📅 Dates: June 16 & 17, 2025
🕤 Time: 09:30–17:30 (both days)
📍 Location:
• June 16th – Tower R, Room 1
• June 17th – Tower I, Room 1
👤 Trainer: Dr Gavin Lucas (TPM Science)
🎯 Target audience: 3rd-4th year PhD students & Jr. Postdoctoral Researchers ONLY FROM IRB BARCELONA
Presentation
The goal of this workshop is to help publishing scientists develop a more impartial, analytical view of scientific writing, to better understand their readers as the focus for their scientific communication, and to make them more efficient writers and editors. Their writing will no longer be driven by a standard formula for How? to write a paper, but will be inspired by the question Why?
Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the structure of scientific papers, with a renewed focus on the purpose of each section and the connections between them. They will gain a global framework for conceptualising the entire publishing process, how to create an expectation in the reader and then deliver on that expectation, and how to make the qualitative jump from a passive scientific account to an active scientific argument.
Finally, we will explore some common problems of language construction that make scientists’ writing unclear, and why we are prone to these problems; we will practice some intuitive editing tools to address them. Furthermore, we will explore how AI tools can be used to support our writing.
Registration: Fill in the registration form here before 10 June. The workshop has limited places. The course is aimed at 3rd and 4th year PhD researchers.
A confirmation email will be sent to all participants. Participants will receive access details prior to the start of the workshop.
For questions contact academicoffice@irbbarcelona.org
Programme
Workshop Content
• Five stages of Publishing
• Who is my reader?
• Creating an Expectation: Destination and Roadmap
• Building structure and connectivity: Guide Layer
• From scientific report to a scientific argument: Sentence Outline
• Writing for Readability – words, sentences, and paragraphs
• Using AI in Scientific Writing
Speakers
Dr. Gavin Lucas is a scientist with 13 years of experience in biomedical research, and founder of TPM Science, where he has been an author’s editor, consultant, and trainer since 2013. In addition to his own track-record as a publishing scientist on national, European and international research projects, he and his team at TPM Science have helped plan, critique, and polish over 700 original scientific articles for dozens of institutes in diverse fields, as well as more than 120 H2020 and Horizon Europe proposals. He also has extensive experience as a trainer on more than 300 workshops in transferable skills for researchers, and provides consultancy on training and scientific productivity at numerous research institutes, public agencies, charitable foundations, and private companies.