Making academia better, one researcher at a time, since 2023
RURU are mentoring the next generation of scientists one researcher at a time.
We're a team of award-winning researchers devoted to making quality supervision globally accessible. Mentoring PhDs takes time and expertise. And we've got both.
PhD students need our help
dropout before degree completion
can't find help beyond supervisor
exceed their funding window of 3-4 years
suffer from mental health issues
Why we're building the World's best PhD mentoring platform
“After 12 years in academia, I watched so many brilliant minds have their flame for scientific research extinguished by poor supervision.
I was lucky to get a great supervisor who had time for me. But not all PhD students are so lucky.
The academic system has burdened PIs with too much - and it's their students who suffer. How can one person be expected to teach classes, mark exams, generate funding, do research and supervise postgrads?
The reality is that supervisors just don't have the time to provide effective mentorship.
So, I decided to do something about it.”
- Dr. Matt Biddick, Founder & Senior Ecologist
Honestly, no one does PhD mentoring like us
RURU was created because no platform like it exists. We pair PhD students and postdocs with top researchers in their field, giving them access to regular feedback without the worry of pestering their supervisor or dilution of their research papers with yet another author.
We have PhD mentors all over the world, from all walks of science. And unlike university professors, they can focus entirely on mentorship without disctraction.
By popular demand, our services have expanded beyond 1:1 PhD mentoring to include other kinds of support researchers need, like scientific editing & proofreading, data analytics & visualization, presentation coaching, and career coaching.
PhD Mentoring
Regular video calls with a top performing researcher in your field, trained in mentorship.
Scientific Editing
Rapid turnaround, high quality scientific editing, proofreading and copyediting.
Data Analytics & Visualization
High performance R & python for wrangling, testing and graphing big data.
Presentation Coaching
Trade secrets to flawless verbal presentations from veteran keynote speakers.
Career Coaching
Tailored cover letters, resume/CV templates and job application reviews from senior faculty staff.
Meet the experts
A team of award-winning researchers devoted to providing the best online phd mentoring service.
Dr. Matt Biddick
Chief Executive Officer / Senior Ecologist
Dr. Julia Schmack
Senior Ecologist & Entomologist
Dr. Giovanna Grigolon
Molecular & Aging Biologist
Dr. Marco La Fortezza
Evolutionary Microbiologist
"Extremely helpful and insightful"
"Being coached by someone who has been a postdoc, understands writing and publishing, and has navigated many application processes made a significant diffference compared to traditional coaching."
- Dr. Marie Suennemann, iDiv Postdoctoral Researcher
Our vision to make academia better
We aim to be the platform for early career researchers
(ECRs). We want RURU to be synonymous with where ECRs go, not only
for online PhD mentoring, but also for proven strategies to
writing high impact research papers quickly and without
resistence.
Whether it be through free content like our weekly
blog articles,
youtube videos
and online learning courses, or through paid channels like
PhD mentoring,
scientific editing & proofreading, or career coaching, we want to make academia great again (pun
intended).
In other words, we want our clients to wonder:
“Why isn’t anyone else doing this?”.
Better yet, we want departments who partner with us to ask
themselves:
“Why didn’t we do this years ago?”.
New Zealand owned.
Globally operated.
New Zealand has a reputation for punching above its weight. We're no exception. Our roots may be local but our mindset is well and truly global. If anyone can bring some good to academia, it's a group of authentic kiwis hiring the world's best phd mentoring talent to train the next generation of scientsits.*
* Because the world has enough billion dollar publishing houses shipping your work off to India for easy profit...
