Services
Mission
Personalized solutions for individual needs.
Help you improve your productivity, make deadlines, and complete projects by allowing you to offload and delegate specialized tasks and projects to me.
Help you improve your productivity, make deadlines, and complete projects by allowing you to offload and delegate specialized tasks and projects to me.
How It Works
- Discovery: We clarify goals, scope, timeline, rates, and confidentiality requirements.
- Proposal: You get a clear plan with deliverables and milestones.
- Communication: We regularly communicate updates and discuss the work in progress.
- Delivery: You receive deliverables in a timely fashion accompanied by a detailed report.
- Follow-through: Edits, revisions, and final polish as needed.
Types of Services
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Contact me to discuss your needs even if they’re not listed below. We all have different problems that need solving.
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Grant Writing and Grant Review Support
What people often lack:
- Thorough, in-depth content-level review that helps focus a proposal’s argument, logic, aims, and feasibility (rather than surface edits).
- A way to turn incomplete, vague ideas into a fundable narrative. People often come up with great ideas but don’t know where to start when it comes to writing the proposal.
- A proposal that’s grant reviewer-skimmable and reviewer-targeted. Experts often get critiqued for missing important details that are present in the proposal but hidden in a sea of technical details or written in unexpected places.
- An impact section that’s coherent and impactful. People are usually comfortable writing about their technical ideas but have difficulty describing how their project fits into a broader context.
- Alignment with funder priorities. Proposals usually don’t get funded when they don’t align with all of the grant call’s topic, scope, and funder’s expectations.
Value:
- You get clear, persuasive, on-time grant applications.
- Improved quality of proposals submitted each year.
- Increased funding success.
Types of Deliverables:
Grant proposal review:
- In-depth content-level proposal review report.
- Ready-to-(re)submit improved proposal (logic, readability/skimmability, alignment with review panel, substantive editing and proofreading).
Grant technical writing:
- Ready-to-submit proposal draft. (Narrative drafting and revisions.)
- Option to draft specific sections of proposals (e.g., the impact section) instead of full proposals.
Project support:
- Scheduling proposal partner brainstorm sessions.
- Support with keeping project partners on schedule.
- Other ad hoc support.
- Consortium building.
Funding strategy and opportunity scoping:
- Grant scoping and shortlisting.
- Grant submission timeline planning
Other:
- Contact Erika for personalized support.
Who benefits?
- Time-constrained scientists and PIs.
- Start-ups and NGOs.
- Early-career researchers.
- Consortia interested in improving their proposals prior to submission/resubmission.
Learn More About These Services
- 👉 Deep dive into Erika’s grant writing and consulting services
- The grant writing misconception blocking people’s success
- Grant writing tips and news.
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Science Communication
Value:
- Transform complex science into clear, accurate, and engaging writing.
- Expert editing and proofreading for manuscripts and other documents to improve clarity, correctness, and impact.
Types of Deliverables:
- For-the-public, plain-language summaries of technical reports and manuscripts.
- Press-friendly science web articles and outreach pieces.
- Editing and proofreading for STEM and clinical science documents (manuscripts, theses, reports, grant sections, etc.)
Who Benefits:
- Organizations needing public-facing content.
- Researchers who want to share their work to broader audiences.
- Non-native English authors who want polished, AI-free, impactful documents.
Learn More About These Services
Science Communication
- Selection of past science writing projects (Ghostwritten projects are not included.)
Editing and Proofreading
- Client testimonials and certifications.
- Learn more about the service.
- Rates and rate/currency calculator.
- Writing tips
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Research Support and Operations
➔ Research Support
Value:
- Finish research projects before funding runs out.
- Transform incomplete analyses into figures, tables, and text that are ready for stakeholder evaluation.
Process and Deliverables:
- Troubleshoot, analyze, and package biological results into clear figures, tables, and text for reports and manuscripts.
Who Benefits:
- PIs and research scientists with stalled projects or complex projects requiring additional staff.
- Teams needing reproducible research outputs and clear documentation.
Learn more about these Services
- Selection of past research projects (only open-access projects are shown)
- List of publications
- Teaching experience
➔ Research Operations & On-Demand Support
Value:
- Keep projects moving by delegating off-loadable tasks to lighten your busy schedule.
- Get on-demand help so your time is prioritized on core tasks that matter most.
- Boost productivity and improve output.
Process and Deliverables:
Here are some examples:
- Complete research, technical, or administrative tasks (e.g., data entry, submission to SRA, etc.)
- Handle negotiations with vendors for NGS and consumable prices, and coordinate submission and delivery of NGS data.
- Handle ad hoc tasks (e.g., retrieve content for presentations and course materials, etc.).
- Check my portfolio for more examples
Who Benefits:
- Start-ups and SMEs that are over-stretched and in need of a versatile expert.
- PIs and research teams who need an expert with a deep understanding of academic research workflows to help boost productivity.