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Fellowship Writing Workshop 

10-1 pm, 9 April 2025, PCL050 

This event is specifically targeted towards PhD students and PDRAs.  

This session follows-on from the very popular in-person fellowship application info-session, held in February. This session is for those who are preparing to submit a fellowship application, are thinking about a possible future application, or haven’t really thought about fellowship applications, but would like to have some initial experience grant writing. 

 The workshop will involve a brief presentation on grant writing, and specifically fellowship writing, followed by a writing/ brainstorming exercise during the workshop. You will receive active feedback from panel members present. It will be led by Aakash Basu and Liz Morris (Biosciences) who will give hands-on advice to attendees.

• Register here: https://forms.office.com/e/1RsDPBU6jZ?origin=lprLink
• Please bring along any existing drafts, or ideas for fellowships you are working on
• Please send any questions about the session to aakash.basu@durham.ac.uk

Fellowship Mentorship Matchmaking 

Our Fellowship mentorship matchmaking programme aims to link people writing Fellowships with mentors who can help them to navigate this process.  After matching with a partner, the informal mentorship meetings will take place over a 6 month period, covering the Fellowship application process. Each pair will be given coffee vouchers for their mentorship sessions, which can be held in whichever format and frequency is most appropriate. At the end of the six-month period we will ask the pairs to complete a short anonymous form to track the impact of the mentorship.  

Sign-up for Mentorship Matchmaking here: https://forms.office.com/e/PP0sfhji1v 

Deadline for sign-up: 28 November 2025

Interested but want to know more? Email bsi-manager@durham.ac.uk.

BSI Writing Room

The BSI hosts weekly Writing Room sessions. These are open sessions where people working on interdisciplinary biosciences research can come to write in a peaceful setting away from the distractions of their office and laboratories. There will be tea, coffee and biscuits available and once per month there will be an information session on a specific topic.

Email bsi.manager@durham.ac.uk to request calendar invites for the BSI Writing Room. 

Suggest an Information Session topic here.

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