Oasis for Learning: Postgraduate research support

Developing the concepts and theories:concepotual frameworks and theoretical perspectives in the thesis

Gina Wisker — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 09:28:01 -0800

Powerpoint for uni Johannesburg postgraduate school

UJ day 2 literature reviews, actioning your research proposal,building postgraduate communities

Gina Wisker — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:14:46 -0800

developed for uni Johannesburgon UJ day 2 literature reviews, actioning your research proposal,building postgraduate communities

Refining your research proposal Uni Johanneseburg day 1

Gina Wisker — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:13:07 -0800

PPt developed for UNi Johannesburg on refining the research proposal and beginning to action it

Developing conceptual frameworks

Gina Wisker — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:07:44 -0800

This supports your thoughts and plans for developing a conceptual framework which involves the main conceots and theories in your research

Managing your supervisor

Gina Wisker — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:05:35 -0800

focuses on ways in which as a postgraduate, you can help set up good working relationships with your supervisors, managing expectations, dealing with issues.

Developing undergraduate students as researchers

Gina Wisker — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:52:13 -0800

undergraduate student research support

What are examiners looking for?

Gina Wisker — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:15:02 -0700

This is a conference paper from Gina Wisker and Margaret Kiley, delvered at stellenboach university at the postgraduate supervision conference. It is based on new research with examiners which draws from established research by Kiley and Mullins. It looks at what examiners say they are looking for in a good thesis - and has useful quotations from examiners and their reports .

Writing a thesis

Gina Wisker — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:09:21 -0700

some thoughts about what examiners ae looking for, structuring a thesis, and writing differently in different sections of it, time managment and finishing.First used with postgraduates at UWE

Selecting a (Dissertation) Chair and Committee

Jon Dron — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:59:42 -0800

This is a useful article via Tomorrow's Professor for postgraduate students choosing their supervisory team, with a carefully thought-through set of criteria that includes expertise, accessibility, timeliness of feedback, previous success, personality and attitude to methodology. While the focus is on the rather peculiar North American PhD process that involves committees that both help and assess your PhD, chairs rather than lead supervisors found elsewhere, and talks about archaic practices like the tenure system, the principles all apply well across the board. If you've already chosen your team (or had it chosen for you) it might be interesting to see how your supervisor(s) match the criteria. Something that is not particularly highlighted in this article is that you don't always need all of these qualities in a single person. In fact, I think it is sometimes useful to have, say, one supervisor who loves your methodology and one that is sceptical, but it all depends on how you like to work.

Address of the bookmark: http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/enewsletterWithSurvey.php?msgno=1296

Getting research questions wrong - then right

Jon Dron — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:24:37 -0700

A nice simple explanation of how to come up with (and not come up with) research questions for a thesis. Distilled from Trowler's book (available cheaply at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctoral-Research-Higher-Education-ebook/dp/B007W57J5K )

Address of the bookmark: http://patthomson.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/getting-research-questions-wrong-then-right/