Dr. Sloane Signal (PhD)

After more than 20 years in higher education, Sloane knows exactly where doctoral students get stuck. As a chair of doctoral studies, she watched capable students sail through their coursework, then stall when they reached the dissertation, with nobody showing them how to get it moving again. She became a dissertation coach to fix that.

Sloane works especially well with adult learners and working professionals who are juggling a degree alongside everything else. Her approach is to demystify the dissertation process, so you spend less time trying to work out what your program expects and more time producing work you’re proud of.

Quick facts

Supported approaches: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods
Favorite data collection methods: Interviews, observations, field notes, case studies and questionnaires
Analysis method specialties: Thematic analysis, narrative analysis, phenomenology (including IPA), grounded theory, regression and ANOVA
Research interests: Higher education, educational leadership, organizational behavior and multicultural experiences in academia
Favorite software: NVivo, Excel, ATLAS.ti, MaxQDA, Dedoose and Qualtrics

Experience

Most recently, Sloane served as Program Chair in the Department of Doctoral Studies at Colorado Technical University, where she oversaw doctoral students from coursework through to their dissertations. Before that, she was an Assistant Professor at Xavier University of Louisiana, Sequence Coordinator for Advertising and Public Relations at Howard University, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

She’s also an active researcher. Her work, published under the name Sloane Signal DeBose, has appeared in Organizational Research Methods and Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, covering topics from interrater agreement to workplace safety and employment discrimination.

Qualifications

Sloane holds a PhD in Urban Higher Education from Jackson State University. She also earned an MBA from Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, where she later completed doctoral coursework in organizational behavior. If you’re ready to get your dissertation moving again, Sloane’s here to help.