There are more elements to a presentation than just what goes on PowerPoint slides and what you say.

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.

Risk management is what you do when a ‘risk’ becomes an ‘issue’, which puts you in the situation where you have to work out how you are going to manage this issue to keep the project on track.

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

There is the need to write in any project you do. What needs to be written, and how much of your time it takes will be different for everyone, but most scientists will underestimate how much of their time will be spent writing.

Governments make policy and legislative decisions that have long-term effects on society.

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

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.