Africa Postgraduate Clinic enhances the graduate school experience by providing tailored guidance to Master's and PhD students across Africa.
Our Support
Chapter-based review, argument and coherence assessment, methodological consistency, final editing, external review, and defense (Viva) preparation.
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research design, mapping your research questions with your research objectives, designing a conceptual/theoretical framework, methodological choices, fieldwork and analytical toolkit, and research ethics.
We do not replace your supervisor but supplement limited supervisor access with dedicated, in-depth research support sessions. Navigating complex student-supervision dynamics of history, time, expectations, and possible divergence among supervisors.
Manuscript strategy, thesis-to-paper conversion, journal selection, manuscript development, peer-review preparation, and open-science/publication strategy.
Guidance on balancing graduate research with family and work; build resilience to manage stress, burnout, and the pressures of graduate research; optimise your mental, physical, and social wellbeing at the graduate school.
Understand why communicating your research to scientific and non-scientific audiences matters and how to go about it; learn how your research can find relevance and influence positive transformation in society and policy; and possible knowledge products for translating your scientific findings into real-world change.
Ethical considerations in generative AI (responsible use, limitations, and hallucinations), AI-assisted literature discovery, research workflow automation, referencing and citation, systematic literature searching, literature screening and synthesis tools, and plagiarism and AI detection.
Designing a bankable research concept and packaging your proposal for funding; matching you with possible funders for your fieldwork, conference presentation/participation, and publication support; and workplan and budget development.
Pricing
Choose a session that fits your needs.
We match the student's needs with the right expertise to enhance the quality of guidance.
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