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.

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.

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.

Projects are defined by three main constraints – time, cost and quality. Managing the budget is part of the third stage of project management documentation to mitigate project risks.