Who it’s for
ABD doctoral students — especially first-generation scholars — ready to move from circling the topic to building the study.
You don’t need to be perfect. You need to be purposeful and defensible. If your topic feels too big, too narrow, or just stuck, you’re not behind — you’re at the part nobody taught you how to do.
It walks you through the decisions that make a study align — problem, questions, design, and method that actually fit together.
ABD doctoral students — especially first-generation scholars — ready to move from circling the topic to building the study.
Alignment is the through-line: every decision is checked against your research questions, the way Aligned Assessment keeps a course honest.
Membership will keep you moving with new material and a community working on the same hard things.