Lighthouse services

Research Lighthouse's mission is to find good solutions to your challenges. Research Lighthouse's main service categories are outlined below. All services can be adapted to fit your specific interests and needs or built from scratch. If you are interested or have any questions, please drop me a line, or book an online meeting; the first meeting is always free of charge.

Research grant proposals

You must find the right door to win the research grant (photo from Algatan in Lund)

Success with grant proposals is necessary for researchers, but with success rates often hovering around 10 per cent, writing competitive proposals is challenging. Having applied successfully for own grants, worked at major funders, as well as assisted with proposals of all kinds in three countries, I offer advice, service and training, adapted to your needs and wishes, to get your research funded.

Examples of services:

Training course for grant writing (PDF)
Tips and tricks workshop for proposals (PDF)
Presentations (more info soon...)

US funding for non-US organizations

US funding is like going in through a very different door (photo from Aarhus, Denmark)

Are you based outside the US and interested in applying for research funding from American funders? It can be rewarding, but it's also complicated and not without risk. With first-hand experience of working at the NSF in the US and two decades of managing US research funding in Denmark and Sweden, Research Lighthouse can guide you and your organization.

Examples of services:

US funding for non-US organizations (PDF)
Applying for funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (coming soon...)

Danish research funding

Denmark has more research funders per capita than any other country, but you need to find the right door (photo from Odense)

Denmark has the world's biggest number per capita of private research foundations, and a complex, but resourceful research funding sector. If you are curious about Danish research funding—maybe because you do research in a neighboring country (Sweden, Germany, others) or maybe you have recently moved to Denmark as a researcher—but find it challenging to understand your possibilities, we are here to help.

Examples of services:

Introduction to Danish research funding (description coming soon...)

Research services

Efficient research service can be a complex challenge (photo from Kerteminde, Denmark)

I have experience working with—and evaluating—a range of modes of organizing and implementing research support in different countries. Research Lighthouse can help you evaluate your service needs and suggest how to develop, so that you know that you have the best, most efficient research services for your specific situation, regardless of whether you are a university, faculty, department or any other kind or size of unit.

Examples of services:

Evaluation of existing research services, suggestions for development.

Strategies, analyses, evaluation

Strategies have best-before dates and needs upkeep and renovation (photo from Fyns Hoved, Denmark)

Since 2000, I have participated in the development of countless strategies, action plans, analyses, evaluations, hearing statements ("remissvar", "høringssvar"). Many of them did not have the intended impact (and some were more trouble than help), but many were successful. I strongly believe in keeping it simple and keep a sharp focus on the intended results. If you need help with any kind of strategy, from your own individual funding strategy to institutional evaluations, let's talk!