Resources for research students

The following material will assist HDR students in planning, conceptualising, structuring and writing their higher degree thesis.

The good, the bad, and the necessary to know

General HDR information

What you need to consider when planning your thesis

Planning your thesis

A useful way to structure your thoughts in the thesis planning stage

The V Planning Template

What you need to consider when designing a research question

Designing a research question

A road map to your research proposal and confirmation

Research proposals

Getting through that all-important CoC: what does it involve?

Confirmation of candidature

Varieties of thesis structures

Thesis types and structures

An argument: A connecting a series of statements intended to establish a conclusion

Mapping arguments

Writing and structuring an Abstract, Structured Abstract or Executive Summary

Abstracts, Structured Abstracts, and Executive Summaries

The Introduction and all-important research gap

Introductions and the Research Gap

Planning and structuring the literature review

Writing a Literature review

Differences between literature reviews, scoping reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and meta-analyses

An overview of how to write scoping reviews, and systematic reviews

Writing a scoping review or systematic review

How to write and structure these important sections of your thesis

The Methodology, Methods and Procedure sections

How to write and structure a Results section

The Results section

Ways of discussing and presenting data

Presenting data

Discussing discussion sections

The Discussion section

What to expect. How to edit and proofread your thesis prior to submission. Getting help.

The final stages of the PhD

The next step: Everything you wanted to to know about getting published

Academic publishing

Promoting yourself as an academic

Promoting yourself as an academic

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