1. Planning your Industrial Project: Risk, Ethics and Project Management
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Planning your Industrial Project:
Risk, Ethics and Project Management

2. The research cycle

3. OUTCOMES FOR TODAY
Q. Progress update? Please now liaise with me directly
Moodle page is active; Studley Trust deadline 4th Nov (some eligible, not all).
Aims:
Prepare a basic risk assessment and discuss the ethical implications of your study.
Produce a basic GANTT chart indicating the project plan.

4. Managing Risk Adherence to University of Northampton policy. Context.
Task: Complete an outline risk assessment on the template – share with your neighbour for comment.

5. Ethics Ethics = morals, ‘norms for conduct in research’.
Academic scandal! Scientific misconduct (fraud, fabrication of data and plagiarism)….. withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers
Watch: environment or Comments?
Q. Considerations for human and animal experimentations? Example YGKM - critical comments?
Q. So what are the ethical considerations of your study? Draw up a list and be prepared to share with your peers.

6. Planning Your Project: Tools of the Trade
Planning your work (long-term): GANTT chart (=network diagram).
Q. Why bother?
A GANTT chart visually depicts a project schedule and work breakdown structure using an bar chart depiction. % completion can be tracked.
Use the template available on Moodle.

7. TYPICAL GANTT CHART

8. TASK
Draw up a realistic GANTT chart for your likely topic from now until May 2016.
Step one:
Identify your activity prompts and allocate a realistic time budget to each one.
Step two:
Now format your GANTT chart with labels for task, duration and times.
When you are finished, ask your neighbour for comment.

9. Other Planning Tools
Mind mapping: free online tools - can be exported
Managing ideas: free tool
Planning your work (short-term): by day or by week (has an App): or ed.net/

10. What we Did…..
Formatted a basic risk assessment and discussed the ethical implications of your study.
Produced a basic GANTT chart indicating the initial stages of your project plan.
MORE INFORMATION
Review:
Watch: BBC Horizon ‘Playing God’, BoB

11. Planning your industrial project : conclusive remarks
Q. Can you now use these techniques for your actual project?