It takes a certain kind of person, commitment and perseverance to be a successful scientist, in any field or application…but take a moment to think about all the skills that you have developed as a scientist.

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

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

If people cannot understand or find your project, the chances of it being highly successful are decreased.

There is the need to write in any project you do. What needs to be written, and how much of your time it takes will be different for everyone, but most scientists will underestimate how much of their time will be spent writing.

Governments make policy and legislative decisions that have long-term effects on society.

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!

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.

Scientific experiments need to be replicable, otherwise the credibility of any results you get may become questionable if no one else can demonstrate what you did.