Help for Your Doctoral or Master's Thesis

The thesis support I offer can help you with a variety of challenges, using a combination of Zoom calls, written feedback and responsive emails. 

Planning together, we can custom-design an approach that works for you, or you can choose one of my three signature approaches:

• A 30-minute private consultation
• A package of 3 hours of coaching spread over several weeks 
• Group workshops to address issues of common concern to PhD candidates, and discuss solutions with your peers. Laughter included! 

Your challenges will be unique, but  here are some of the topics that PhD and Master's candidates find particularly helpful:

• Completing Your Thesis

Deciding it's time to be done! Whether you've hit a wall or have faced delays caused by illness or other challenges, I will help you wind up the thesis and move forward to graduation. 

• Academic Coaching

Coaching with academic writing, interpreting your university's guidelines, or understanding what has to be done to complete a program--everything will be explained.  I'm a believer in transparency.

• Editing

I am more useful than Grammarly or AI in personalizing your language usage, argument, style and structure. I work with your university's templates to ensure full alignment with their requirements. I observe strong ethical practices and use a coaching approach to help you improve your academic writing. 

• Review of Individual Thesis Chapters

Providing honest but sensitive feedback on chapters such as your Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Findings and Conclusion. This feedback can then be discussed during a zoom call.  Chapters are reviewed in light of your preferred Style Guide (APA, CMOS, Harvard, etc.) 

• Interpreting thesis feedback from supervisors.

Reviewing and discussing feedback from thesis Supervisors, whether it's negative or constructive. Finding the way forward to address what the supervisors are saying.

• Increasing Focus and Building Resilience for the PhD Journey

Coaching you through dealing with distractions, helping you to refocus, and finding strategies to overcome procrastination. I can suggest ways to reduce the pressures associated with deadlines, and manage the negative effects on stress and anxiety.

• Preparation for Defences or Vivas 

Finalizing slide decks and holding Mock Defences or Vivas on Zoom. I have been an examiner so I ask good questions!

• Program Proposals or Admission Applications

Helping to prepare Research Proposals associated with university progression. Ensuring applications are preparing in line with the University guidelines.

If you need help with these or any other topics . . .