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Managing Difficult Research Projects

Research projects are notoriously challenging beasts. From shifting goals and unexpected results to team conflicts and funding uncertainties, the path from idea to impact is rarely smooth. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the chaos of research project management, you’re not alone.

Join us for this intensive, day-long workshop led by Professor Inger Mewburn, where we’ll tackle the thorny issues that make research projects uniquely difficult. We’ll explore strategies for:

• Balancing multiple projects without losing your mind (or your data)
• Prioritising tasks when everything seems urgent
• Communicating effectively with interested people (and managing their
• expectations)
• Managing timelines and milestones in the face of uncertainty
• And using AI to help you do it all more efficiently!

Through a mix of practical exercises, group discussions, and real-world case studies, you’ll develop a toolkit for navigating the complexities of research project management. Whether you’re a PhD student juggling your first major project or a seasoned researcher herding multiple studies, you’ll leave with strategies to bring order to the chaos.

Professor Inger Mewburn is currently the Director of Researcher Development at The Australian National University who has been working with PhD students and early career academics since 2006.

She is the creator of the famous Thesis Whisperer blog, which has well over half a million words of content and more than 100,000 followers over multiple social media channels. The blog has been visited over 10 million times over the last decade and people have left well over 16 thousand comments. It has a truly global reach, with readers located all over the world.  The blog is the most popular source of advice for research supervisors and students around the world because it is grounded in scholarly practice in higher education research.