Project Management Essentials for Researchers is presented by Fistral
Attention all researchers and academics! Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by the chaos of your projects? Do you dream of streamlined processes, on-time deliverables, and stress-free research journeys? Look no further – the Project Management Essentials for Researchers Workshop is here to transform your academic pursuits!
📚 What to Expect:
Sessions combine and build on each other to provide an introduction to the process of managing projects and the tools to assist in planning and tracking progress within the landscape of research projects. This is particularly important where time constraints (e.g. funding period), limited budget (e.g. awarded grant), competing priorities (e.g. research, teaching, team or line management support) and scarce resources (e.g. individual or small team, access to equipment/facilities/data) compete to provide a challenging backdrop to the ‘real work’, i.e. the research itself.
Participants will begin to apply PM tools and techniques directly to their own work and thereby create ‘live’ outputs. Application and reflection to individual work ensures the series will be relevant and practical with opportunities in each webinar for hands-on activities. Sharing individual experiences and reflection will be actively encouraged in each session, and participants will be asked to provide contributions throughout the series in the main forum and via the chatroom.
🕒Commitment:
Session 1: focuses on establishing good foundations for your project and plan and by the end.
Session 2: Scope and outputs of the project, and the focus on understanding the tools and techniques, and on personal application.
Session 3: Brings together all of the learning from previous courses, to create a rigorous and robust, evidence-based, project plan.
Session 4: Considers uncertainty, something inherent to research. The focus is on presenting tools and techniques to proactively identify and respond to risks during the planning process, rather than reactively during the project.
🎓Who Can Apply?
This workshop is open to all researcher staff across Academic Units and Centres.
📅 Date: TBA
📍 Location: Zoom, online
🎫 Register Now:
The next delivery of Project Management Essentials will run in 2025.
📧For inquiries, contact Researcher.Development@unisa.edu.au