From a couple of hours to a couple of days, I offer a range of problem-solving and consulting workshops. These include substantial analysis and real-time use of AI language tools (LLMs) for helping to write science. We also delve into the latest insights into how LLMs answer prompts, and how, systematically, to develop excellent prompts and “LLM strategy”. Shorter workshops cover basic advice; longer workshops go into more detail and involve individual one-on-one advice for participants on contributed written works. All workshops are interactive, and they can be performed online or at a venue of the customer’s choice.

Writing and publishing workshops for active researchers, addressing your problems and challenges in the following areas:

• Solving the problem of placing yourself in the role of the reader: guidance based on principles of cognitive psychology
• Advice on getting your specific research found online: the consequences for how it should be written
• Overcoming your writers-block-problem, and the challenge of writing simply but correctly
• Organizing your research findings and planning your manusrcipt
• Writing and submitting your manuscript: what are your particular difficulties?
• Choosing a suitable journal: advice on where to send your particular manuscript
• Between submission and decision point: how to react wisely to editorial decisions and reviewer comments? Participants present their experiences followed by discussion and guidance
• Communications with editorial in a variety of situations: advice from a long-time editor
• Interactive exercises of varying length, concentrating on problem-solving at the interface between you and your intended readership, including group work and analysis of a contributed written piece

Broad or interdisciplinary communication sessions – helping you solve problems of communicating with audiences “outside your box”:

• Addressing your challenges via principles of effective communication, based on cognitive psychology
• Solving problems of communicating with people far outside your research area
• Specific guidance on interacting with the broad media (journalists etc.)
• Role plays illustrating common failings in communication
• Analysis of role plays and correction of failings / analysis and solving of problems
• Practical advice on adapting the communication of your research to different audiences
• Practising the “Elevator pitch”: enabling you to engage anyone rapidly with your research
• Identifying and working on challenges of writing for a readership far outside your research area

Note: These sessions can be configured as public communication of science events, or as consultancy opportunities for researchers who wish to communicate better across disciplinary boundaries.

Grant-application-writing workshops, addressing partipants’ specific problems/challenges and specific type of envisaged funding:

• Can you find the right grant in the jungle of funding? What are your challenges?
• What’s your psychology and strategy? Do you feel confident of maximum success?
• Helping you at an individual level to find the fit between you / your project and grants: one-on-one coaching
• Determining the strength of your case for doing the planned research
• Advice on planning according to a timetable leading up to submission, and taking care of practicalities
• Helping you solve communication problems in order to communicate your planned research optimally
• Interactive exercises of varying length, and one-on-one analysis/correction of contributed grant application texts

Typically, longer workshops that involve one-on-one working and a high degree of interactivity should be limited to around 15 participants. Larger groups are more suited to shorter workshops. I am very flexible in the format and length of workshops, an I am able to adapt existing models to customers’ wishes.

If you are looking for an event that doesn’t quite match any of the above, please ask me whether I could develop one specifically for you.

Please send general workshop enquiries and requests for quotations to me by Email, and I will reply as soon as possible.