Writing

So today marks the ‘official’ start of Spring. The season has connotations of renewal, rebirth….and a good spring clean. And here at Postdoc Solutions, we’ve been doing our own spring cleaning, looking over what’s working, what we can improve, what we’re going to let go of, and what we’d like to change. More on that…

Let’s be honest. Grant writing takes a lot of time – something you’re not drowning in, I know. So I’m often asked if there are ways to reduce the amount of time spent writing grant application after grant application. My answer is yes. There are a number of ways you can make grant writing more…

When I was in the late stages of my PhD and a total novice at grant writing, my approach was entirely personal and emotional. Am I good enough? What will they think of my idea? How competitive is the scheme (read: am I good enough for this?).   But the more I rubbed shoulders with…

If you’ve ever written a Fellowship application, or for some schemes, a Project Grant application, there are designated sections for writing about your research performance and you as a ‘candidate’ for funding.   This is by far the most sensitive part of an application for people to write, an Achilles’ heel of sorts in the…

I started working with a client in the middle of last year who had a writing ‘problem’.   He’d been publishing consistently, and publishing in great outlets. Nothing wrong there.   But, for someone in the social sciences, he had a disproportionate number of co-authored papers compared with sole authored ones. And his senior colleagues…