Resource Hub

Downloads and templates

University Selection decision aid

This customisable template will help you organise your thoughts around your university selection. Feel free to reorganise and add more criteria/universities. Simply add information about your shortlisted universities as you research them.

Christmas Mini Gantt Chart (2024-25)

This is a 4-week (daily) customisable Gantt chart for those who want to work through the Christmas break and need a more contained and focused chart. Set your goals for this holiday period and keep yourself on track with whatever research and writing activity that needs to be done

Micro Meso Macro Questions for research gap

This list of questions is designed to prompt you to think deeper about the literature you have read about your topic. See this video for more information about research gaps.

Gantt Chart and word count calculator

Templates and examples of Gantt charts for Masters and PhD students for different research types. See this video for more information and tips about customising this document for your research and how to use the writing speed calculator.

Literature Review Proposal Skeleton Template

This is a proposal planning tool to help you see your empirical research study as a whole. See this video for more information and this mini course will teach you how to take it further to troubleshoot and identify problems in your research design.

Empirical Research Proposal Skeleton Template

This is a proposal planning tool to help you see your literature review study as a whole. It is designed for scoping review and systematic review study. See this video for more information and this mini course will teach you how to take it further to troubleshoot and identify problems in your research design.

Scoping review analysis method decision tree

This is a tool to help you make decisions about the analysis method to use for your data extraction in your scoping review. See this video for more information and explanation.

AI supported Scoping Review Manuscript

This is the manuscipt that I have written based on an AI-assisted scoping review that I conducted. This is shared as educational material to demonstrate how a review can be conducted, written up and reported in practice. I explain how I conducted the study in this YouTube series. 

Literature Search Tracker Tool

The search tracker helps you keep a record of your search terms, boolean operators, filters and limiters, search results and links. There is also space to record how you and ammended the search string.  I explain how to use this tool here in this YouTube video. 

Masters Dissertation Starter 14 Day road map

This road map captures all that you need to do within the first 2 weeks of your Masters dissertation module, from my perspective as a dissertation supervisor. I explain all the concerns and tips and how to use this tool here in this YouTube video. 

Research Objective Verb Glossary

This verb glossary provides some explanation about what the verbs mean and what type of research it is used with. Watch this YouTube video for more information. 

First Year PhD Starter Pack

This starter pack consists of 4 documents: A 90 day roadmap, training needs analysis/learning contract, supervision agenda and a priorisation chart. Watch this YouTube video for more information. This is a compressed file (.zip) which requires extraction before you can access the documents. Here is how you can do it: Windows and Mac.