have obtained…
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Tim’s recent post SansBlogue: Referencing for the financially challenged generated a few comments, so he’s followed it up with SansBlogue: Zotero is brilliant, and integrates nicely which includes some movies of how Zotero works in practice. I have Zotero installed on the old iBook and it’s integration with MS Word v.X for Mac is quite…