Ready to level up your next scholarship or fellowship application? Join the UHN Office of Research Trainees (ORT) and Dr. Sarah Treit, Founder and CEO of Figures First Consulting, for an online workshop on August 13, 2025, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, that blends expert-led insights with practical group exercises to help you craft an effective one-page research proposal.

You’ll learn how to:

• Target your audience by aligning tone, content, and detail with review criteria.
• Hook reviewers with an impactful opening that highlights your research’s significance and gap in current knowledge.
• Write powerful Specific Aims that clearly define what your project will achieve—and why it matters.
• Scope your proposal smartly with achievable goals that align with the funders’ timelines.
• Tell a compelling story across sections using strong topic sentences, clear logic, and plain, engaging language.
• Demonstrate real-world impact through measurable outcomes, milestones, or success metrics.

You’ll also have an opportunity to put the theory into practice through a group discussion, where you’ll review and refine one-page summaries submitted by attendees. Turning lessons into action and feedback into insight.

Submit your one-page research proposals for review during the workshop here! Selected research proposals submitted in advance will be reviewed during the session. Note: The session will be recorded, and all selected proposals shown during the session will be anonymized to protect confidentiality (e.g., removing names, changing disease models, and gene names modified, etc.). UHN graduate students and postdocs who submit summaries for review during the workshop will be entered into a lottery for the opportunity to receive personalized feedback from Dr. Triet after the session.

This session is free and open only to UHN trainees, postdoctoral researchers, and staff. Register now!

Note: This workshop will be recorded and the recording will be shared with event registrants.