Notes from the drawing table
Short pieces on captions, denominators, and the awkward month before a UK funder review — written from the same work as our commissions.
What UK funders actually scan in an outcome figure
Panel members rarely rebuild your spreadsheet. They look for a denominator, a time window, and a caption that does not outrun the bars.
Writing captions that keep grant claims inside the evidence
A caption is the only sentence many trustees will read. It should name the measure, the group, and the limit — in that order.
Preparing the mid-term review annex without redrawing the whole report
Mid-term reviews punish last-minute figure lists. A claim register agreed in month eighteen saves the drawing week in month twenty-three.
Colour, print, and photocopy: making grant figures survive a board pack
Many trustee packs are still printed in greyscale. If the story vanishes when the blue becomes grey, the figure was never ready.
Working with a principal investigator in the last month of a reporting window
The last month is for checking definitions, not for discovering that site C used a different enrolment rule.