Rediscover The Joy In Research
Master your research process with efficiency, ease, and confidence.
About Research Mastery Academy
If you're reading this, you probably feel lost in your research. You want to succeed in your research project, but you feel like you just don't know where to go. How to create your next research project or how to write a research article?
Learning how to perform research makes research fun and interesting instead of stressful and demeaning. For me, learning the system of research allowed me to explore my curiosity without the stress and insecurity of trying to perform research correctly.
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Easily search courses, masterclasses, and tutorials to answer your questions!
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AI Chatbot To Answer Your Questions
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Support Throughout Your Journey
Access to a community to ask your questions and get support.
Explore The Content In Research Mastery Academy
Understanding the state of your field
Develop Your Research Ideas
Test Your Research Ideas
How To stay up-to-date in your research field
Organize Literature
Plan and Collect Your Data
Write a Successful Research Proposal
Notion For PhDs Course
Plan and Collect Your Data
Analyze Your Data
Excel for Scientific Data Analysis Course
Data Analysis in R for Beginners Course
Python Tutorials
How To Create A Story From Data
How To Write An Abstract For A Work In Progress Study
Create Your Story and Find Its Home
Write Your Research Paper
Submitting and Publishing Your Paper
Where to Present Your Research
Making and Presenting: Research Posters
Creating and Presenting: Research Presentations
The Literature Review Process
How to Find and Organize Research Articles for a Literature Review
The Scientific Ph.D. Success Roadmap
How To Become A Successful Researcher
The Modern Way To Learn
Research Mastery Academy embraces the modern way to learn by incorporating AI so that you can consume content in four different ways.
Watch Courses and Playlists
"You don't know, what you don't know."
The different courses and themed content in Research Mastery Academy are organized into playlists so that you can watch the entire system.
This is how you would typically watch a course where one video autoplay into the next video. This is one of the best ways to learn the systems!
Guides and Worksheets
Many videos in Research Mastery Academy have downloadable guides to help you put what you are learning directly into action. This is a great way to apply the systems and skills taught.
Search Keywords
Sometimes you just need information on a specific topic, whether it is a specific software or a research topic. You can search the transcripts and chapters of every video to find the content relevant to your keywords.
Did I mention that each video has a searchable transcript and chapters that show up in the video player?
Chat with AI
Need to ask a specific question? There is a specific AI chatbot that has been trained on the content inside Research Mastery Academy. You can ask a question and get an answer to your question with additional video references for you to watch.
What members are saying!
I greatly appreciate the work put into the Research Mastery Academy. I found this resource in a time I needed it the most. I failed my first round of preliminary exams/comps in 2022. I knew it was things I was missing, I could learn. I found Alana's YouTube channel and just her YouTube videos alone were tremendous help. I invested in the Research Mastery Academy because I wanted to learn more. Alana explains things so well and provides worksheets to help you do it on your own. I like that she teaches us to be researchers no matter the industry or project. She teaches a research process.
TACousins
I recently joined Dr. Alana's Research Mastery Academy course, and I have to say, it's been an incredible resource for improving my research skills. What I appreciate most about her course is that she shares practical methods with relevant examples for conducting research effectively. Dr. Alana breaks down the research process into a structured and easy to understand phases such as learning about our field, formulating plan and how to collect data effectively. Most of the research technique that I read from books are often too general and more applicable to social science area. I learn best from examples and her teaching are filled with many useful examples.
M. Haris
An excellent compilation of research guidance tools and techniques categorized for researchers under different stages of their research.
Vivek
What I find very useful is that I can go directly to the subject I need to learn without having to go through all the lessons. For example, if I need to know or learn about project planning and time management, I can go to that module and begin learning about project planning etc
Etienne
Good foundational material in starting my doctoral journey.
Chris Wellington
Hi! I'm Dr. Alana Rister!
Just like you, I once grappled with the daunting task of research. The fear of not generating original ideas, the frustration of making methodology errors, and the endless hours spent staring at a blank screen trying to craft the perfect introduction.
I realized that research is not just a daunting challenge but a skill set waiting to be mastered, a system waiting to be optimized. That's why I developed my research system, a method honed through trial and error, and powered by cutting-edge software.
My journey from struggling novice to accomplished researcher speaks volumes. In just 3.5 years, I earned my Ph.D. in Chemistry, outpacing the traditional 5-7 year timeline. Along the way, I authored six first-author journal articles, a testament to the effectiveness of my approach.
And now, I'm on a mission to share my system with you. Whether you're a graduate student grappling with your first research project or a seasoned academic seeking to enhance your efficiency, my proven methods can guide you toward success.
Is Research Mastery Academy right for you?
Who this academy is not for
Researchers who have already developed successful research systems.
Researchers who want AI to complete their research for them.
Undergraduate students who are not doing research.
Researchers who do not deal with quantitative or qualitative data.
Who this academy is for
Science and social science researchers
Researchers who want to be more efficient through learning research skills and systems
Researchers who want to ethically incorporate software to help them become more efficient
Graduate students who want to improve their research skills to complete their degree faster and with less stress
Research Mastery Academy
$ 20/month
Research Courses
Masterclasses and software tutorials
Downloadable action guides
Support by asking questions or requesting content
Ability to search across the entire academy
Instant answers with AI-powered chat
Ad-Free YouTube Videos
Master your research at every stage of your research journey!
Imagine 3 months from now, when you have developed a great publishable research question and have been effectively collecting data on your research question.
Now, you are wondering about the most effective way to analyze your data so you go into Research Mastery Academy and search "analyze data". At your fingertips, you get a workshop on how to analyze your data, how to create your research story, and a full course on how to analyze your data in R.
You then quickly learn R and analyze your data. Now, you are ready to write your research article. You jump back into Research Mastery Academy and use the Wisdom AI chatbot to ask "How to write a research article?". It immediately summarizes the Write Your Research Article course to give you an idea, and then, you click the referenced videos and watch the entire course.
After downloading the worksheets, you work step-by-step to complete your research article. A couple of months later, you receive an email that your research article has been accepted in your top choice journal.
The Answers To Your Questions!
Due to the large library of downloadable materials available in Research Mastery Academy, there are no refunds available, but you can cancel at any time.
No, my digital download and template products are not a part of Research Mastery Academy.
The only exception to this is that my Research Article Workbook is based on the worksheets in my Write Your Research Article course. Therefore, most of this workbook is available in the individual worksheets in the course.
There are many worksheets related to videos in the Academy that are available for download within the Academy.
Currently, over 50 of my previous YouTube videos are available in Research Mastery Academy. I have purposely not included out-of-date YouTube videos in Research Mastery Academy to prevent confusion.
My future long-form YouTube videos will be included in Research Mastery Academy as well.
Yes, Research Accelerator, Scientific Dissertation Academy, and Write Your Research Article are available for one-time purchase. You can check out those courses at https://www.sciencegradschoolcoach.com/products. However, these courses are not hosted in the same place as Research Mastery Academy. Therefore, you will not get the features of searchable content or the AI chatbot with the one-time purchase.
Yes, Research Mastery Academy is at researchmasteryacademy.com. Therefore, when you click the JOIN NOW button you will be redirected to researchmasteryacademy.com!
I look forward to seeing you in the Academy.
Yes, there will be additional content added to the Academy! Instead of having a regular release schedule, content will be released as it becomes ready so that you do not have to wait for the next release date to access content that will help you in your research journey!
You can always request new content be added so if there is a software tutorial, masterclass, or course that you need, feel free to request it!
Once you complete your purchase, you will get an email to set up your account details.
Please look for an email from Science Grad School Coach or Searchie to create your account. Once your account is created, you will have access to the entire academy at researchmasteryacademy.com!
No, the chatbot in Research Mastery Academy will specifically give you responses based on my content. You can ask personalized research-based questions if you want advice from my content. However, it is not going to be able to do the broader tasks that ChatGPT and other AI tools are capable of.