How Should I Manage the Research Project?

Abstract

In this chapter, we explore how to take a project planning approach to managing your research journey as a means of reducing uncertainty and risk. Managing your research project is essentially all about planning and mapping your research journey and it will require time and energy to do it effectively. Effective planning will give you a scaffold from which to work as well as a way of monitoring your progress. We will discuss strategies for understanding how your work should be structured in relation to the kind of project you expect to do, then deciding how to best to allocate the time and other resources you have available in order to maximise your chances of meeting key milestones on the way toward submission of your final research outcome.