Project Management for PhD Students in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Course objectives
To provide fundamental tools and hands-on experience with project management. Focus will be on how to apply project management to individual PhD projects as well as managing team projects.
General contents and topics
The course will introduce participants to the basic tools of project management including defining purpose, deliverables, result paths, milestones, success criteria, planning activities, performing risk assessment and how to draw up budgets for the work planned. The aim is to demonstrate how these tools can be used to design master project plans for the successful completion of individual PhD projects. Further topics covered will include:
- Project management in academic research
- The one- (wo)man project and self-management
- Project management in the pharmaceutical industry
- How to manage and be part of a project group
- Conflict management
- Application of project management software
General information
The four-day course (2+1+1 day) will be organised with periods in between for self-study and project work. The course will include interactive lectures by project managers from both academia and the pharmaceutical industry. Course topics will be supported by exercises, casework and independent work on own projects.
Course material: Handouts from presentations and selected chapters from the book "The Essentials of Project Management" by Dennis Lock.
Evaluation
All participants are required to design a master project plan for their own thesis project, which will serve as the basis for final course evaluation. The plan must be submitted no later than one week after the completion of the course. Course directors will evaluate each student’s performance on a pass/fail basis.
Duration
11 to 12 June, 18 and 20 June 2012.
Course weight
3 ECTS credit points (European Credit Transfer System).
70 working hours (12 for preparation, 28 for course, and 30 for project plan and evaluation).
Course directors
Associate Professor Lasse Bak and Assistant Professor Michael Timm, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
Course fee
Total course fee: DKK 6,100 (including lunch),
of which operating costs: DKK 1,000.
Deadline for application
1 April 2012.
Course capacity
16 participants.
NB
The course is primarily offered to PhD students in the pharmaceutical sciences but PhD students from other natural sciences may participate.
The course will be held in English.
