Jen Heidenheim
Administrative Assistant, Research
Email: jheidenh@uwo.ca
Phone: 519.661.2111 (x88547)
ADAPT: Automated Grant Feedback Workshop
Automated grant feedback functions as an on-demand, virtual pre-review panel. It rapidly evaluates draft proposals against the complex adjudication criteria, structural requirements, and compliance standards governing research funding competitions. This diagnostic tool delivers specific, actionable critiques that surface gaps in logic, misalignments with a competition's specific criteria, and internal inconsistencies.
Automated grant feedback encodes the concerns real peer reviewers raise again and again. This includes objections, requests for clarification, and points of skepticism that recur across adjudication committees. In this way, it evaluates a draft against the lens a panel is likely to bring, not just the published guidelines. It turns diffuse, hard-won reviewer wisdom into something researchers can act on well before submission, flagging the predictable stumbling blocks while there's still time to address them. The system doesn't replace human intellect or write the grant itself; it adds another informed perspective to the process to help researchers strengthen the clarity, coherence, and competitiveness of what they submit.
