Most humans are terrible at estimating time. Usually because every detail is rarely considered, or known, coupled with misperceptions about how long it takes to do various tasks.

For your science to have an impact, it needs to be accessible to as many people as possible.

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

Project management is a structured process to actively plan and implement strategies to manage risks to projects and identify and enhance opportunities.

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

A scientist is one of the few professions where failure means progress. No one wants their project or experiments to fail, but a large part of science is failing and learning it.

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.