The first step in project risk planning and management is identifying what the potential positive and negative risks are for your project and capturing these in the risk register.

Communication of your science is core to your science having impact, and the well-established way to present scientific findings is in the form of an abstract.

Scientists want to create positive changes and do work that is impactful.

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.

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

It is important to have key messages for your research ready to go so that you can effectively communicate your work in a way that it is easy for most people to understand.

Once you’ve identified your risks you can then set about putting things in place to minimise or avoid negative risks, increase chances of an opportunity arising or its impact, and working out which risks should just be accepted.

The ethics of using animals in research is a large and complex subject.