Keys to Running Successful Research Projects

Part 1 Getting Started
1.1 Introduction to Using this Book
1.2 Career Planning – Managing Yourself
1.3 Setting the Career Plan
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
Part 2 Building your Team
2.1 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
Part 3 Collaborations
3.1 Finding the Right Collaborators
3.2 Establishing your Collaborations
3.3 Collaborations over Distance
Part 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
Part 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
Part 6 Wrapping up your Project
6.1 Considerations in the Last Months of your Project
6.2 Winding Up your Project Budget
6.3 Important Elements to Tidy Up at the End of Your Project
6.4 Further Project Communication
6.5 Post-Project Evaluation
Part 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
Part 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
Part 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
Part 10 Keeping an Eye to the Future
10.1 Career Management
10.2 What Comes Next
10.3 Moving on Gracefully

Addendum - Some tips about biobanking
Endorsement from
Sir Gustav Nossal
End and acknowledgements
Glossary