The DoctorateHub consists of a number of academic tutors from across the globe that all have a vast experience in doctoral education, be it in person or virtual. Many of the DoctorateHub tutors wear a number of heads and often hold positions within academia or the private sector.
We attempt to grow our network of tutors in a way that allows to get our students covered and to cater to their particular needs in accordance to their research project, the subject, methods used, or their geographic location.
The coordination and development efforts of the DoctorateHub are steered by Andreas and Ana, which we introduce in the below.
Dr. Andreas Meiszner, PhD
Andreas is driving the strategy, technology and service development at the DoctorateHub. And he continues to be an active tutor as much as the time allows for.
Andreas has been a portfolio worker for most parts of his career and is constantly looking for opportunities where to apply his knowledge and analytical skills. Since 2012, Andreas has tutored, mentored and coached beyond 500 professional doctoral students (mid-level to senior executives, aged 35 to 70); initially with the University of Liverpool Management School’s Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program (UK) and since 2016 also with the DoctorateHub.com. This allowed him to understand how to tackle problems at scale, be it the tame, the complex, or the wicked. 500+ students also implies 500+ workplace-based problems which he had the chance to look at. Together with Ana, Andreas also is the co-founder and managing partner of SCIO (PT), a research, capacity building and consultancy company that specializes in Knowledge, Innovation and Organizational projects in a varied number of fields from across Science, Technology and Sustainability. Andreas has a track record as Principal Investigator in numerous research, training and capacity building projects within Europe and across the globe. He has been for example responsible for coordinating and overseeing the academic work of internal and external research teams from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin-America; as well as managing and implementing physical and virtual business and technology training programs across Africa. Andreas holds three higher education degrees in management from universities in France, Germany and The Netherlands, and with majors in ‘International Management’ and in ‘Human Resources and Organizational Management’. He obtained his PhD in 2011 from The Open University (UK) for his work carried out at their Institute of Educational Technologies and that is titled ‘The Emergence of Free / Open Courses - Lessons from the Open Source Movement’.
Dr. Ana Faria, PhD
Ana is the one who keeps things together and assures that everyone is covered. As a mother of twin-boys, Ana also knows how to bring calm into disruption. A lesson that she happily shares.
Intrapreneur and entrepreneur by nature, over the past two decades Dr. Ana Faria has been acting as Project Advisor, Project Manager, Business Developer, Principle Investigator, Business Consultant, Mentor and Coach, and for a variety of organisations and clients from the private and public sector. Cross cutting areas that Ana has been working at during that time are ICT, Innovation and the development of technology-based systems in support of change, decision-making and sustainable development. Her motherhood in 2014 lead to a career refocus towards business consultancy, entrepreneurship, honorary lecturing and doctoral coaching and mentoring assignments. Ana holds a PhD from the Engineering and Innovation Department at the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, The Open University UK, that has been awarded for her thesis in the area of behavioural economics, titled “The role of behaviour in the transition to more energy efficient use at home”. Ana’s research combined positivist and constructivist paradigms, so to allow for both: to statistically analyse the data, whilst also allowing for an exploration of the complex set of variables that influence human behaviour. Ana also holds a degree in Economics from the Universidade do Minho (PT), a degree in International Management from the RSM Erasmus University (NL), and a Master in Business Administration in International Industrial Management from the Esslingen University of Applied Science, a MBA program that had been developed to cater the needs of international senior staff from local enterprises such Behr, Bosch, Daimler, Festo, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kärcher, Modine, Porsche or Siemens.
