Emerge Newsletter

Writing strategies, tools, and updates from the EMERGE universe – for academics who are ready to move their work forward. Emerge Weekly brings you focused writing tips, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical resources to help you publish more and stay on track in your academic life.

Welcome back. This week, news of universities moving away from Turnitin made me reflect on where it has helped me as a lecturer, and what might replace it. I'm also sharing a little of my literature-review teaching as a preview of Submit by December. And on Wednesday, we'll take a step back from...

Oct 12, 2026

Mobility, conclusions & semester planning

We missed last week's newsletter. Did you notice? I've had a busy start to autumn, leading a week-long writing retreat at a monastery and submitting my own book manuscript, which has been a long time in the making. The retreat has me seriously thinking about organising a week-long one of my own. ...

Oct 05, 2026

7.4% MSCA odds, R&R advice & tomorrow's workshop

Welcome back. This week's newsletter is arriving on Tuesday rather than Monday because I was travelling to a monastery in Lower Austria to lead a week-long writing retreat. Thank you for your patience! This week, a look at demand for European postdoctoral funding and some practical advice on a pa...

Sep 22, 2026

New ESRC schemes, the "so what" test, next steps

Welcome back. Two things this week: UKRI has published its Delivery Plan for 2026–27, with real changes for SSH funding, and a short craft piece on the one sentence your paper needs before you draft it. A note at the end on what's next after last week's job market webinar. 01 · In the field: UKR...

Sep 14, 2026

ERC surge, reading tough feedback & tomorrow's free job-market webinar

Welcome back. Two things this week, and a live invitation for tomorrow. The ERC has just announced its 2026 Starting Grant winners — €705 million to 421 early-career researchers — and buried in the numbers is a story about the market that matters more than the headline. On the craft side, I want...

Sep 07, 2026

Germany's contract reform, writing across fields & a free job-market webinar

Welcome back. Germany has just passed the first serious reform of academic fixed-term contracts in a decade — a real, if partial, win for early-career researchers across Europe's largest research system. And in the same week, on the other side of the ledger, more humanities departments in the UK ...

Aug 31, 2026

SSH funding, a cut list & a free writing session

A shorter one this week. In the news, a fresh funding channel for social science and humanities researchers in Germany and Canada that I think more people should know about. On the craft, the conversation I keep having with clients this month — not how to write more, but which paper you're allowe...

Aug 24, 2026

Jason Arday, warrants & a December plan

Welcome back. This week's newsletter opens with a story that holds the attention of the academic community worldwide - the death of Cambridge scholar of colour Jason Arday, and the question it forces the rest of us in academia to ask about who gets destroyed by an accusation and who doesn't. I'll...

Aug 17, 2026

ERC's €838M, writing towards a reader, and the retreat

Welcome back. Three things this week: an ERC data point that says something surprising about where the world's senior researchers now want to work, an idea about how to write towards a reader rather than around a topic, and a genuine last-call for the writing retreat this Thursday and Friday. 01 ...

Aug 10, 2026

Japan joins Horizon, the summer writing slump, and a workshop

Welcome back. Three things this week: a piece of Horizon Europe news that will interest anyone thinking about international collaboration, an honest conversation about the summer slump nobody warns you about, and one last invitation to my free workshop tomorrow — which is really the answer to the...

Aug 03, 2026

The ERC, bad writing days, and a free workshop

Welcome back. Three things this week: a piece of ERC news that will matter to anyone planning a big grant application in the next year, an honest conversation about writing days that go badly, and an invitation to a free one-hour workshop I'm running on how to actually finish your summer writing ...

Jul 27, 2026

The ERC, bad writing days, and a free workshop

Jul 27, 2026

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