A paid one-on-one research apprenticeship that teaches postgraduate researchers to diagnose a research problem, design a study, and defend it — by working alongside a named professor for twelve weeks.
A short film on the problem PRA answers.
Each artifact is a working output. Together they form the researcher's diagnostic and publication pipeline.
A six-part honest map of where the research actually stands — positioning, problem, architecture, production, bottlenecks, roadmap.
A problem statement that has been pulled apart from the topic, evidenced, and defended — not just named.
What is known, what is contested, what is missing — and precisely where the researcher's contribution sits.
At least one article extracted from the research, architected for a real journal or platform, and reviewed to publication standard.
A written method the researcher can carry forward: how they diagnose, design, and defend research on their own.
Every innovation in the Lab has a provenance — a field, an article, a demand, a programme.
Postgraduate researchers working in isolation, without the sustained supervision that turns a topic into a defensible research problem.
The BSI Weekly piece that asked whether the Socratic approach could yield relief for the postgraduate researcher working alone.
A 12-week, one-on-one apprenticeship that teaches research as a craft — session by session, artifact by artifact.
A working, examinable model for one-on-one supervised research training — adoptable by any institution that wants to run a PRA of its own.
Short downloadable frameworks and templates. No signup needed.
The six-part structure used to assess where a researcher's work actually stands — positioning, problem, architecture, production, bottlenecks, roadmap.
The one-page brief every PRA researcher completes in Week 1 to turn a topic into a defensible research question.
The handbook a professor uses to run a PRA — session structure, feedback conventions, review standards, progression criteria.
Innovations in the Lab are prototypes and early builds. If you want to help this one go further — as a partner, a funder, or an investor — there is a path.
Bring the PRA into your own institution. Pilot it as a supervised research apprenticeship in your department or faculty, with your own professors as supervisors. Includes pilot deployment, supervisor training, and co-development of new research themes.
Start a partnershipSponsor a cohort of researchers through the apprenticeship. Your support is named in apprenticeship materials and in the published outputs of the researchers you fund. Includes quarterly progress reviews with the team.
Fund a cohortTake an equity or revenue-share position in PRA as a product for higher-education institutions. Includes early access to the operating model, the assessment framework, and a structured investment conversation.
Discuss investmentWorking prototypes that can be adopted, adapted, funded, or invested in. Whichever you need, the next step is the same.
