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. (MORE) OUTCOMES FOR TODAY
Q. Progress update? Please liaise with me directly
Moodle page is active.
Aims:
Prepare a basic risk assessment and discuss the ethical implications of your study.
Produce a draft GANTT chart indicating an outline project plan.

4. ‘Bad Science’ & Ethics
Academic scandal! Is scientific misconduct (fraud, fabrication of data and plagiarism) that common? withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers
Can you help battle ‘bad science’?: _bad_science
Ethics = morals, ‘norms for conduct in research’.
Watch: environment Comments?
Q. Considerations for human and animal experimentations?
Q. So what are the ethical considerations of your study? Draw up a list and share with your neighbour.

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

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.
Modify the templates available on Moodle.

7. TYPICAL GANTT CHART

8. TASK
Draw up a realistic GANTT chart for your likely topic from now until May, 2018.
Step one:
Identify your activity prompts and allocate a realistic time budget to each one from now until May.
Step two:
Now format your GANTT chart with labels for tasks, 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 draft GANTT chart indicating the initial stages of your project plan.
MORE INFORMATION
Review:
Watch: BBC Horizon ‘Playing God’

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