About the Hub
Practical guidance for the PhD you’re actually writing.
Resourceful Scholars’ Hub is an editorial site for PhD students – not a course, not a coaching program, just a growing library of field-tested guides.
Every article on the Hub answers a question that real graduate students ask: How do I structure a proposal that survives defense? What do examiners actually look for? How do I keep writing when fieldwork, teaching, and family all compete for the same week? We don’t publish theory. We publish the notes, checklists, and small systems that worked – written plainly, organized by topic, and always free.
Whether you’re drafting your first chapter or your fifth revision, the goal is the same: less time guessing, more time writing.
What We Cover
Everything on the Hub sorts into three shelves.
Each guide is written to answer a question real PhD students actually ask – not what a textbook says they should ask.
Research & Academic Writing
Step-by-step guidance for writing your proposal, literature review, thesis chapters, journal papers, and preparing for your defense.
PhD Productivity & Research Tools
Practical systems, research tools, and time-management strategies to help you stay organised, productive, and make steady progress.
Research Methods & Data Analysis
Practical guides for designing your study, collecting and managing data, choosing the right analysis, and using tools such as KoboToolbox and Stata
WHO RUNS IT
Built by someone still writing her own PhD.
The Hub is edited by Grace Njeri-Otieno, a PhD candidate in Kenya working in the Health Economics space since 2013. She started the site to write down the practical lessons she was learning the hard way – and to hand them to the next student who needs them.
Every guide on the Hub comes from that same place: what actually worked, written plainly, and made free.
The Aim
A go-to resource center for PhD students.
Not a course. Not a paid program. Just clear, field-tested advice – organized, searchable, and always available.