Researcher agency
The tool can organise a question or prompt reflection. The researcher decides what fits the study and what to do next.
Why GradGuide exists
Research support should help you think more clearly.
GradGuide turns difficult research tasks into practical steps while keeping your judgement, context and academic responsibility at the centre.
The problem in front of us
Research work can become hard to see.
A postgraduate project asks you to hold many things together: a worthwhile problem, a coherent design, a changing body of literature, feedback from other people and a sustained piece of writing.
When those parts compete for attention, progress can stall. GradGuide is designed to make the work visible again: name the problem, examine the connections and choose a manageable next step.
What guides the product
Practical support with clear boundaries.
Human supervision
Supervisors, co-authors and institutional communities remain essential sources of disciplinary judgement and challenge.
Academic responsibility
Researchers remain responsible for authorship, evidence, ethics and the requirements that apply to their work.
Responsible AI support
Where AI supports a workflow, it should help the researcher examine and organise their own work, without pretending to replace expertise or accountability.
Behind GradGuide
Sandra Steyn
GradGuide has been shaped around the practical realities of postgraduate research: uncertainty, competing demands, substantial feedback and the need to make careful decisions over time.
The aim is simple and demanding: give researchers useful structure without taking the thinking away from them.
See the work. Ask a better question. Move forward with purpose.
What GradGuide does
- Helps make research tasks and relationships more visible.
- Supports planning, reflection, synthesis and revision.
- Offers prompts and structures for practical next steps.
What remains yours
- Your argument, interpretation and academic voice.
- Your institution’s ethics, integrity and assessment requirements.
- The decisions you make with supervisors, collaborators and research communities.
Choose the route that fits
Same research. A brighter tomorrow.
Keep your judgement at the centre of the work.
Start with a practical tool and the research task you need to understand.