Customized Workshops for Your Organization

Our grant development workshops offer grant writing tools, strategies, and actionable advice to help scholars craft compelling proposals that reviewers will want to see succeed. Our facilitator, Erica Machulak, has supported academics to win over $10M in funding by helping them clarify the research narratives underlying complex ideas and articulate the potential impact of their work.

Our research communication workshops offer a framework, tools, and actionable strategies to write research narratives that inform and engage non-specialist audiences.

In the era of “fake news,” it is critical that research be translated and published as widely and accurately as possible. However, research experts often find it challenging to engage non-specialist audiences in ways that preserve the rigor and credibility of their work. We have helped academic clients write articles for Forbes, the CBC, and a range of other media outlets.

Want to translate your ideas into policy and practice? Knowledge translation is the process through which scholars and other technical experts leverage their research for policies, practices, and resources for public good. To translate knowledge effectively, it is critical that you first understand where your partners, collaborators, and actors are coming from. Our knowledge translation workshops provide a framework and actionable strategies to identify your own knowledge gaps and tap into knowledge and expertise beyond the academy.

How many early-career PhDs do you know who are editing, translating, indexing, tutoring, or freelancing in other ways? It’s a common narrative that doctoral students and recent graduates pick up ad hoc work to make ends meet. Often, this work leads the freelancer to interests that enrich or extend the scope of their expertise. 

In this way, PhDs become accidental business owners, full of talent but lacking training in basic components of business ownership. The socioeconomic pressure to accept any work at any price puts PhDs in a precarious financial situation. Building your own business, on the other hand, can help you build confidence in your agency as a professional and clarify the value of your work in context. Our entrepreneurship workshops offer tangible strategies for scholars in the humanities and social sciences to start or reframe freelance work as an integral component of their professional development plans.