Psychological Medicine: Postgrad Research

The Thesis Information guide pulls together University regulations, procedures, resources and sources of support for you to refer to as you undertake your thesis journey. This guide offers useful advice and support for stages in the process. Browse the guide for:

• planning
• finding information
• reviewing the literature
• copyright
• writing
• formatting
• binding
• submitting
• depositing
• publishing
• support

Remember to revisit the guide often for simple to technical answers, and which support services to consult.

Here you can see the latest postgraduate research that has been published in OUR Archive from Psychological Medicine at Otago.

There are Library sessions and workshops provided specifically for Postgraduate students. For more information and to register go to face-to-face sessions, or Zoom workshops.

Information sessions 10-11am (face to face) and 1-2pm (via Zoom) on the last Wednesday of the month

• 29 May, 25 Sep - Postgraduate Library Services – An introduction to Library support, recommended resources and services.
• 26 Jun, 30 Oct - Effective Search Strategies - Learn how to search recommended databases for relevant literature, and manage your results
• 31 July, 27 Nov - The Thesis Guide – For new thesis students, about preparation, copyright compliance, submitting, and depositing.
• 28 Aug, 11 Dec - Researcher Profiles - Building an online profile to promote your research, and yourself.

Hands-on Workshops 10-11.30am (face to face) and 1-2.30pm (via Zoom) on Tuesdays & Thursdays twice a year

• 25 June, 5 Nov - EndNote: Managing your references - A hands-on workshop using EndNote to store, group, edit and annotate references, and cite while you write (basic level). 
• 27 June, 7 Nov - Research Data Management - Make sense of the complexity around data storage, description, re-use and archiving. 
• 2 July, 12 Nov - Getting published - Practical tips for postgraduates. Learn how to develop a publishing strategy and identify the right journals for submission. 
• 4 July, 14 Nov - Impact Metrics - Understand tools that explain impact factors and ranking for what to read, and where to publish. 

If you find a great article on your topic, you can use a citation database to track down related articles. 

Conference papers are an excellent source of current research, best practices and new innovations in a research area. 

RSS feeds help you keep up to date with information from websites and databases without you having to visit them.

Updates to your favourite websites are 'fed' to you through a feed reader. 

RSS feeds consist of titles and short summaries of the full content on the website, so you can quickly assess whether or not to visit the website to view the full content.

To use feeds you will need to set up a feed reader such as Netvibes.