Dr.App: essential information for institutions with licences

We’re delighted that a growing number of institutions are buying licences for Dr.App, and we’re even happier when we see those licences being used.  We want you and your PGRs to get good value from Dr.App.

Dr.App is our ‘PhD companion’ which started life as a mobile app for Apple and Android. It is now rebuilt as a web-based service, where it runs more reliably! 

To get your PGRs and staff using Dr.App, your internal communications are crucial, when you initially roll it out, when new PGRs enrol, and through the year. These two documents are essential:

– Here is a checklist of advice to help you (version 5, August 2025). We suggest printing it out and referring to it once a month.  Let us know if you have other suggestions we can share.

If you have licences, please download this pdf flyer which you can circulate to your PGRs and relevant staff (and maybe print to display in any appropriate places on your campus). This includes instructions for your users to register and log in. 
 

Zoom webinars. We offer occasional live sessions on Zoom to universities with Dr.App licences (one per academic year per institution) to screen some of the videos and discuss the issues raised. These have attracted very positive feedback from students, and they help raise awareness of Dr.App and engagement with it. A PGR recently commented, “Thank you – this is one of the most helpful and illuminating sessions I have attended while researching my PhD. You have given me a lot of confidence. I get a lot of support from my supervisors, but they can’t do or be everything.”

We want to hear from you:

* if you, your staff or students have any comments or suggestions about Dr.App or want to suggest new content.

* if you or anyone have any difficulties in registering accounts or accessing Dr.App.

* if you need to know how many users have registered from your institution.  You might want to check the list of names from time to time, to delete unwanted accounts and free up space for others.

* or if you’d just like to say hello and have a friendly chat! steve@angelproductions.co.uk