For your science to have an impact, it needs to be accessible to as many people as possible.

Projects, just like anything in life, don’t always go to plan. If, or when, something goes wrong, or something unexpected happens with your project, you are likely going to have to alter your scope, outcome or possibly even resources to still achieve an effective outcome for your project and make the intended impact.

If people cannot understand or find your project, the chances of it being highly successful are decreased.

Communications can present the greatest risks to a project, as such, most funding organisations will require you to create a communications plan with your project.

‘Collaboration’ is powerful when there is diversity of opinion involved, as opposed to working together on someone else’s idea which would be ‘cooperation’.

There will always be constraints when you are managing a scientific project – things that just cannot be compromised on.

Scientific experiments need to be replicable, otherwise the credibility of any results you get may become questionable if no one else can demonstrate what you did.