Project Management resource for PhD students and supervisors
Project management is about supervisors and students finding a way to work together. Find here a selection of interesting blog posts and free templates.
Guidelines to draw a timeline of your PhD
Gantt charts are a highly visual and attractive medium to foster project management discussions. Download for free my Excel file and make your own timeline
Are Gantt charts useful for PhD students?
Yes, but there are some drawbacks. Use it to visualize your whole PhD or to plan the next 2 months. Stay flexible and realistic, adjust a Gantt chart with time.
Let’s try to plan a realistic To-Do list for the week
Plan only 60% of the week and clarify what you truly “need to have” done versus the “nice to have”. Tips in time and project management
How to use retro-planning to plan your PhD graduation
To plan for the different steps of writing, submitting and defending a thesis. The big difference comes when you to take the time to write it down, visualize it
How project management can help reducing PhD students’ anxieties
Finally being able to visualize my graduation and to apply true project management techniques helped me feeling so much better. Supervisors and students need to clarify their long-term expectations
Do senior scientists acknowledge the importance of early soft skills training for their PhD students?
an EMBO survey where senior scientists were asked to rate which soft skills they think are more important for their PhD students, and which ones they rate as more important for themselves
Lack of communication about soft skills training programs in academia
it is only by welcoming direct discussions about soft skills within institutes and with all academics’ levels that new PhD students can find the training and mental support they need
Where can I find soft skills training in academia?
as a new PhD student, I lacked the academic jargon to look for training programs which could have helped me. Use this article to open up the discussion around you.
How to know which soft skills training is best for my career?
You can’t know for sure what is best, but it’s OK, we’re all in the same mess. It’s like an experiment for yourself, it will help no matter what life brings you
