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. 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.