We help students with the nitty-gritty stuff involved in doing post graduate research. Those things that academic supervisors do not have the time for. We mentor you to get over the emotional, technical and practical hurdles typical of doing scientific work, and getting the job done. We do not do the research or the writing for you, and we do not even attempt to make your shit shine. What we do very well is to help you dig up and refine gold nuggets through your research process.
Masters and Doctoral students in the Human and Business Sciences who need an academic supervisor or an external co-supervisor or just an independent research specialist to help them get that coveted qualification done. Especially in those subjects covered in MBA degrees, Industrial and Organisational Psychology, Human Resource Management, Spirituality and Wellness topics.
We know our stuff. I have completed three master's degrees in three different fields and a transdisciplinary doctorate. I have been an independent lecturer for more than a decade, at post-graduate level, both locally and on the international MBA circuit. I have more than 20 years of experience working in the corporate world at different levels and know well what the research fields look like when applied in the business and university workplaces. I have supervised a few master's students and entering the doctorate supervision domain as well.
We assist you to deliver your research project on time by following a step-by-step process. We help you project manage your study from start to end in order to operationalise the academic requirements and get your research done. To impress your supervisor with the quality of the progress you are making between meetings.
If you already have a topic and an academic supervisor, you contract me on an hourly basis to help you get organised and find your way around the intricacies of the research process.
If you do not have an allocated supervisor or a topic yet, you can have me appointed as an external supervisor by your faculty or as a co-supervisor, and together we help you through. Our expertise is in getting you unstuck, make progress, and staying the course till the end.
Depending on where your bottleneck is and in what capacity we are contracted, we use a tested process that deals with all those little details and gremlins that get in the way of your progress.
The process works virtually through shared dashboards and stimulates quick collaboration and can be done from wherever you are.
We help you set up search categories, in various databases and search engines for you to navigate through the overwhelming amount of research and to get to what is really relevant and useful for your topic and research method
We help you set up your research folders, chapter templates and a method to organise your literature. Clarify the practicalities on how to operationalise your research methodology.
We help you organise your writing so that everything flows and follows a scientific process.
Depending on what we contracted for it could only be a few meetings or it can span the research from beginning to end.
The downside if you do not use us is that you may get stuck at proposal stage and not get your topic clarified. Your supervisor may terminate the relationship because of a lack of progress. You may get stuck psychologically due to feelings of self-doubt (supervisors are tough in their feedback). You may have everything but you are just not getting down to actually writing it up coherently.