We’ve experienced the challenges of graduate study ourselves and coached hundreds of graduate students worldwide. We created Dissertation Collective to bring together the practical guidance, thoughtful feedback, and community we wished we’d had.
Founder and Dissertation Coach
qualitative methodologies · Coach since 2021
PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Houston. Helps students with qualitative research, from choosing an approach to analyzing and presenting their findings: pinpointing what’s holding the work back, explaining why, and agreeing on clear next steps.
Dissertation Coach
quantitative and mixed methods methodologies · Coach since 2020
PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Iowa. Helps students with quantitative and mixed methods research across a range of fields, identifying where the design or analysis is stuck, making sense of it together, and setting clear next steps. An active listener, organized, patient, and compassionate.
Our approach combines the expert insights of experienced dissertation specialists with the clarity of empathetic teachers. We understand both the technical and the human challenges involved in doctoral work.
We combine dissertation expertise, project management principles, and ‘Write Mindset’ strategies to help you organize the work, build productive habits, and follow through.