Resources

Berkeley Writing Centre:

berkeleyeduwritingworksheets

Find useful writing tips, writing worksheets and short summaries on different writing related topics on the Berkeley edu, University of California website above

Cecile Badenhorst’s blog:

https://cecilebadenhorst.wordpress.com/

A research and writing go-to site for postgraduate students and academics

Cecile Badenhorst’s youtube channel:

cecilebadenhorstyoutube channel

This channel houses  a range of useful research writing related videos

Centre for Innovation in Research and Teaching:

researchdevelopmentresources/mixedmethods

Helpful guidelines and resources on mixed methods research methodology on the CIRT, Grand Canyon University, Arizona’s website

CHE Doctoral Degrees Qualifications Standard:

Doctoral Degrees Qualification Standard_Version 1.0_ HEQC Approved

Coursera:

www.coursera.org/learn/research-methods

Includes short videos and readings about the research question, literature review, planning your research etc

DoctoralWriting SIG:

DoctoralWritingSIG

A forum hosted by Cally Guerin, Claire Aitchison and Susan Carter where people who are interested in doctoral writing  come together to share information, resources, ideas and dreams in the spirit of building knowledge and skills around higher degree research writing.

Editage:

https://www.editage.com

Editage insights – a useful site containing scientific writing, conference presentation, science communication tips and other research related podcasts and articles

elearning:

https://elearning.trree.org

Covers research ethics training

Enhancing Postgraduate Environments (EPE) website:

postgradenvironments.com

Find useful South African contextualised research related resources on this open access website

Future Learn:

https://www.futurelearn.com

Contains useful postgraduate research resources

Oasis for Learning:

oasis-for-learning.net

A  website with postgrad research, writing and postgraduate supervision resources

Patter blog:

https://patthomson.net/category/academic-writing/

Pat Thompson is an academic blogger and has worked with Inger Mewburn, the Thesis Whisperer (see the resource below), on academic blogging. Pat’s academic blogging covers research education, academic writing, public engagement, funding, and other relevant research related topics

Purdue Online Writing Lab:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material,  free of charge

The Good Supervisor:

https://goodsupervisor.co.uk (password: brighton)

A Creative Commons web platform created by Gina Wisker for supervisors of Master’s and doctoral candidates, containing valuable research based support for the different stages and dimensions of supervising.

The Thesis Whisperer:

https://thesiswhisperer.com/about/

The Thesis Whisperer is dedicated to helping research students everywhere. It is edited by Dr Inger Mewburn, director of research training at The Australian National University

The Thesis Whisperer has contributors from around the world. Supervisors will find practical guidelines and resources at the Supervisor Whisperer page at https://thesupervisionwhisperers.wordpress.com/

The International Doctoral Education Research Network (IDERN):

https://www.mun.ca/educ/research/idern.php

A network of researchers who share their ideas and latest research on doctoral support, To join the IDERN, email idern@mun.ca

Yebo! project:

http://yebo.edu.umontpellier.fr/

Find out more about this new project – Developing Internationalization of PhD studies in South Africa, an Erasmus+ Capacity building project – on the Yebo! website above