Enhance your skills with targeted workshops designed to meet the specialized needs of researchers at all career stages. These workshops will increase your likelihood of receiving funding, develop your writing skills and enhance your experience at UT Southwestern.
Below, you'll find workshops offered to UT Southwestern faculty, research staff, and trainees.
Introduction to Scientific Communication
Who it's for: early career researchers, clinical research professionals, Ph.D. researchers, advanced practice providers (APPs), nurses
Learn how to effectively communicate your research by writing more clearly. Workshops will be available in scientific writing, grant writing, and scientific poster and presentation communication.
The Scientific Communication workshops are run by an experienced scientific writing coach who aims to help researchers improve their general scientific and grant writing skills.
Virtual sessions live on Teams; recordings available for those who've registered
Four 90-minute sessions
Registration required
Topics include:
High-Impact Science Writing: Effectively convey complex ideas to broad audiences with passion and in understandable terms. Learn to write with clarity and brevity, identify and understand your audience, choose the best word to use for specific situations, and structure your sentences and paragraphs in an engaging way.
Scientific Manuscript Writing: Learn the full process of writing a scientific manuscript, from organizing and editing your first draft to manuscript submission and reviewer responses. We'll cover how to carefully consider and optimize the content, organization, presentation, and flow of your scientific manuscripts to present your science in the best possible light.
Grant Writing: Learn about grant structure, the grant review process, and the key elements of grantsmanship that will help you win funding. With specific focus on NIH R grants or F- and K-fellowships, we cover how to strategically design your grant writing timeline, address new NIH grant requirements, create effective grant organization and structure, confidently navigate the peer review process, interpret scoring criteria, and more.
Conference Posters and Oral Presentations: Present your research with confidence and enthusiasm. We'll cover how much detail to provide in your conference poster, share design principles to highlight the key parts of your work, assist you with reciting an engaging two-to-five-minute summary of your research, and more.
Dates and registration information coming soon! For more information, contact us by CRA@utsouthwestern.edu.
Who it's for: early career researchers, clinical scholars, clinician educators, Ph.D. researchers, clinical research professionals, APPs, nurses
Get guidance on NIH grantsmanship and writing from a professional grant writer. This library of self-directed courses covers most NIH funding mechanisms (F, K, R, and T).
As a first-time NIH applicant preparing to apply for a K award, Meg Bouvier’s grant writing course library has been an invaluable resource. I have only reviewed the first three chapters thus far but it is clear that they are meticulously structured, offering deep insights into the grant writing process, far beyond superficial advice, reflecting the presenter’s extensive experience. The practical tips and the ability to save slides for future reference have been particularly beneficial. I am extremely grateful our university has provided us access to this essential tool.”
Who it's for: early career researchers, Ph.D. researchers, APPs, nurses, clinical research professionals
Learn how to successfully develop, draft, and complete peer-reviewed manuscripts. The curriculum ensures a consistent understanding of core writing skills, publication processes, and authorship ethics.
Who it's for: early career researchers, Ph.D. researchers, APPs, nurses
Make scholarly writing a habit, increase writing productivity, and finish your manuscript or scholarly writing project. The Writing Accountability Group includes sessions in which researchers will work on their scholarly writing accompanied by individual and group accountability. Participants will also learn techniques for overcoming barriers to writing.
Who it's for: early career researchers, Ph.D. researchers
Gain practical skills for navigating research at UTSW and beyond. These interactive boot camps teach and then ask participants to apply practical clinical research administration skills learned during the workshop.
Learn the major components required for a successful R grant submission and ensure the focus of your research supports future grant submissions. A final session run by a professional grant writer brings everything that the scholars have learned together to facilitate a successful R grant submission. Participants receive feedback from the facilitator and peers on a different application section at each session.
Quickly learn the fundamentals of conducting clinical research at UT Southwestern. Clinical Research Foundations Training introduces new and/or newly hired clinical researchers to the concepts and skills necessary to be successful in their role.
The training is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of foundational research knowledge and ensure that research personnel have a consistent and standardized foundational understanding of the requirements to successfully deliver clinical research.
Learn more about topics of interest at these events led by UT Southwestern experts. Topics are chosen based on feedback from the participants, and the formats include individual presentations and group roundtable discussions.
