Who we help · Individuals
Parents, employers & student sponsors
Transparent support for students you sponsor, from parents, employers and scholarship bodies, without replacing the student’s authorship or disclosing their work without consent.
1 of 3What you face
Decisions we help you make.
Where our work usually starts with organisations and people like you.
Whether coaching would help the student
What ethical support includes, and excludes
How progress is reported to you
How to respect the student’s privacy
How we work with youWe report to sponsors only with the student’s consent, and we never write assessed work.
2 of 3What we do
Services, by practice.
Every service here has a defined first scope and a fixed fee agreed in writing before work begins.
1 of 11 practices serve this group
11Research supervision, academic coaching & publication support
4 of the 4 services on this page
- Thesis and dissertation coachingCoaching for master’s, doctoral and executive-programme researchers, from topic to viva. You write every word; we help you think, plan and improve, and our assistance is declared.→
- Research methods and statistics supportHelp with research design, quantitative and qualitative methods and statistics, so you understand and can defend every choice. The analysis is yours, and the assistance is declared.→
- Academic editing, formatting and referencingEditing for language, structure, style, formatting and referencing, within the limits your institution permits. We never add to or change your ideas, arguments or findings.→
- Research-methods bootcamps and supervisor trainingPractical bootcamps for doctoral schools, universities and professional bodies, and training that helps supervisors guide researchers well, with outcomes assessed.→
3 of 3What you can try now
Start with a free tool.
Working tools matched to the services above. Results on screen straight away.
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Research question generator
Describe your interest, setting, population and what data you can realistically reach. You get several ways to frame a research question for different purposes, each with feasibility prompts to test before you commit. They are starting points, not an assessed proposal.
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Research methodology decision aid
Answer what your question asks, what data you can reach and whether you can influence who gets what. The aid explains which designs fit and why, the assumptions each makes, and what analysis you will need to learn to do yourself.
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Research proposal checklist
Tick the sections your draft already has and set your word count. The checklist shows what is missing, gives questions to answer in each section yourself, and includes a declaration-of-assistance template for any help you receive.
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Reference list checker
Paste your reference list, one reference per line, and choose the style. The checker finds duplicates, missing years, inconsistent DOIs, page ranges and ordering. It never invents a DOI or source, and it is not a plagiarism check.
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University research capacity assessment
Assess your institution’s research function across supervision, ethics, the research office, outputs and integrity. You get a capacity profile, the supervision load in numbers and a gap register with the first action for each gap, without invented rankings.
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Literature review matrix
Break your question into concepts and synonyms to get database search strings, then log the sources you have actually read with their theme, method and your own summary. The matrix groups them by theme for an outline you write yourself. No citations are invented.
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What needs to move forward?
Tell us the decision, the challenge or the opportunity. We reply with a scoped approach, a named principal and a fee before any work begins.
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