Graduate Research School
GRS coordinates UTS-wide PhD and indeed all researcher development. We encourage you to build your network of peers across the disciplines (also bearing in mind that your learning analytics research may well need to partner with one or more academic teams in the faculties/centres).
PLEASE NOTE: The CIC HDR procedures are a companion document to the UTS Graduate Research Candidature Management, Thesis Preparation and Submission Procedures (known as Procedures – first link below). Where there is any inconsistency between the two documents, the Procedures take precedence. The CIC procedures clarify how particular processes work specifically at CIC. For anything not covered here, refer to the Procedures.
- Graduate Research Candidature Management, Thesis Preparation and Submission Procedures (pdf)
- The UTS Research Environment (Staff Connect home) includes the UTS research strategy
- Research Education and Development
- Research Student Workshops
- UTS HDR Handbook (pdf)
- Managing, archiving and publishing research data (Stash)
UTS Library
UTS Library runs a range of workshops throughout the year for researchers. Check out their research site for more information.
- Video on research data management and Stash
Key resources
- The UTS Graduate Research School runs a number of workshops, and supports a mentoring programme
- You may find the resources at Vitae (and the research development planner there) useful
Around the web
- Thesis whisperer
- Vitae Innovate Handbook of social media for researchers and supervisors, Open University 2012
- The Art of Doing a PhD
- How to be stupid in research
- PhD Comics
- PhD Talk
- Pat Thomson
- The Chronicle’s researcher development site
- Many people at UTS blog, e.g. Simon (K)’s blog on the PhD viva may be useful
Tools
- Using Trello for organising the PhD life
- Google Keep for shareable ToDo Lists
- Use a citation management tool
- Setup google scholar alerts for citations to key papers/authors
- Statistical methods for HCI
Theses
Share exemplar thesis citations here – the best way to learn how to write a PhD, and the many different PhD shapes and styles, is to read them.
- Huffman, S. R. (2015). Exploring learner perceptions of and interaction behaviors using the Research Writing Tutor for research article Introduction section draft analysis. Retrieved from http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/14418/
- Feng, Hui-Hsien (2015). Designing, implementing, and evaluating an automated writing evaluation tool for improving EFL graduate students’ abstract writing: a case in Taiwan
General thesis resources
- UTS theses are available online UTS Digital Theses Collection (OPUS)
- British Library EThOS/ – Search and order theses online
- Theses now searchable via Trove
General Reference Books that might prove useful include:
- 5 books to help you with your PhD
- Burns, R.B. (1994) Introduction to Research Methods, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire (esp. parts 1 and 3).
- Creswell, J. (1994) Research Design: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Thousand Oaks, Sage
- Crotty, M. (1998) The Foundations of Social Research: Meaning in the Research Process, Sage
- Leedy, P. & Ormrod, J. (2000) Practical Research: Planning & Design, Prentice Hall (7th ed)
- Martella, R., Nelson, R. & Marchand-Martella, N. (1998) Research Methods: learning to Become a Critical Research Consumer, Allyn & Bacon
- Punch, K.F. (1998) Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative & Qualitative Approaches, Sage, London
- Peterson, R. A. (2000), Constructing Effective Questionnaires, Sage Publications Inc., Thousand Oaks