How To Build A Personalized Thesis Design Tool That Supports You Throughout Your Research Journey

A 3-Step Plan to Systematically Build Your Thesis & Improve Your Confidence While You Work On Your Research

Discover the simple way to demystify academic research with a proven tool, which not only helps you stay on track but becomes a companion for your research journey. In just 1-day, you’ll produce a comprehensive summary of your Thesis, develop a much-improved understanding of your research, and have the confidence to know what to work on next (and how to make consistent progress) with your personalized thesis-design tool.

The truth is, without a systematic approach, you risk confusion, lost confidence, wasted time, and falling behind.

Without a concrete plan you can find yourself:

  • Wasting valuable time on irrelevant or unfocused tasks

  • Falling behind despite all your hard work and effort

  • Struggling to comprehend your thesis topic area

  • Feeling confused and alone in a long and uncertain research journey

  • Becoming stuck trying to understand academic decisions, terminology, or concepts

Because if your not in control of your research and thesis, it’s probably controlling you and your life :(

So join me on this online-video masterclass where you’ll learn EXACTLY how to create a thesis design tool that not only helps you make instant progress today but will also become a personal companion for your research journey

In 1-day you’ll:

  • Discover a proven framework that allows you to create an authoritative - and complete, clear, and coherent - account of your research

  • Relieve the mental burden of ideas, thoughts, questions, and doubts running through your mind by systematically organizing them on a single page

  • Stop worrying whether you’ve missed (or misunderstood) something important by recognizing and covering off on all the fundamental components, decisions, and questions in your research project

  • Replace “blah blah blah” / unfocused writing by practicing how to capture key points with succinct sentences

  • Avoid the common mistakes of having disjointed ideas spread over multiple pages and documents, or losing / forgetting about important points all together!

  • Uncover the 3 things to remove from your work-in-progress documents or thesis chapters (irrelevant points, isolated elements, and repetitive content)

  • Build a personalized thesis-design tool that you can utilise at different stages throughout your research journey

  • Finally, pinpoint strengths and weaknesses in your project, plan what to work on next, and be clear about how you are going to develop and improve your research

Begin the ON DEMAND & ONLINE VIDEO-based course now to take control of your thesis and research journey with a confidence-boosting academic tool

Meet your instructor…

Hi, I'm Dr. Ben!

Having struggled with my own PhD journey and witnessing other students suffer the complexity of academic research and the thesis and paper writing process, I began to explore how to simplify the overwhelming task of planning, designing, conducting, and writing research.

My academic journey took a chance turn when a friend introduced me to the business model canvas - a design tool created to help entrepreneurs, business owners, and companies create and evaluate business models. Seeing how the canvas simplified a complex process, I began to build a design tool for researchers - the research design canvas.

The research design canvas has been downloaded and used by students from universities in countries across the world. I’ve delivered research training on how to use the canvas and other tools in seminars, workshops, and webinars (to see feedback from students who have benefited, see below).

I’m now happy to provide online courses to help you build confidence and make progress in your research. I realise the last thing you want or need is additional reading, so the online training are all ON-DEMAND VIDEO-based courses, with clear step-by-step instructions of how to make progress in your research, without the extra reading burden :)

"The research design canvas showed me an iterative way in which to build my research approach, whilst ensuring that I understood the specific value of the different building blocks such as literature, theory, methods, and methodology.  It certainly ensured that when I am working late into the evening I have a tool to help and guide me.”

Dr. Louise Mayo

"I’m mature age, STEM, with no language difficulties but what you presented became the basis for my confirmation seminar. The session was the best pay-off for time invested in research training so far.

“I began to question the thesis plan in my proposal because results didn’t fit the original aims. The canvas prompted me to think more deeply about the gap between themes + issues in the literature (theoretical) and those revealed in my data. This enabled me to formulate new research questions for my study.”

Jennifer Duxbury

“I am at the commencement of the write-up phase of my PhD in anthropology and was surprised how useful I found the Research Design Canvas. It has helped untangle the web of ideas, thoughts and knowledge in my head and separate them in a comprehensible way which had an appreciably calming effect on my nerves.

Jodi Neale

Results from my online research training:

97% of participants said it had a positive influence on their confidence

95% of participants said it was a valuable use of their time (55% said extremely valuable)

98% of participants has increased confidence to start or make progress in their research

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Student have used and benefited from the canvas at all stages of the research journey. Bringing together the evolving parts of your thesis will help you consolidate your progress and identify what still requires further work or clarification

  • Yes, you can print out the digital file on A3 paper at anytime. Grab a coffee, pen, and highlighter to assess and reflect upon your one-page thesis summary.

  • You can continue to write in the open and flexible format of documents and chapters. Use the canvas alongside conventional documents to help you identify and organise key ideas and important points in your thesis

  • The spaces help you to focus on the most important ideas, and force you to communicate succinctly. Just like an abstract, there is no space for unfocused or irrelevant points. Unlike an abstract, the canvas allows you to capture a comprehensive overview of the fundamental building blocks of your research - side-by-side on a single page

  • Don’t worry, focus on the questions you feel confident or able to answer. terminology which is new to you and

  • The canvas is the perfect tool to help you easily keep track of changes. Update your canvas after making progress or major changes to your thesis. Use the canvas to help you ensure consistency and flow between the evolving ideas, decisions, and progress you make