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Upcoming Webinars (2025)
Research Grants: Understanding Peer Reviewers’ Perspectives
Canadian Association of Research Administrators
Between November 2023 and July 2024, Letitia Henville interviewed over 150 former peer reviewers from the CIHR Project, NFRF Explorations, NSERC Discovery, and SSHRC Insight and Insight Development competitions. This webinar shares peer reviewers’ perspectives on reading, scoring, and discussing grant applications, and provides advice to grants facilitators and officers based on the unwritten norms and expectations of peer review. Participants will be provided with a URL from which they can access resources related to the webinar.
Introduction to Academic Research Grants [Recorded Webinar]
Editors Canada
Are you an established freelance academic editor interested in adding an additional service to your offerings? Or are you planning on applying for in-house work as a research grants facilitator, editor, or officer in a post-secondary research institution?
In this 60-minute webinar, Letitia Henville—a former in-house grants editor, and now the author of the monthly University Affairs column Ask Dr. Editor—will share details about the written and unwritten rules that grant applicants should follow, describe how research grant peer review committees work, and share resources for learning more about this rewarding and lucrative subfield of academic editing—including information about how to find freelance and in-house work in this field.
Participants in this webinar will receive a PDF with notes, links, resources, and quiz questions.
Previous Webinars
Getting Into In-House Research Grants Facilitation
Canadian Association of Research Administrators (CARA)
Would you enjoy learning about-and helping to support-cutting-edge academic research? If so, you may be interested in pursuing a career as an in-house research grants facilitator in a university, research hospital, or regional health authority. In this 60-minute webinar, Letitia Henville will help prospective research grants facilitators learn more about this rewarding field and the possibilities offered by in-house work. This webinar will describe the political trends that have led to the emergence of research grants facilitation as a field, talk about the kinds of work that grants facilitators, editors, and officers perform, and share her top suggestions for applying for in-house jobs. The webinar will close with recommendations for new in-house research grants editors, to set them up for success in the field and in their careers.
How to Read Research Grant Proposals like an Editor
European Association for Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA)
Research grant proposals need to communicate their message clearly, efficiently, and persuasively. In this 60-minute webinar, a professional academic editor will share three of her favourite strategies for improving the written content in research grant proposals. These are strategies specific to research grants and backed by peer-reviewed evidence. By the end of this webinar, participants who work with grants will be better equipped to support researchers in developing compelling, well-written proposals–and will know as well when to bring in an editor to help.
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