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This project focused on the development of project management skills - particularly those required to collaborate on research projects with partners at institutional, national and international level in the social sciences. Skills needs of early career, mid-career and established career researchers were identified through interviews as they commence, progress and conclude work on a project. The resultant framework was offered as a model for developing institutional strategies for developing researchers' skills at a regional level. A sample of researchers at each stage was interviewed to identify skills needs. The framework arising was used to develop guidance for consideration and trial among partner institutions in the midland region. The researcher sample was followed up over the project to explore their development. They also acted as a reference group throughout the study. |
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Authors
People who originated and developed this resource were based in the University of Warwick. The original authors of this resource was Prof. Geoff Lindsay based in the University of Warwick. They along with the support team at Warwick worked actively on the resource site until December 2008. The ReStore team will remain intouch with the principal investigator concerning further updates and maintenance of this resource in the future.
Original Project
The project aims to bring together groups of researchers with similar experiences and issues to jointly develop better ways of establishing and maintaining effective collaborative working relations in research project teams. For more details please see
Quick Summary
The 'Managing Research Projects' Toolkit was produced by a Round 1 project funded through the Researcher Development Initiative. The toolkit includes a back of resources aimed at researchers at all careers stages and includes:
- Techniques, guidelines, and 'top tips', with generic guidance and more specialist advice to help Social Science researchers to establish and maintain better collaborative working relations in small, medium and large-scale projects.
- Techniques, guidelines and top tips drawn from the experience of social science research leaders.
- A mix of generic and more specialist advice and guidance on building and developing collaborative teams.
Key achievements of the project include:
- By working with researchers across different career stages, the project 'trained the trainers' to support and promote the development of project management and collaboration skills in others
- It also used a 'train the trainers' approach to disseminate the findings and the outcomes of the project, and to help partner institutions to develop strategies for the development of their researchers' project management and collaboration skills.
- Outcome from the above was shared with the broader HE community in a useable and 'time-relevant' format
Controlled keywords: | MRP toolkit ;themes and resources ; team development ; research process skills ;staff communication ;professional development |
Classification: | Research Skills, Communication and Dissemination > Researching Literature |
| Research Skills, Communication and Dissemination > Conference Posters and Presentations > | |
| Research Skills, Communication and Dissemination > E-learning > | |
| Research Skills, Communication and Dissemination > Teaching and Supervising Sills > |
Date of Restoration
This web resource has been restored into ReStore repository on 17/12/2010.