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HOW TO TELL YOUR STORY AND GET IT PUBLISHED (OR FUNDED)

Our workshops on writing for biologists teaches researchers at various levels very important writing skills and will provide them with key insights about the scientific publishing landscape so that they can better tell their story and get it published

Led by Howard Browman and Jan Pechenik

Our Services

Manuscript Writing and Publishing, and Proposal Writing Workshops

Our writing workshops are specifically designed for biologists, and especially for advanced graduate students, post-docs, and new faculty. The workshops cover not only how to write great manuscripts effectively and efficiently, but also how to go about getting those manuscripts published.

Talks

Communicating science effectively, whether to other scientists, the media, policy makers or to the general public, is an essential skill for scientists. We must be able to communicate concisely, accurately, logically, convincingly, and in a way that will be clearly understood by the target audience, and hopefully also be interesting!

Why work with us?

We have decades of experience training researchers to think and write clearly, logically, and convincingly, to display their data in especially effective ways, and thus to get their papers accepted for publication and to get their grant proposals funded. Our workshops help authors organize their time in preparing to write and, during the writing process, to write clearly, convincingly, logically, and in very readable way. This increases the likelihood of a manuscriptr being accepted, being read, and being cited. The material covered in these workshops will also help authors prepare effective research funding proposals.

What
differentiates
our workshops

The information, tools and insights that we offer in our workshops are based on our many years of experience.

Together, we have:

combined >90 years of experience as researchers, teachers, lecturers and research project developers-managers;
Authored >300 peer reviewed articles published in leading international journals;
Developed-written >100 successful grant proposals;
Written 1000s of peer reviews for >100 different journals;
Written 100s of grant proposal reviews for >20 agencies worldwide;
Written a leading text book on the biology of Invertebrates (now in its 7th edition);
Written a leading text book on writing for biologists (now in its 9th edition);
Edited several quartile-one international research journals – currently Editor-in-Chief of ICES Journal of Marine Science;
Had a leading role in the publication committees of international societies;
Played a leading role in setting best practice in scholarly publishing, including publication ethics, through roles with the Council of Science Editors (member of the Editorial Policy Committee) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (member of Council and Trustee Board);
Deep Knowledge of the criteria used in institutional research assessment.

This combination of long experience and deep knowledge represents an exceptionally broad basis from which we can offer participants in our workshop insight into all aspects of scientific writing, publishing and other forms of dissemination.

An example of a previous project

Click here to see a syllabus from a recent workshop

Testimonials

…I would like to thank you both for one of the most useful workshops I have attended since starting my PhD.

Kind regards,

…I wish to thank you both for taking time out to help myself and I am sure the future up and coming scientists in explaining the process of scientific writing at your workshop in Edinburgh. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole day learning how to write a little more concisely and in a more direct way. Both these concepts are very little understood when I was first starting my Ph.D and now that I am in my final year this workshop couldn’t have come at a more useful time. The information I obtained during the workshop will (hopefully) allow me to have a better understanding of how to write in a more concise and direct way not only for my thesis but for any future publications I write. Nick Jones and I have commented on more than one occasion (since we returned to Bangor University) on how this type of course would be very beneficial not only to 1st year M. Biology student here at Bangor but also to Masters and Ph.D students. Please keep up the good work. Kind Regards,

…I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you both very much for holding the workshop. It was the highlight of the conference for me. Best wishes,

…Thanks once again for what was a really interesting and motivating workshop!

…Jan and Howard bounce off each other brilliantly, both adding insight where necessary. The informality made it much easier to ask questions. Thank you very much.

…Everything was covered in clear detail and was easily understood. Keep up the good work. And thanks!