What you’ll gain


A practical writing toolkit

Techniques to make complex topics clear, engaging and accessible — useful for grant proposals and academic writing too. You start writing during the workshop and keep refining at home.

Expert feedback & publication

Personalised 1:1 feedback from coach Amy LeBlanc, plus help pitching your article to platforms like BioVox and The Conversation.

A growing network

Join a supportive community of researchers and science communicators.

Meet your coach


Amy LeBlanc teaches the Popular Science Writing course. Amy is a freelance science communicator and Senior Content Creator at Biovia, the Flemish cluster for health innovation. She’s also Editor-in-Chief of our media partner BioVox, an online news platform for Belgian life sciences.

Amy LeBlanc

What others wrote


Curious about the magical world of ‘nano crayons’, or how bacteria can help plants fight drought? Read these and many other blogs written by our alumni on BioVox.

Read the blogs 
A researcher writing

Something for you?


This course is ideal for researchers of any discipline who are ready to reach a general audience, science communicators who want to sharpen their writing, and academics wanting to craft opinion pieces or outreach articles.

We accept up to 12 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. The workshop takes place online (on Zoom).

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