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Who we are
Academic Consulting is an Auckland-based research company. Whether you’re in need of some research training, or you’re short on time and resources and want to outsource the work to us, our range of services will meet your needs and help you reach your research goals.
We specialise in qualitative and mixed methods research, and have particular expertise with NVivo and SPSS. As our company name suggests, we primarily work with researchers from the university sector, but we have clients from a range of other areas including the non-for-profit, government and corporate sectors. We work with clients who have a range of experience levels, from novices through to experienced researchers, and enjoy helping researchers achieve the best possible outcomes for their research. Whether you’re based in New Zealand or elsewhere in the world, contact us to find out how we can help with your research needs.
Our talented team is led by our Director, Dr Lyn Lavery. She’ll ensure that your training course, research project or document is matched to the best team member for the job. Lyn established Academic Consulting in 1999 following a successful career in the tertiary sector. Her PhD was in educational psychology, specifically examining the area of self-regulated learning. She’s originally a quantitative researcher, but now mostly works on qualitative or mixed methods projects. Lyn believes that all research approaches have their place in the complex world we live in, and that it is important to select and work with research methods and methodologies that best suit the question at hand. Her love of teaching and education, alongside her flexible teaching style and engaging sense of humour, contribute to an outstanding reputation as a training facilitator. As anyone who has worked with Lyn will know, she is incredibly enthusiastic about research and data analysis software – she is an NVivo Platinum Certified Trainer and has previously trained for SPSS NZ.
Key metrics
We’ve been operating since
1999
nationally and internationally
and completed...
1,568
research consultations
2,852
training courses and webinars
152
qualitative research projects
84
quantitative research projects
1,356
theses and articles formatted
588
theses and articles proofread
What our clients say about us
Raewyn Eden27 May 2024Research Accelerator serves as both a repository of super valuable resources for emerging and experienced researchers alike, and a community that brings researchers together to support and encourage each other in what can otherwise be somewhat lonely work. The daily co-working sessions and ongoing chat about everything productivity-related are highlights for me and have definitely supported my development as a researcher...and we have so much FUN together! :)Lisa Burton-Harris27 May 2024Research Accelerator membership has been an absolute game changer for me. I joined RA as a PhD student writing an interdisciplinary thesis using mixed methods. The videos are incredibly useful and practical. Service support is top notch with every question answered promptly and insightfully. The RA community stop me from feeling lonely, a common PhD sensation, and motivate me to keep going when adversity comes my way. I recommend the RA membership to anyone wanting to give themselves every opportunity to succeed in research no matter what the situation or perspective. It is true value for money.Annette Rotherham27 May 2024Research Accelerator is an amazing online community of researchers. Research can be isolating, confusing and stressful. The opportunity to meet regularly and share ideas, triumphs and tribulations is valuable beyond explanation. The amount of work I have achieved and motivation I receive due to this online environment is amazing. Lyn Lavery has done a brilliant job of creating this space that is dynamic and responsive to our needs.Jenny Care27 May 2024I have been a member of Research Accelerator for over two years and have remained so because I've found a sense of community that has helped sustain me during the long years of my PhD candidature. I have gained so much from the membership; access to all sorts of helpful on demand courses, one-on-one sessions with Lyn to answer questions specific to my research as well as a community space to get answers to questions, shut up & research sessions every day of the week and a virtual space to hang out and research with others outside these sessions, a book club, amazing speakers and workshop presenters, and regular virtual writing retreats to make solid progress on my research. Lyn is always finding ways to add to the membership offerings which gets better and better. Most important to me is to get answers to questions and any question I have can be answered by Lyn, Andrew, Ruth or one of the members. Research Accelerator really is a unique membership opportunity for researchers and student researchers. It's an amazing group to be part of.Megan Flint27 May 2024I have had a Research Accelerator membership for eighteen months or so. Initially I signed up to access the amazing array of training videos and the annual conference. However, in the past few months I have also begun to join in the daily organisation and research sessions. I love feeling part of a community again after months of working alone and feeling isolated. Lyn is so prompt and generous with her responses and advice and the training videos are a veritable treasure chest! The other members are also very helpful - it's like crowd-sourcing research assistance! 😂 The resources and activities wide-ranging and easy to access. I am grateful to be part of such a supportive, collaborative group. I highly recommend this membership.Jane Lee26 May 2024Being a PhD student, I have found the Research Accelerator membership offered by Academic Consulting to be invaluable. The live writing/research sessions are a great way to keep me on track when I'm lacking a bit of motivation, and the training videos are very helpful. And Lyn is very generous with sharing her wealth of knowledge. I highly recommend a Research Accelerator membership if you are a PhD student!Natalia Albert26 May 2024I would not have finished my master's without Lyn and her wonderful team at Research Accelerator. And I would definitely not have felt as confident to start a PhD if I didn't know Research Accelerator was out there. It's easy, practical, simple to use, and the impact it has on my research skills, my confidence, and my well-being has been tenfold. It's really hard to describe how much benefit I have gotten out of being a member of RA. I can't recommend it enough.Melissa Rowthorn26 October 2023A++ service, Andrew was a great teacher, provided resources to help empower me to learn and offered technical speciality in formatting, his APA7 knowledge is far better than any Ai you will ever find ... I think he IS the APA7 Ai ... don't look past this business they are the best, thank you so much for all the moral support, positivity, and technical knowhow ... definitely made the difference for me in the completion of my thesis 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻jamba tobden27 March 2022Research Accelerator is (a research teaching, mentoring and focusing) indeed everything of research. I learned a lot in the last one month from Research Accelerator and I will renew my membership for another one year. I would like to inform the researchers to join Research Accelerator membership to know your research well. No matter if you are a beginning researcher or a mid-career researcher, Research Accelerator will guide and mentor your research.Liz Binns6 October 2021I signed up to the Research Accelerator 1-year membership after doing their NVivo course...I wish I had known about the membership before as all that course content and WAY more is at your fingertips whenever you want/need it. Lyn is incredibly responsive if I can't find exactly what I am after, and the live Q&A sessions are great to be able to ask specifics and learn from other people's questions. The Shut Up & Write sessions are fantastic - spending 3 hours with zoomies working helps negate the feeling that the rest of the world is having fun while I am labouring over a computer. Adding a Research Accelerator membership and Lyn to my PhD support team and engaging with all the opportunities on offer was the best decision I made in 2020!Load more
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