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Everything your coach helps with

Each service below covers one stage of the dissertation. Your coach comments, asks and suggests, and the writing and decisions stay yours.

  1. No. Match

    A coach in your field

    Our coordinator reads your topic and course details, then pairs you with a PhD-qualified coach who knows your subject area.

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    A coach in your field

    Summary

    Topic: housing policy in post-industrial towns. Matched with a coach from social policy who has supervised qualitative interview projects. Intro call set for Tuesday evening.

  2. No. Plan

    A plan set to your deadline

    We work backwards from your university's submission date and set milestones for each chapter, with room for the weeks that go sideways.

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    A plan set to your deadline

    Summary

    Final hand-in early May. Chapter one draft by the end of January, literature review before Easter, findings through April with a buffer week.

  3. No. Propose

    Shape your proposal

    Proposal coaching helps you narrow a broad interest into a research question your supervisor can say yes to.

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    Shape your proposal

    Summary

    First draft question covered three countries and fifty years. Narrowed to one city and one decade, with a clear reason for both choices.

  4. No. Read

    Organise the literature review

    Literature review support helps you sort a growing pile of reading into themes and spot where your own argument fits.

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    Organise the literature review

    Summary

    Twenty-two sources grouped into two debates and one gap. Next step: write the bridge paragraph linking the second debate to the research question.

  5. No. Design

    Talk through your research design

    Research design sessions help you choose an approach you can justify, from interviews and surveys to archival or textual work.

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    Talk through your research design

    Summary

    Eight semi-structured interviews planned. Ethics form drafted, consent sheet checked, and a short paragraph written on why interviews suit the question.

  6. No. Review

    Chapter feedback calls

    Send a chapter ahead of time, then talk it through on a call with your coach. You leave with a short list of next changes.

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    Chapter feedback calls

    Summary

    Chapter three: argument clear, but findings and discussion blur together. Split them, move two quotes forward, and cut the final page of repetition.

One chapter at a time.

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Margin Notes Tutoring offers online dissertation coaching that helps you keep track of milestones and chapter feedback.

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