Keys to Running Successful Research Projects All the Things They Never Teach You 1st Edition by Katherine Christian ISBN 9780128131343 0128131349

1. Getting Started

1.1. Introduction to Using This Book

1.2. Career Planning—Managing Yourself

1.3. Setting the Career Plan—and Your Research Priorities

1.4. Project Planning

1.5. Applying for Your Grant

1.6. Preparing the Budget for Your Project

1.7. Work With Your Research Office

1.8. Involving Consumers in Your Research

1.9. Enhance Your Reputation

2. Building Your Team

2.1. The Recruitment Process—Planning and Advertising

2.2. The Recruitment Process—Interviewing and Selecting

2.3. The Recruitment Process—Orienting Your Staff

2.4. Involving Volunteers

2.5. Managing Students

3. Collaborations

3.1. Finding the Right Collaborators

3.2. Establishing Your Collaborations

3.3. Collaborations Over Distance

4. Running the Studies

4.1. Elements of Project Planning

4.2. Detailed Project Planning

4.3. Understanding Agreements

4.4. Developing Your Study Methods

4.5. Data Storage and Management

4.6. Understanding Intellectual Property

4.7. Managing your Project Budget

4.8. Project Meetings

4.9. Marketing Your Research to Your Stakeholders

4.10. More About Marketing—Communication Planning

4.11. Equipment and Consumables

4.12. Study Participant Recruitment

4.13. Designing a Questionnaire and Accompanying Study Materials

4.14. Project Reporting

4.15. Risks and Issues

4.16. Project Advisory Committees

5. People Management: For Yourself and Your Team

5.1. Finding a Mentor

5.2. Looking After Your Team

5.3. Leadership

5.4. More About Managing Conflict

5.5. Mentoring the Next Generation

5.6. Developing Time Management Skills

5.7. Change Management

6. Wrapping Up Your Project

6.1. Considerations in the Last Months of Your Project

6.2. Winding Up Your Project Budget

6.3. Other Important Elements to Tidy Up at the End of Your Project

6.4. Further Project Communication

6.5. Post-Project Evaluation

7. Research Dissemination

7.1. Posters and Presentations

7.2. Step-by-Step Guide to the Publication Process

7.3. Next Steps—Promoting Your Publication—and Planning More

7.4. Documenting Your Research Impact

7.5. Facilitating Translation—Helping Your Research Move Into Practice

7.6. Commercializing Your Research Findings

8. Research Integrity and Responsible Conduct of Research

8.1. Introduction to Research Ethics

8.2. Ethics Requirements in Human and Animal Research

8.3. Breaches of Ethics and Research Misconduct

8.4. Handling an Adverse Event

8.5. Privacy and Confidentiality in Research

8.6. Other Ethical Considerations

8.7. Conflicts of Interest

9. When Things Go Wrong

9.1. Introduction—Potential Challenges in Your Research

9.2. Managing Work and Family Commitments

9.3. Gender Bias in the Workplace

9.4. Retrieving a Project Which Has Gone Wrong

9.5. Some Traps for the Unwary

10. Keeping an Eye to the Future

10.1. Career Management

10.2. What Comes Next?

10.3. Moving on Gracefully

A Addendum—Some Tips About Biobanking

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Index