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Theme:

Education and Research

Category:

Education and Research This activity is for Research active staff and would be particularly useful to Early Career Researchers.

This session will be DELIVERED VIRTUALLY - joining instructions will be provided beforehand.

About this course:

This one-hour course introduces researchers to practical, responsible ways to use AI tools in grant writing.

Participants will explore how AI can support idea development, literature review, structuring funding arguments and refining draft text, while maintaining their own voice, intellectual ownership and alignment with funder requirements.

Handouts will be provided during the session via an online link.

Learning outcomes:

As a result of attending this course, you will be able to:.

- use AI tools to support grant applications, literature reviews and structure funding arguments.

- write effective, well-targeted prompts for grant and funding applications.

- maintain your own voice and full intellectual ownership when using AI-assisted drafting.

- check AI-assisted content against funder requirements and compliance rules.

- recognise the limitations of AI tools and avoid common pitfalls in grant writing.

Who should attend this course:

The course is specifically designed Research active staff and would be particularly useful to Early Career Researchers preparing funding, fellowship or grant applications who want to use AI tools effectively while remaining in full control of the intellectual content.

If you have accessibility requirements, please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk in advance to discuss further.

Presenter(s):

This session is delivered by Dr Naomi Tyrrell.

Dr Naomi Tyrrell is an ICF-accredited coach, trainer and researcher with over 20 years' experience supporting people in universities, research organisations and non-profits, and four years of delivering AI training to researchers.

A former academic (PhD, 40+ publications), she places ethics at the centre of all her AI training and is the founder of Alt Ac Careers.

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Before the course:

No preparation is required for this course.

A joining link will be provided beforehand.

What Previous Participants Have Said About the Course: "In May 2026, Naomi delivered five amazing workshops for our AHRC-funded PhD students and their supervisors around writing successful grant and job applications, transitioning well out of academia, developing real-world research impact, and supporting postgraduate researchers with their career prospects and professional development.

The consistently positive feedback from our students evidences how Naomi's workshops were highly engaging and useful" - Dr Hannah Helm, AHRC Northern Hub Manager.

Learning provider:

This course is administered by Researcher Development; please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk for more details.

If you register for any of our sessions, it is expected that you will attend.

If you are not able to attend please log in to the `iTrent' online system to remove your name from the relevant activity before it is due to take place.

You will be expected you to attend for the whole session and for ease of administration, attendance registers will be taken at the end of each session.

Should you need to leave a session early or you experience ongoing technical issues, please email ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk.