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

It can be difficult to identify risks and the impact they might have on your project because you don’t know what you don’t know!

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.

There will always be constraints when you are managing a scientific project – things that just cannot be compromised on.

Not everyone is a subject matter expert in your field, which means things that seem “common knowledge” to you, are not common knowledge to others.

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.

At the beginning of your project, you should clearly understand what the project is planning to achieve as the primary outcome.

There is truth behind the saying, “a picture tells a thousand words”, because humans interpret images better than written words.