Doctoral Student Support

Conceptual Clarity. Methodological Precision. Scholarly Voice.

Doctoral research is demanding not only intellectually, but structurally and institutionally. Many PhD students develop projects that are conceptually ambitious yet difficult to stabilize within conventional academic expectations—especially when working in interdisciplinary, movement-based, or practitioner-informed domains.

I work with doctoral students who are committed to producing rigorous, defensible scholarship while remaining faithful to the complexity of their lived inquiry.

Who I Work With

I am particularly well-suited to support students who are:

  • Designing qualitative or transdisciplinary dissertations
  • Working with autoethnography or practice-based research
  • Bridging scholarly theory and lived practice
  • Engaging movement-based learning, ecological approaches to adaptation, cross-cultural practice, embodiment, or transformation studies
  • Struggling to translate embodied insight into structured academic argument

If your project feels intellectually ambitious but structurally unstable, we can work on strengthening its conceptual architecture.

Areas of Support

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Questions?

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Research Design & Conceptual Framing

  • Clarifying research questions
  • Strengthening epistemological and theoretical grounding
  • Aligning methodology with research aims
  • Anticipating committee concerns and ensuring defensibility

Methodological Guidance

  • Autoethnography and analytic autoethnography
  • Phenomenology and case-based inquiry
  • Practice-as-research (technique as knowledge)
  • Integrating practitioner expertise into scholarly frameworks
  • Cross-cultural considerations in embodied research

Writing & Revision

  • Structural coherence
  • Argument precision
  • Conceptual integration
  • Refinement toward publication standards

Navigating the Process

  • Proposal development
  • Committee communication
  • Responding to critical feedback
  • Defense preparation

My role is not to do your work for you. It is to help you think more clearly, argue more precisely, and structure your project so that it can withstand rigorous scrutiny.

My Approach

My doctoral research examined movement-based practice as a technology of the self, integrating ecological approaches to learning, poststructural theory, cross-cultural analysis, and qualitative methodology. Having navigated a conceptually complex dissertation myself, I understand both the intellectual demands and institutional constraints of doctoral work.

I approach dissertation support as:

  • Collaborative but not directive
  • Critical but constructive
  • Intellectually demanding
  • Grounded in methodological accountability

Where appropriate, I draw on ecological ways of thinking about perception and attunement—not as metaphor, but as practical tools for identifying gaps, misalignments, and unexamined assumptions in research design.

Format & Structure

  • One-on-one consultations (virtual)
  • Ongoing project-based mentorship
  • Short-term structural or conceptual reviews
  • Intensive proposal or defense preparation sessions

Sliding scale pricing available for doctoral students.

A Note on Fit

I work best with students who:

  • Welcome direct and substantive feedback
  • Value conceptual rigor
  • Are willing to revise deeply
  • Understand that serious scholarship requires disciplined effort

If you are seeking affirmation without revision, I am not the right fit. If you are committed to producing rigorous, original scholarship and want a demanding but supportive sounding board, I would be glad to speak with you.

Begin the Conversation

If you would like to discuss your dissertation or research project, please contact me.

Please include:

  • Program and institution
  • Working research question
  • Methodological orientation (if identified)