Most scientists at one stage or another are involved in the preparation and submission of an article or paper to a scientific journal.

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

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.

In science, you have to accept that you will always have critics, and not everyone will agree with your point of view.

Regardless of whether your project was a success, ended badly, or fell somewhere in between, there should always be a proper wrap up of the project.

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

The scope of your project is what you are contracted or obliged to do with the time and funding provided, this is what is considered ‘in scope’ for your project.