The British Academy for Training and Development offers a professional training course in Essential Science Project Management. No scientific project succeeds without effective management. This course provides the necessary background to emphasize the importance of managing scientific projects. Young scientists become sensitive to the central role of project management in their professional careers and the need for effective management of scientific projects to maximize their benefits. This course reviews the principles of scientific project management for students and supervisors. Case studies are discussed to demonstrate pitfalls aimed at risk management.

Who should attend? 

• A scientific expert responsible for managing scientific projects.
• Students looking to start a career in academia or the private sector.
• Supervisors, PhD students and interns who want to acquire skills in managing scientific projects.
• Science manager.

How attendees will benefit? 

After completion of the course, delegates will understand: 

• Explain the importance of vision to motivation and engagement.
• Apply a scientific approach to motivate those around you.
• Strategically maximize your personal and positional power for better project outcomes.
• Determine influence and network development strategies needed for personal growth.
• Know how to meet the communication challenges associated with different personality styles.
• Correlate stakeholder expectations with project success criteria.
• Evaluate key stakeholders across different dimensions of complexity.
• Applying Four Rules of Fact Negotiation to Real Conflict Situations.
• Recognizing Important Aspects of Physiological Responses to Conflict.
• Choose the right tools and techniques to "beat" emotional situations.
• Make the most of different strategies and tactics to deal with workplace ambiguity.

Introduction to Science Project Management:

• Definition of a scientific project
• What is development?
• Innovation pipeline.
• Research and innovation: the role of Government; Public/Academic sector; Private sector.

Scientific project management:

• Why are scientific projects managed differently?
• Project management processes.
• Project lifecycle.
• Project leader: Skills Scientists Need to Lead Scientific Projects.

Project Concept and Initiation:

• Project Context.
• Project Feasibility.
• Summary of project requirements.
• Check the restrictions.
• Position of a project in a career plan.

Project Planning:

• Project plan 101.
• Level of responsibility.
• Five Aspects of the Project.

Experimental Plan:

• Type of study design.
• Controls.
• Bias.
• Statistics.
• Randomization.
• Measurements.

Operational Management:

• Good Laboratory Practice.
• Resources.
• Standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Assessment and audit.
• Ethical behaviour in science.
• Emergency management.
• Work and health protection.

Resource Management:

• Purpose.
• Available resources.
• Procurement.
• Waste management.

Human Resource Management:

• Working with people.
• Social ability.
• Cooperation.
• Communication.
• Conflict management.
• Team work.
• Time management.
• Stress Control.

Reporting Process Management:

• What is reported to whom?
• Effective Reporting.

Data Management:

• Purpose.
• Scientific challenges of data.
• Data collection and generation.
• Organising data.
• Data documentation: Lab books.

Document and information management:

• E-mail.
• Phone.
• Storage.
• Security.
• Archiving.
• Literature searches.

Quality Management (QM):

• Purpose of QM in research.
• Quality Assurance (QA).

• Quality Control (QC).

Project Time Management:

• Purpose.
• Time estimations.
• Effort and duration.
• Contingency plans.
• Project network diagram.
• Project timeline: Deadlines; timeline management.
• Measure progress.
• Risk management.

Financial Management:

• Financial plan.
• Budget.
• Funding.
• Financial Records.
• Taxes and duties.
• Legislation.

Risk Management:

• Risk plan.
• Risk Identification, Assessment and Evaluation.
• Risk Management.