Faculty grant-writing retreat 2026
Start Date
Tuesday May 5, 2026End Date
Wednesday May 6, 2026Time
9:00 am - 4:00 pmThe Vice-Principal Research Portfolio invites faculty members to attend the annual grant-writing workshop and retreat. This year, the program will span two days and cover how to build a compelling narrative CV for Tri-agency grant applications and how to create and communicate value in grant proposals
Faculty members can register for both days or only one.
Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided on both days. After lunch, participants are welcome to stay in the workshop room for quiet writing time. They can also reserve a twenty-five minute consultation with their discipline-specific Research Projects Advisor, or attend a session with the morning's lecturer.
For questions, please contact Heather Brain.
Program
Day 1: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
8:30 - 9 am Continental breakfast available
9am - 12 pm How to Write an Effective Tri-agency Narrative CV, with Letitia Henville
- This interactive workshop will introduce participants to strategies with which to create a compelling narrative CV. Dr. Henville will break down and discuss the new Tri-agency narrative CV section by section: the Personal Statement, Most Significant Contributions and Experiences, and Supervision and Mentorship. Using real-life TCV excerpts, she will guide participants in transforming lists of research outputs and outcomes into statements of research impact. Templates and resources will be provided. Come prepared to develop your own TCV.
12 - 1 pm Networking lunch (buffet)
1 - 4 pm Afternoon working sessions
- Participants are welcome to stay in the workshop room and enjoy some silent writing time.
- Interested participants can request 25-minute consultations with 黑料吃瓜资源 Research Project Advisors to discuss grant applications or their CVs.
- Dr. Henville will also be offering one-on-one TCV consultations on a first-come-first-served base.
黑料吃瓜资源 the presenter:
Letitia Henville holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Toronto. Author of the academic writing advice column "Ask Dr. Editor,鈥 she specializes in editing major research grant applications as well as tenure and promotion dossiers. .
Day 2: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
8:30 - 9 am Continental breakfast available
9 am - 12 pm Effective Academic Writing: The Problem of Value, with Larry McEnerney
- Clarity in academic writing is good; concision is good; logical organization is good. But none of this matters if your writing is not seen by readers to be valuable to them. Too many academics believe that value is a matter not of writing, but of content; and they assume that if they make their writing clear and logical, then value will take care of itself. On the contrary: successful academic texts rely on a host of writing techniques that are specific to value, and not just communicating value, but creating it. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to essential techniques for creating value, how they work and how to use them.
12 - 1 pm Networking lunch (buffet)
Discipline-specific sessions on how to adapt value-creation techniques to specific readers (limited to 12 participants each):
1 - 2 pm Health sciences working session
2 - 3 pm Natural sciences and engineering working session
3 - 4 pm Social sciences and humanities working session
黑料吃瓜资源 the presenter:
Now retired, Larry McEnerney was for 30 years the director of the writing program at the University of Chicago. Chicago's program specializes in the most advanced academic and professional writing, working extensively with faculty, postgraduate fellows, and graduate students. Dr. McEnerney continues to consult worldwide for universities, research institutes, academic societies, journals, governments, and funding agencies, as well as for individual scholars and scientists.