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.

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.

In everyday life, work, and science projects, people generally don’t like to talk about risk. There is a perception that talking about risk will stop something from happening (e.g. a project).

Writing a report for research you have completed that was funded externally is generally compulsory, so you should know how to write a good report.

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.

In Australia, there are codes and principles for the conduct of research that are adopted as legal requirements in various legislation.

Timing is a very important aspect of research – especially regarding communication. .

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.