Botany & Zoology: Research support

• Software HUB - Home (sharepoint.com) for Stellenbosch University students
• Enhancing Postgraduate Environments (useful resources for supervisors and postgraduates)
• Stellenbosch University research related policies and guidelines
• Research Development Postgraduate Resources (thesis layout, word formatting etc)
• The Manchester Academic Phrasebank  aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation
• Short MSWord tutorials
• Postgraduate Skills Development programme
• Effective time management (electronic book by Marc Mancini, Ph.D)
• Open4Research a funding portal for the identification of international research funding opportunities
  Register once off with your @sun email address and use any password
  Use the “Search for funding” and/or “Browse funding” options for a wide range of funding opportunities
  For some of the most recent research funding opportunities highlighted by Open 4 Research, refer to “News” or “Funding news”
  Refer to “Help & advice” for more details on how to search
  For enquiries, please contact research@sun.ac.za or dominiquem@sun.ac.za

• The Postgraduate and Researcher LibraryGuide
• Library YouTube workshop videos: literature review, systematic review and more
• Research Data Management questions? Please contact Sam Simango​
• The research process
• Library research support 
• Need help with your research impact bibliometrics?
• Find resources to answer your research methods and statistics questions: SAGE Research Methods
• Useful apps for research

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