About us

Nature Masterclasses has been developed by Nature Research to provide professional development training for researchers. Nature Research is part of Springer Nature, a leading academic and educational publisher. Nature Research's flagship publication is Nature, a weekly multidisciplinary journal first published in 1869.

Nature Masterclasses began as a provider of scientific writing and publishing training — drawing on the expertise of journal editors at Nature Research. We expanded our training by launching two more online courses, Focus on Peer Review in 2016, and Effective Collaboration in Research, 2019. Our online offering grew further in 2020, with two new courses, Managing Research Data to Unlock its Full Potential and Narrative Tools for Researchers. To-date, over 50,000 researchers from over 180 countries have benefited from our training.

With our online course Narrative Tools for Researchers, researchers will learn how to improve their scientific communication using storytelling techniques.

This course has been developed in conjunction with expert science journalists, journal editors, science communication trainers and active researchers who employ narrative tools in their own research outputs.

Our online course Effective Collaboration in Research supports researchers who are participating in, or setting up and leading, collaborative projects.

The course is delivered by academics, funders, journal editors and experts in academia-industry collaborations.