A 5-Week Capacity-Building Workshop by ResearchPatron Foundation
Move from summarising literature to arguing, positioning, and contributing like a professional scholar.
This intensive workshop equips researchers with the critical thinking and writing skills needed to produce authoritative literature reviews that demonstrate genuine scholarly contribution. Move beyond mere summary to develop your unique scholarly voice and position your research within the broader academic conversation.
Designed for researchers who want to move beyond descriptive literature reviews to produce work that demonstrates genuine scholarly contribution.
At any stage of your doctoral journey
Postdoctoral fellows building research portfolios
Preparing research proposals and dissertations
Research-active faculty seeking to refine skills
Scholars in African and developing contexts
Independent researcher and think-tank scholar
By the end of this workshop, you will have developed the critical skills needed to produce literature reviews that demonstrate genuine scholarly contribution and position your research within the broader academic conversation.
What most doctoral students and early-career researchers suffer from is not a reading problem. They suffer from a scholarly judgement problem.
Most doctoral and early-career literature reviews fail not because researchers lack familiarity with the literature, but because they were taught about research rather than how scholars evaluate, argue, and contribute to knowledge. While many can competently summarise existing studies, few have been trained to critically assess evidence, judge scholarly arguments, or position knowledge within ongoing debates.
As a result:
This hands-on workshop programme fixes that. In 5 weeks, by training you on how to develop arguments, voice, and original contributions through literature review writing, it builds your capacity to think and write like a professional scholar; transitioning you from mere literature consumption to scholarly authorship.
You’ll learn how professional scholars:
This is why our participants stop asking:
‘Have I read enough?’ and start asking:
‘What am I contributing here?’
300+
African researchers trained since 2022
A carefully structured 5-week journey from understanding to mastery.
Learn to move beyond mere description to develop critical engagement with literature.
Develop skills to interrogate the foundations of scholarly arguments.
Understand how to position your research within theoretical frameworks.
Articulate your unique contribution to the scholarly conversation.
Develop your distinctive scholarly voice and authoritative writing style.
Choose the payment plan that works best for you.
Single instalment
₦35,000
Two instalments
₦40,000
₦30,000 first instalment
Institutional pricing available on request. Contact us
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