Independent research, grant and proposal development, and substantive editing for people and organizations working with complex material, evidence and ideas.
“There is a lot here, and I need someone to figure out what matters and how to organize it.”
If that sounds familiar, this is the kind of work I do.
Research sits at the centre of my practice. Grant development and substantive editing draw on the same core skills: identifying what matters, understanding how evidence fits the question, recognizing changes in a field, and communicating complex material clearly.
Research scans, literature and evidence synthesis, source-heavy background work, briefing documents, and qualitative or transdisciplinary questions that cross disciplinary and organizational boundaries.
Research-informed proposal development for nonprofit and community organizations, with attention to funder fit, project rationale, evidence, program logic and persuasive clarity.
Document-level editing for academic, research, professional and serious nonfiction work where structure, reasoning, evidence, flow and clarity matter more than surface correction alone.
Effective research requires judgment: defining what is relevant to the question, evaluating and connecting sources, identifying patterns and contradictions, recognizing how a field has developed and changed, and organizing complex material into a form that can be clearly understood and used.
My approach is transdisciplinary and purpose-driven. I work across academic and professional sources and, where relevant, organizational and lived-experience perspectives, while keeping the research question and intended use of the work in view.
Read about my research approach →Research can uncover important lines of inquiry that could not reasonably be predicted at the outset. I define the scope before work begins and identify significant new directions before expanding the agreed work.
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Defined smaller assignments are generally paid before work begins.
Larger projects use agreed milestones and progress payments.
Grant-writing fees are never dependent on an award decision.
Professional services are compensated financially.
I am a researcher, writer and editor with a multidisciplinary academic and professional background. My doctoral research used a transdisciplinary, community-engaged framework and drew together academic literature, professional practice, community organizations and lived-experience perspectives.
My background also includes university teaching and course development, invited conference presentations, graduate research work, knowledge synthesis, manuscript development, collaborative and nonprofit proposal development, and scholarly publication.
More about my background →Tell me what you are working with and what the finished work needs to accomplish. I will let you know whether it fits my practice and what I need to determine scope, timing and price.
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