Graduate School
In year one, thirty PDFs in a folder work fine. By year three, four hundred badly named files and scattered notes can cost you an afternoon to find one quotatio
Academic Writing
Typing a reference list by hand takes days and still goes wrong. Set up a Zotero workflow for a whole thesis: collect sources, clean metadata, cite in Word or O
Research Integrity & Open Science
A “Smith (1998) found” copied from someone else’s paper can carry their mistake for twenty years. How to cite honestly when you cannot get the original, check c
Graduate School
The first year of a PhD is the freest and the easiest to lose. No weekly assignments, no exams, just a fuzzy topic and a mountain of reading. What to do in year
AI in Research & Learning
A generative AI assistant can summarise a paper in seconds, but it drops conditions, overstates conclusions and mixes studies up. A workflow for AI-assisted rea
