Our Commitments, Goals And Initiatives For Researchers

Letter from our Founder

Abhishek Goel

Co-founder & CEO, Cactus Communications

As a researcher, you face innumerable challenges: the pressure to publish, find funding, conduct fieldwork, teach, and juggle other responsibilities..

We know all this comes at a cost. You are away from family. You work on weekends and holidays. You’re always thinking about the big problem you are going to solve.

We have seen you take great pains to communicate your research, get people excited about what you do and have to say, and onboard them onto your purpose. Your determination and unwavering dedication to make the world a better place has not gone unnoticed.

Twenty years ago, we started Editage with the aim of helping researchers overcome the language barrier and meet their publication goals. We believed that your research was important, and language should not be the hurdle that stops you from changing the world.

Researcher.Life evolved from our deep study of the needs of over half a million researchers who have been Editage customers—busy scientists and academics on the cusp of the next breakthrough. This platform is built on the experience, expertise, and trust that Editage has accumulated in the last 20 years. Through Researcher.Life, we aim to improve all aspects of your researcher journey – through publication and beyond.

With Researcher.life our mission is to create a space where we can focus on you…so that you can focus on your research. That’s also why our logo highlights you, the researcher.

Abhishek Goel

Researcher.Life Manifesto

We give time back to the researcher

We want to minimize the time you spend writing, reformatting, submitting, reviewing, planning lectures, and applying for grants, and instead help you maximize your impact.

We optimise systems for the researcher.

We place more control into your hands by making systems more human-centric, rewarding, and ethical.

Research is important, but researchers are more so

We recognize the ever-growing demands of you and provide practical means of support, mentorship, and advice to look after the most important asset of all – you.

We help you to help the world

We provide ways to share your research to global audiences with lay summaries and social media collateral.

We take the search out of research

We know your work, interests, and preferences, and will proactively recommend content, conferences, funding, and collaborators so you have them at your fingertips.

This is our manifesto on redesigning academia around researchers. What do you think about it?

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Researcher.Life Advisory Board

The Researcher.Life Advisory Board is a group of innovative academics from across the globe who are committed to changing academia for the better. Each of them supports the Researcher.Life vision and provides inputs, feedback, and advice on our collective journey towards realizing this vision.

Dr. Abel Polese

Senior Researcher, Dublin City University; currently Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto

Dr. Adriana Bankston

Principal legislative analyst, University of California Federal Governmental Relations

Dr. Apisalome Movono

Senior Lecturer at Massey University

Daniela Saderi, Ph.D

Co-Founder, Director, PREreview

Dr. Elliot C. Brown

Senior Lecturer for Quality Assurance and Program Development, Arden University, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Leigh Hall

Professor, University of Wyoming; Wyoming Excellence Endowed Chair in Literacy Education

Dr. Olumuyiwa Asaolu

Associate Professor, Department of Systems Engineering, University of Lagos

Dr. Robin Kay

Dean and Professor, Faculty of Education, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Serge Horbach

Postdoctoral fellow at the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University

Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza

Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced

Researcher.life Ambassador program

Through the Researcher.Life Ambassador Program, we have created a global community of researchers who chose to lead through mentoring and collaboration with other researchers.

We partner with Ambassadors in various activities such as building research communication skills, providing mentorship, opportunities, and guiding in publication support, and conducting upskilling and wellness initiatives. Ambassadors empower themselves and their academic communities with our advanced tools and services.

Our Ambassadors

Nour El Houda Benlakhdar,

PhD Student, University of Northampton, U.K.

“This, I think is a great opportunity for me to start and get engaged with the wider researcher community.”

Acep Purquon,

Director of International Office, Institute of Technology Sumatera, Indonesia

“I think it will be a great future platform on demand to speed up the cohesive research community.”

Yuliya Shtaltovna,

University Lecturer University of Europe for Applied Sciences, Germany

“The opportunity to connect with people from all around the world and see the faces who are interested in research, cheers us up and makes us go further.”

Shervin Hashemi,

Postdoctoral Researcher Yonsei University, South Korea

“I am using the services provided by Cactus – Editage for about a decade. These services are very helpful for me and I wish to thank everyone”

Want to help us nurture the researcher community?

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Our Company Initiatives

Initiatives from our parent company Cactus Communications, working toward a better research culture

Cactus Foundation – Mental Health Survey, 2020

13,000 researchers gave us their views on what a more nurturing research culture would look like. One of the largest and most diverse global surveys on mental health among researchers

Download the report

ScienceTalks

Established in Japan in 2013, ScienceTalks is driven by the motto "Making science more powerful and exciting." ScienceTalks is a thriving community and platform that seeks to provide an open forum that brings together research stakeholders like government policymakers, funders, publishers, and researchers.

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All Things SciComm

All Things SciComm is a weekly podcast series where we collaborate with industry experts and change-makers to address the future of science and science communication. The podcast series covers important conversations around research funding, publication technology, sci-tech policy, sustainable development goals, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and more.

Listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast.

Our commitment to researchers

Letter from our Founder

Researcher.Life Manifesto