Acadexus PhD Research Planner & Thesis Progress Toolkit
Your PhD is complex. Managing it doesn't have to be.
Bring the moving parts together. See what needs attention. Decide what to do next.
A connected research-management system that helps doctoral researchers organise the moving parts of their PhD, connect day-to-day work with the wider journey, and make clearer decisions about what needs attention next.
More than a planner
The Acadexus PhD Research Planner & Thesis Progress Toolkit is designed for PhD and other doctoral researchers who want a more structured way to manage the interconnected parts of their doctorate.
Rather than treating your research as a collection of disconnected tasks, the toolkit brings together the wider doctoral journey, milestones, thesis development, literature work, supervision, research activity, weekly execution, progress review and recovery.
What's included
Your purchase includes:
- 64-page Core Guide — structured guidance for managing the interconnected parts of doctoral research.
- 31 reusable worksheet types — practical tools for thinking through decisions, diagnosing issues and planning action.
- Excel Progress Tracker — an optional live-tracking system for keeping important research information visible.
- START HERE guide — a short introduction to help you begin using the toolkit.
- Individual-Use Licence & Terms — clear guidance on permitted use.
How the system works
Understand → Think & Decide → Maintain where useful
- Use the Core Guide to understand the issue, principle or part of the doctorate you're working on.
- Use the Reusable Worksheets when you need to think through questions, diagnose issues or make clearer decisions.
- Use the Excel Progress Tracker where information benefits from being maintained, reviewed, sorted or updated over time.
The Excel Progress Tracker is optional. You can use the Core Guide and Worksheets without maintaining the workbook, and add Excel where live tracking is useful.
You don't need to use everything at once. Start with the lightest part of the system that solves the problem.
Nine connected areas of doctoral research
- PhD Compass & Research Foundation
- PhD Roadmap & Timeline
- Milestone Manager
- Thesis Chapter Manager
- Literature Review Control Centre
- Supervisor Meeting & Feedback System
- Research Activity Manager
- Weekly Research Execution
- Progress Review & Recovery
A more meaningful way to review progress
Review progress without reducing your doctorate to an artificial completion percentage.
Doctoral progress is not simply a percentage. The toolkit helps you examine what is moving, what needs attention, where dependencies or bottlenecks exist, and what action is appropriate next—without pretending that academic quality or doctoral completion can be reduced to a single automated score.
Who is it for?
Designed for PhD and other doctoral researchers who want a more structured way to manage the interconnected parts of their doctorate.
It may be particularly useful if you want to bring greater structure to your research journey, keep important work visible, connect weekly activity to wider doctoral priorities, manage feedback and decisions more systematically, or recover when progress has become difficult to see or manage.
Important to know
Designed to help you manage your doctoral research—not replace your supervisor, institutional guidance or academic judgement.
The toolkit is a research-management resource. It does not assess the academic quality of your research, determine methodological sufficiency, predict successful completion or replace requirements set by your university or supervisory team.
Digital download · £19.99 one-time purchase
Your purchase provides electronic access to the Core Guide, Reusable Worksheets, Excel Progress Tracker, START HERE guide and Individual-Use Licence & Terms.
For product-support enquiries: support@acadexus.com