Our courses

Grant writing

Learn an effective approach to develop successful proposals for funding from any funder. We developed this approach based on our extensive experience in helping researchers, teams, and large centers to secure funding from diverse national, EU, and private funders.
"This workshop is a must-have for every young researcher. Full of very concrete information and practical exercises to organise your thoughts and improve your writing."
- Postdoc, Örebro University
"I highly recommend this webinar because of its applicable content. The framing method introduced is something I will use in many parts of my research, and it gave me a new way of looking at the shortcomings and the coherence in my applications."
- Postdoc, Linköping University
"Knowledgeable speaker who presented in a very clear way and professional manner."
- EU Grant Manager, Chalmers University of Technology
"I wish I'd had this workshop before I wrote my first grant. Having a clear structure in mind could have saved me a lot of agony! I feel more confident conveying my ideas convincingly now."
- Assistant Professor, Lund University
"Incredibly knowledgeable and efficient presenter, wow! Extremely useful training for future proposals."
- Senior Lecturer, Dalarna University
"The analyses were excellent. I need a lot of examples to comprehend. I am writing a grant proposal for DFF, so this entire material makes even more sense to me. I find it extremely useful. Thank you so much."
- Researcher, University of Copenhagen

Understand what it takes to get funded

Understand the funding landscape and commonalities and differences between different funders.

Sharpen your proposal

Achieve coherence, accuracy, conciseness, and confidence in your arguments, whilst balancing optimism with realism to avoid hyperbole.

Frame your research

Use our PAOI® framing approach to map out your project's rationale, purpose, aims, strategy, outcomes, and impacts, before putting pen to paper.

Ace your interview

Learn effective techniques to develop concise and compelling presentations, and navigate Q&As, in high-stakes interview situations.

Write your proposal

Harness effective story techniques to write the key sections in any grant proposal. Get templates to get you started.

Target specific funders

Understand, frame, and write proposals to specific target funders - we can tailor our trainings to your funder of choice.

Formats

Seminars
Workshops
Self-paced courses
Blended courses
Institutional solutions

Scientific writing and publishing

Learn effective strategies and techniques to develop and publish papers that make an impact on the academic community and beyond. Our experience stems from having helped hundreds of researchers publish high-quality research in the world's best journals over more than a decade, and our previous editorial experience at Nature-journals.
"Actually best course I have taken. To the point and very useful."
- Assistant Prof/Lecturer, Mid Sweden University
"It's really the best I've ever heard."
- Postdoc, Wuhan University
"This workshop taught me everything my scientific writing course at uni did not -- would 100% recommend!"
- PhD student, Uppsala University
"In my opinion this course is all you need to know about writing and publishing process in a nutshell. Materials are of great quality, both videos and reading materials. It's easy to follow and includes practical assignments with a key how to approach each one. I would highly recommend trying it out."
- PhD student, University of Helsinki

"This well-structured course covers all important aspects of getting a paper published. The concepts introduced in the course are extremely useful and many were new to me. I was immediately able to apply the concepts to my own work, both in preparing a manuscript as well as in writing a review report."

- Postdoc, Lund University
"The workshop is a must for supervisors working with PhD students’ manuscripts. Now I have a strategy to provide structured feedback."
- Assistant Prof, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Plan and frame

Use our PAOI® framing approach to identify focus, context, and key messages for your prospective paper. Identify the author team and each member's contributions to the study, and plan the writing.

Edit your paper

Learn linguistics techniques to write accurately, concisely, and coherently, whilst cutting away any unnecessary complexity and verbosity to ensure your readers quickly grasp your intended meaning.

Avoid ethical issues

Understand key issues related to plagiarism, image manipulation, authorship, scientific misconduct, referencing, and conflicts of interest, to ensure you adhere to the highest standards of professionalism.

Publish your paper

Gain deep insights into editorial and review processes and how to effectively and professionally respond to editorial decisions, address criticism, and communicate with editors and reviewers.

Write your first draft

Harness story techniques to write clear, complete, coherent, and informative titles, abstracts, introductions, methods, results, and discussion sections for any type of paper. Learn to use graphics effectively.

Stay abreast

Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the publishing landscape, open science, reproducibility, peer review, AI and more, to ensure you have the best tools at hand to disseminate your research findings effectively.

Formats

Seminars
Workshops
Self-paced courses
Blended courses
Institutional solutions

Science communications

Learn effective techniques to develop and deliver diverse types of science communications. Understand the interplay between science, media, policy, and society. We draw upon our experience with writing/developing multi-faceted communications, including diverse types of presentations, press releases, commentaries, research highlights, news & views, perspectives, editorials, vision papers, annual and evaluation reports.
"Very useful workshop for anyone interested in improving their scientific communication skills. Inspirational, intensive, engaging, and fun."
- Research School Director, Lund University
"I have been to presentation workshops before, but this was the best!"
- Postdoc, University of Copenhagen

"Elevate delivered an excellent workshop to a diverse audience of sustainability researchers wishing to improve their press release writing skills."

- Future Earth Norway

"I found it extremely useful and interesting. It gave my many tips and ideas to improve my communication skills and it encourage me to be a better speaker."

- Postdoc, Swedish Agricultural University

"Dan hosted a great workshop on science communication for PhD and Postdoc level staff in our Bioscience Cluster. His engaging presentation was accompanied by hands-on exercises, and the workshop was much appreciated by the participants."

- Copenhagen Bioscience Cluster

"This workshop was a pleasant surprise from the usual click-through powerpoint format we see all too often. The presentation was engaging, thorough and well designed. There was a good combination of slides, examples, exercises and Q&A sessions. The presenter was extremely knowledgeable. I walked away with some great ideas for my future endeavours."

- PhD student, Lund University

Understand media and trust

Understand the interplay between science, media, and policy. Learn how trust and beliefs are shaped by misinformation, politics, and social media, and why some topics are more prone to become polarized. 

Harness story techniques

Learn effective narrative techniques for shaping clear, complete, coherent, and compelling science stories for any type of science communications.

Position yourself

Understand the roles that you could play to engage effectively with different societal stakeholders. Learn to avoid pitfalls when engaging in issue advocacy and shaping opinion.

Deliver compelling talks

Craft, design, and deliver engaging presentations to any audiences, in any format. Become a confident speaker, captivate your audiences, bring your research to the world. 

Frame your messages

Use our PAOI® framing approach to identify and tailor the focus, context, and key messages you wish to communicate, to your target audience and intended purpose of your communication. 

Write for non-specialists

Learn how to write diverse science communications, including press releases, popular summaries, blog articles, opinion articles and more.

Formats

Seminars
Workshops

Peer review

Learn the intricacies of peer review - a vital, yet imperfect, part of academia - and how to navigate it effectively as an author, and contribute to it professionally, as a reviewer. We draw upon our experience as authors, reviewers, and editors (including at Nature) and continual monitoring of recent developments in publishing, open science, reproducibility, research assessment, and more.
"Excellent workshop that is useful even when you have reviewed several papers before."
- Associate Professor/Lecturer, Aarhus University"
"Great overview of the review and editorial process. Highly valuable for young researchers submitting their first paper/conducting their first peer review!
- PhD student, University of Copenhagen

"This was a very well-condensed webinar. Touched on a lot of important aspects of peer review from different perspectives - editor, reviewer, author - this gave me a really good understanding of the process. Also great to get an overview of how things are done different at different types of journals."

- Postdoc, Bispebjerg and Fredriksberg Hospital

"Great preparation if you wish to become a peer reviewer!"

- Postdoc, Universitas Islam Bandung

"Clear and concise. No waste of time."

- Postdoc, Steno Diabetes Center

Understand peer review

Learn about the origins, history, role, strengths, and weaknesses of peer review, and the innovations shaping it today.

Navigate the editorial process

Understand the role of reviewers, how editorial decisions are taken, types of editorial decisions and what to do in response, and a templated approach to draft rebuttal letters, and letters to the editor for different situations.

Understand editorial processes

Understand the editorial processes and role of editors at different journals (including those at high-profile journals such as Nature) and learn about the evidence for reviewer and journal-related biases.

Conduct reviews professionally

Understand conflicts of interest and other ethical issues. Learn a step-by-step workflow to review papers and draft informative, constructive, and professional review reports.

Formats

Seminars
Workshops
Self-paced courses
Blended courses
Institutional solutions

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