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First-Class Dissertations

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Online Dissertation Tutoring

I’ve helped hundreds of students achieve first-class dissertations through ethical, rigorous, patient, motivating and highly structured tutoring. I am Dr Johan de Borst, a dissertation specialist in business, marketing and economics. I work one-to-one with ambitious final-year undergraduate students as well as Masters, MBA, DBA & PhD candidates at leading UK & European universities. Contact me through WhatsApp or Book a Free intro session today and we can discuss your thesis.

The aim: To help you deliver your best possible dissertation. My approach is ethical, rigorous, patient, motivating and highly structured. I am also your peak performance coach: results oriented and competitively priced.

Ethical
Rigorous
Patient & Motivating
Highly Structured
Results Oriented
Competitively Priced
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"Notable Recent Success (2025): Cambridge University student achieved 1st in dissertation."

Dr. Johan

J. P. de Borst (PhD, MBA, BComm.)

3500+ ★★★★★ Ratings on Spires

PhD in Entrepreneurship Research (Applied Economics, Behavioral Economics) Strathclyde University, Scotland • MBA Babson College, Boston • Bachelor of Commerce UCD, Dublin.

Universities

Students from Leading Universities

I have worked with students from many of the world’s most respected universities and business schools, including:

University of Cambridge
University of Leeds
University of Oxford
Durham University
Imperial College London
London School of Economics
University College London
University College Dublin
University of Birmingham
University of Manchester
HEC Paris
London Business School
University of St Andrews
University of Strathclyde
IE University Spain

A Safe Place: All Are Welcome

I am driven by values of intellectual integrity, freedom and rigor. As such this is a safe place where driven students of all backgrounds are welcome. I certainly do not discriminate by ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality or disability.

Tutor-Student Confidentiality

All students are guaranteed privacy; everything that is said in our sessions remains private and confidential in perpetuity.

Holistic Support

Dissertation Structure

I provide rigorous academic guidance across every chapter of your thesis.

1. Abstract

Support Provided: I guide you through the concision of thousands of words into a precise, high-impact summary. You'll ensure your abstract clearly states the problem, methods, key findings, and implications: often the first thing an examiner reads to judge quality.

2. Introduction

Support Provided: You'll craft a compelling 'hook' and clearly articulate the research gap, the "Why It's Important". I guide you to formulate precise Research Questions (RQs) and Research Objectives that are answerable and aligned with your university's marking rubric.

3. Literature Review

Support Provided: Over the last 9 years I've developed a fast track-systematic literature review process that gets results; it's designed to get you into the high performance zone quickly. Focusing on the main constructs of your dissertation you'll quickly develop a first draft containing the literature dominant in your field of study; identifying methods and core findings, in order to make a clear contribution.

4. Theoretical Model / Framework

Support Provided: The literature review will have allowed you to deduce your hypotheses; in this section you'll translate these into your econometric model.

5. Themes & Interview Questions (Qualitative)

Support Provided: Derived from you induced themes from the literature review, I coach you in designing interview guides that elicit rich data. You'll also conduct practice interviews with me so you know what to expect.

6. Methodology

Support Provided: You'll be trained to provide a strong technical defense for your chosen philosophy (Positivism vs Interpretivism), sampling strategy, and analytical techniques (Regression vs Thematic Analysis). You'll ensure every choice is justified academically.

7. Findings / Results

Support Provided: For Quants: Interpreting STATA output and formatting professional academic tables. For Quals: structuring your narrative with evidence quotes. You'll ensure you report exactly what the data says, without overreaching.

8. Discussion

Support Provided: This is where top grades are secured. You'll critically link your findings back to the literature review. You'll explain why your results matter and how they extend current knowledge.

9. Conclusion

Support Provided: Drafting a powerful closing chapter that summarizes contributions, honestly assesses limitations, and offers practical recommendations for future research or practice & policy.

Process

How It Works

Let’s Get Started: Reserve your spot, before it’s gone

We begin with a free 45 minute introductory session over Google Meets to see if we’re a good fit. You should feel calmer and more in control by the end of the session.

Students I work with often say they felt overwhelmed before we started. I reduce that anxiety within the first 45 minutes during the free intro call. We do this by establishing:

  • A clear research question that fits the marketing criteria.
  • A realistic timeline and chapter plan for the dissertation.
  • Confidence about which methods and data will work for their question.
  • A concrete plan for the next one or two weeks of work.
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Free intro session

Diagnostic and planning call via Google Meet. This is where you can see if we're a good fit.


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Clear plan & structure

We map out the road ahead so you know exactly what to do. You're provided a planner, dissertation template; and homework to get you into the high performance zone.

3

Focused weekly sessions

Keeping you on-track with the highest quality tutoring; ensuring academic development and excellence.

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Dissertation Reviews

As required, in depth detailed reviews and ethically compliant comments designed to push quality higher.

PEAK STATE: High Performance Coach

Yes, I provide deep subject matter expertise and technical knowledge, however, I am also a peak performance specialist and your high stakes coach.

High Performance Zone: A state of Flow

I get you into the high performance zone swiftly using the theory of Flow by Csikszentmihaly (1990; 2014). Not too easy, not too difficult.

The secret to getting yourself into the state of flow is by setting yourselves tasks that are neither too easy nor too difficult.

We Start with the Literature

We always begin by a task designed to get you into that state; a fast track to the lit review.

"You should feel strong, alert, in effortless control and at the peak of your abilities, both your sense of time and emotional problems seem to disappear as you experience deep satisfaction in the quality of your work."

— Dr. Johan [adapted from Csikszentmihalyi]

Logistics

Google Tools We’ll Use For Sessions, Planning & Sharing

Google Meet

All sessions are run through Google Meet where we share screens and work together.

Google Sheets

A private shared Dissertation Master plan is how we keep you on track.

Google Drive

All Documents are exchanged by a private shared Google drive folder.

WhatsApp

As a student of Dr Johan, you receive his private WhatsApp number where you can ask him detailed technical questions for free in between sessions.

WHAT

Subject Matter Expertise

Economics

I tutor across micro and macro economics, with strong econometric grounding in regression, panel data, and time-series methods. I can help you master core concepts such as elasticity, market structure, and growth models. For those so inclined; I also assist in integrating critical-realist and anti-positivist perspectives so you can discuss not only “what the numbers say” but also their theoretical and real-world limits.

Behavioral Economics

I support students in understanding how insights from Kahneman and Tversky, prospect theory, and bounded rationality reshape standard economic assumptions. We will link experiments and behavioral econometrics to questions of welfare, policy design, and methodological critique, including how anti-positivist themes challenge purely rational or purely quantitative views of human behavior.

Applied Economics & Entrepreneurship

My expertise bridges empirical economics with entrepreneurial practice, including development of testable hypotheses, model specification, and interpretation of econometric evidence in venture and policy contexts. I work extensively with effectuation theory (Sarasvathy), opportunity recognition, and entrepreneurial ecosystems, helping you connect rigorous empirical work with real-world entrepreneurial decisionmaking and critical perspectives on what “success” means.

Business

I cover core business disciplines: operations, organizational behaviour, international business; always grounding models in data and evidence while remaining attentive to context, institutions, and ethics. You can learn to connect classical quantitative analysis (NPV, cost structures, productivity, etc.) with broader theoretical debates about agency, power, and uncertainty that are central at advanced undergraduate, master’s, and PhD level.

Marketing

I tutor the full marketing toolkit: from segmentation, targeting, and positioning to branding and digital strategy; anchored in the major frameworks associated with Kotler and subsequent theorists. Together we connect these models to empirical methods (e.g. demand estimation, conjoint analysis, campaign evaluation) and to interpretive, anti-positivist readings of consumer culture, identity, and meaning.

Strategy

I provide support to all areas taught including Porter’s competitive strategy, resource-based and dynamic capability perspectives approaches to industry analysis. I help you move from applying frameworks in a mechanical way to using them critically and empirically, combining qualitative case analysis with quantitative evidence and philosophical reflection on complexity, uncertainty, and strategic choice.

Quantitative & Qualitative Dissertation Methods

Quantitative projects (STATA)

Support with survey or secondary data projects using STATA and applied econometrics, including:

  • Translating your research question into testable hypotheses. Choosing appropriate models (e.g. regressions, panel models) and explaining why they fit.
  • Building and checking STATA do-files step by step.
  • Interpreting output in clear academic language. Writing method, results and discussion chapters that more than satisfy examiners.

Qualitative projects

For qualitative dissertations I help you design, analyse and write up using:

  • Narrative analysis of interview or case material.
  • Thematic analysis aligned with your research questions. Axial coding to connect themes and build a coherent framework.
  • Structuring findings so they remain grounded in your data. Linking your analysis back to theory and literature.

Structure, writing & accountability

We work with a shared master plan and document workspace so that:

  • Every chapter has a clear role and structure.
  • Your arguments are logical, critical and well signposted.
  • Sessions end with a short list of specific next actions.
  • You stay on top of deadlines for proposals, drafts and final submission.
WHY

Student Results & Testimonials

My tutoring has been reviewed thousands of times on professional platforms, maintaining a 5.0 rating across 3,500+ sessions. Here is a selection of comments from past students:

"By far the best tutor I have ever worked with. Exceptionally skilled at spotting what matters and explaining it clearly."

Mishary ’96 MBA Dissertation

"Johan saved my dissertation. He brought structure, calm and a clear plan when I was overwhelmed."

Final-year undergraduate, UK

"I cannot express how incredible Dr Johan is. He is extremely professional, excellent in his field, supportive and genuinely cares about his students’ success."

Postgraduate student, UK

"Johan’s support has been exemplary. He will challenge or encourage when you need it most and is incredibly responsive. I honestly do not think I would have completed my PhD without his guidance."

PhD

"Great at explanation and lots of detailed comments to improve the dissertation."

Sonyta – Dissertations

"Johan is simply outstanding. Thank you for your support."

Marwan – Academic Writing

"There are no words to explain how great Dr Johan is. I highly recommend him to any student going through complete darkness. You are not alone, get in touch with him and he will show you the light."

Mohammed – Research Methods

"I was in a very dark place with my thesis. Johan showed me step by step how to get back on track. I would not have graduated without him."

Masters student, Europe

"As a full-time executive doing an MBA, I needed efficiency and honesty. Johan delivered exactly that and helped me secure a distinction."

MBA executive, Middle East

"Every session left me clearer and more confident. He breaks everything down into manageable steps and keeps you accountable without ever making you feel judged."

Undergraduate student, Europe

"What sets Johan apart is how invested he becomes in your project. He remembers details from weeks ago and keeps track of the big picture when you feel lost in the detail."

Postgraduate dissertation student, UK

"He is amazing, very kind and supportive."

Tania – Academic Writing

"I can’t express how incredible Dr Johan is. I wholeheartedly recommend him to any student facing tough times. Thank you, Dr Johan."

Mishary – Business Studies

"His feedback is razor-sharp and kind at the same time. He challenged me to improve every chapter, not just pass."

PhD candidate, UK

"I always felt like he was in my corner. He knew exactly what examiners wanted and how to get me there."

Business Management BSc, UK

"Dr Johan is the far best tutor here. I highly recommend him. He is exceptionally talented and skilled, quickly identifying gaps in your research and steering you in the right direction."

Mohammed – Research Methods

"As usual… best Dr I worked with. Thank you Dr Johan."

Shareena – Business Studies

"Very committed to helping me understand complex concepts and very patient guiding me through challenging assignments. He helped me become more confident with my work. A pleasure to work with."

Ella – Marketing

"Always excellent."

Marwan – Academic Writing

"Another brilliant lesson with Dr Johan. Always goes out of his way to find time and get the work I need done."

Kia – University

AFFORDABLE

Packages & Pricing From £70 Per Hour

Price includes unlimited Whatsapp and Email chat inbetween sessions

All sessions are 60-minute one-to-one online meetings. My standard rate for ad-hoc support is £90 per hour. Substantial discounts for students who commit to working with me by purchasing larger packages.

Ad-Hoc

£90
Per Hour
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5 Hour Package

£75
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10 Hour Package

£70
Per Hour
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After we have decided to work together I will send you a summary of our agreement with terms and a private payment page where you can decide which package to purchase.

FAQs For Final-Year Students

Do you work only with undergraduates?

No. I work with final-year undergraduates, Masters, MBA, DBA and PhD students. This page is focused on final-year undergraduate dissertations because they are often decisive for your overall degree classification.

Do you write or edit the dissertation for me?

No. My role is to help you plan, analyse, structure and improve your own work so that it is ethical, original and aligned with your university regulations. I will leave detailed comments throughout however, you must remain the author at all times.

Can you help if my data or methods are already chosen?

Yes. Many students come to me after they have already collected data or made early choices about methods. We can still work together to strengthen the analysis, clarify the structure and refine the writing.

Can you guarantee a First?

No tutor can guarantee a specific grade. However, my success rate is very high. I can’t promise it will be easy; you’ll work harder than you’ve ever done before. What I can guarantee is experienced, structured guidance that helps you submit work that is as strong, clear and technically sound as possible.

BOOK

Book Your Free Introductory Session

The best way to decide if this is right for you is to have a short, focused conversation about your dissertation. There is no obligation to continue.

In your free 45-minute online session we will:

  • Clarify your dissertation topic, brief and marking criteria.
  • Identify the main risks and opportunities for your grade.
  • Discuss whether you need quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods support.
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