Building on the success of previous cohorts, with this funding, Publication Academy, led by Jay Phoenix Singh, aims to provide three new cohorts of grantees with access to custom online courses which have been developed for TWCF grantees and offered on Publication Academy’s proprietary Learning Management System. 

These courses include: (1) the Academic Writing Course, (2) the Technical Communication Course, and (3) the Grant Writing & Management Course. Through these courses,  Publication Academy aims to accelerate the pace at which discoveries move through the strategic pipeline by empowering grantees and facilitating the writing of academic publications (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles) as well as technical communications (e.g., policy briefs, social media and blog posts, digital newsletter articles). 

Publication Academy has already taught courses to more than 500 TWCF-grantee team members, including post-docs, DISI participants, and named grantees, focusing on journal article writing, science communication (e.g., op-eds, blogs, social media), and grant writing. 

In past iterations, both high-touch virtual live courses and low-touch self-paced modules have been successful. Current testing aims to determine if low-touch versions achieve similar output rates as high-touch methods. With this funding, Publication Academy seeks to use these findings to fund the most effective method that can serve the largest number of grantees.

In addition, Publication Academy aims to help support re-investment in currently funded projects by helping grantees find additional external funding opportunities and then write successful grant proposals.