As a researcher, you know what questions you want to address and which problems you want to solve: The key hypotheses that you want to test and why these issues are important to you and your colleagues. One of the major barriers to writing successful funding applications is transferring your own passion for a particular research question to a wider audience: why should a funding agency or a set of reviewers find your research important and significant?

Charlesworth Knowledge, the education arm of Charlesworth Author Services, recently concluded a series of successful writing and communication workshops at a number of universities, hospitals, and higher education institutions in the southern Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Winning funding is a critical step for any research project, and is often the most important step. Without funding to support a research project it is unlikely that a team can be built, data collected or that the project will even go beyond the planning stage. This makes grant proposals a key component of any successful academic career. 

Research ethics, especially plagiarism, can be complex. Charlesworth Knowledge training courses and online materials can help, so why not get in touch with a member of our team for more information?

Charlesworth Knowledge intellectual property (IP) training for researchers will help you to properly protect your own ideas and carry out your own projects ethically.

Making a good impression in an interview, or summoning the courage to talk to a senior colleague at a research conference, can be a difficult and daunting prospect. Charlesworth Knowledge training courses can help: we can enable you to overcome the nerves that come naturally when you suddenly find yourself in these situations, and teach you some tricks and tips to help ensure you make the best possible first impression on colleagues.

What is ‘research impact’? Why is this concept important? Why should you care? Get in touch with our team at Charlesworth Knowledge to learn how we can help you to maximise the impact of your research.

Further growing the list of Editorial Manager Ingest partners, Aries Systems announces a new submission partnership with Charlesworth Author Services.

Writing and submitting papers is just part of the publishing story. There’s lots of issues and potential pitfalls to be aware of. Our Charlesworth Knowledge training courses and online materials can help you to ensure your submissions are compliant with journal publishing and ethical guidelines. The Charlesworth Group is a member of the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE).

The peer review process forms the bedrock of scientific publishing. Charlesworth Knowledge can help you navigate the peer-review minefield, including understanding the concept of double-blind peer review.

We offer a range of training workshops and other online materials at Charlesworth Knowledge to help you design and deliver effective research presentations.

Selecting a target journal for research work is one of the toughest initial steps of the publishing process. Our journal selection service can help.

It’s not too late to sign up for our free Webinar ‘Writing an effective scientific paper’, going live 17:00 GMT on Friday March 8^th, 2019.

Managing and responding to reviewer comments can be difficult. Our experts can help you decode the responses that come back from journals about your papers.

Writing an academic paper can be a daunting prospect, especially at early career stages. Gareth Dyke, Charlesworth's Head of Content Development and Delivery (and the author of more than 260 peer-reviewed papers), has put together a list of ten top tips to ease the stress.

Train with Charlesworth Knowledge to recover from academic setbacks.

As part of our peer review training at Charlesworth Knowledge, we aim to help young researchers be as effective as possible when participating in this process. It can be daunting as well as flattering to receive a request from a journal to work on a paper; at the same time, how can you quickly and easily put together an effective set of comments to send back to an editor and be a ‘useful’ peer reviewer?

Charlesworth Knowledge workshops can help you broaden your research perspective and find ideas for shifts out of the “research rat race”. Training can help you to “see the wood from the trees” and take your research development to the next level in terms of ideas, paper and grant writing, and presentation skills.

Today, February 12^th, is Darwin Day, the 210^th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, probably the most famous scientist to have ever lived.

As well as acting as a peer-reviewer for scientific papers in your field, its also common to be asked to review grant applications. Our Charlesworth Knowledge workshops provide training in how to perform reviews effectively and ethically.