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)

• The UTS Research Environment (Staff Connect home) includes the UTS research strategy and the first UTS Data Science Symposium held in 2015
• Researcher development on Staff Connect
• 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 http://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/future-researchers/research-degrees-uts/research-student-development
• You may find the resources at Vitae (and the research development planner there) useful https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers-professional-development/about-the-vitae-researcher-development-framework-planner

Around the web

• Thesis whisperer https://thesiswhisperer.com/useful-resources-for-students-and-supervisors/
• Vitae Innovate Handbook of social media for researchers and supervisors, Open University 2012 https://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/reports/innovate-open-university-social-media-handbook-vitae-2012.pdf
• The Art of Doing a PhD http://www.itu.dk/people/bardram/pmwiki/?n=Main.ArtPhD
• How to be stupid in research http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771
• PhD Comics http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php
• PhD Talk http://phdtalk.blogspot.com.au/
• Pat Thomson https://patthomson.net/
• The Chronicle’s researcher development site https://chroniclevitae.com/
• Many people at UTS blog, e.g. Simon (K)’s blog on the PhD viva may be useful http://sjgknight.com/finding-knowledge/2015/12/the-phd-viva/

Tools

• Using Trello for organising the PhD life https://doctoralwriting.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/live-a-phd-life-less-disorganised-with-trello/
• Google Keep for shareable ToDo Lists https://keep.google.com/#home
• Use a citation management tool http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/research/tools/type/referencing-citation
• Setup google scholar alerts for citations to key papers/authors http://scholar.google.com.au/
• Statistical methods for HCI http://yatani.jp/teaching/doku.php?id=hcistats:start

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.

General thesis resources

• UTS theses are available online http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/research/theses
• British Library EThOS – Search and order theses online http://ethos.bl.uk/
• Theses now searchable via Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/

General Reference Books that might prove useful include:

• 5 books to help you with your PhD https://thesiswhisperer.com/2010/11/18/5-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