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From idea to funded project or published paper, our team (with decades of editing experience at Nature & Science) offers personalized editing, coaching, visuals, and training.

At Germinate Science Consulting, our mission is simple: Help researchers communicate ambitious science with maximum clarity and impact.

Germinate Science Consulting GSC helps researchers communicate their work with clarity and impact through expert grant editing, manuscript development, and visual storytelling. With decades of experience across fields, we offer…

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Germinate Science Consulting GSC helps researchers communicate their work with clarity and impact through expert grant editing, manuscript development, and visual storytelling. With decades of experience across fields, we offer…

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Get in touch to find out how we might be able to help you and your colleagues develop more effective writing and communication skills to support your goals in publishing brilliant papers and securing competitive research funding.

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Over the past few years we’ve run in-person workshops in the UK, Ireland, Europe and Mozambique, and online courses joined by participants across Europe, Africa and Asia.

Accordingly, in addition to running in-person workshops at client institutions, we also deliver shorter online seminars covering specific elements of the manuscript or grant writing process.

While we believe that effective learning is best served by being together in the same room, we appreciate that this is not always possible given the distributed and international nature of scientific research.

Accordingly, our one-day interactive workshops mix taught elements with practical exercises and loads of informal group discussion based on our experience (and many anecdotes) collected over decades as active scientists, Nature journal editors, and consulting through Germinate.

Having sat through our fair share of bland flipchart corporate yawn-fests, we specifically developed our courses to be enjoyable and entertaining as much as they are informative and useful.

We have developed a series of Advanced Scientific Writing Courses primarily aimed at early and mid-career researchers for
- Research manuscripts
- Grants and fellowships

At Germinate Science we like nothing more than getting out from behind our desks to go and facilitate workshops for groups of researchers looking to strengthen their scientific writing skills.

Germinate Science Consulting GSC helps researchers communicate their work with clarity and impact through expert grant editing, manuscript development, and visual storytelling. With decades of experience across fields, we offer…

Your manuscript draft is solid, but is it submission-ready?

Our developmental edits identify gaps, sharpen logic & impact, providing in-depth feedback from former Nature/Science editors.

Get that extra edge before you submit.

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Just came across this blast from the past, our Science Snakes & Ladders Christmas card from a few years ago.

Drawn for us by the brilliant Samantha Whitham!

Worth a Friday share to brighten the post-holiday funk.

And if you or your colleagues might be interested in getting our help with a grant, or any other of the services that we provide, do get in touch: germinatescience.com/pages/contac...

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With our recent expansion, in 2026 the Germinate team (Andy, Claudio and now Gemma too) is set to help even more researchers ensure that their applications stand out from the pack and maximise their chances of secure funding to deliver their ambitious science.

Building on this record of supporting successful applications, demand for our services grew substantially in 2025 and we have worked with clients on more than forty grant or fellowship applications so far, two of which have already secured funding.

Beyond writing, we also support clients through the process of preparing for an interview by helping to create highly polished and effective slide decks and providing coaching and strategic support for script writing, responding to questions, and navigating mock interviews.

We believe that each application needs to be accessible enough that generalists can readily grasp the core ideas and fundamental importance of a proposal, while being detailed enough that subject-specialist reviewers can critically appraise the approach and feasibility.

Our approach is to work closely with researchers to develop their proposals, from experimental design, through crafting a logical narrative, to finalising a polished and visually attractive application.

Between 2021 and 2024, we were fortunate to work with many amazing scientists who were collectively successful in securing more than €60M in funding, including multiple ERC Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Synergy grants, and various other prestigious national and international funding schemes.

At Germinate, over the last few years we have been increasingly focussed on helping our clients to strengthen their grant and fellowship applications to maximise their chances of securing funding to deliver their innovative science.