Project Management for PhD Students in Pharmaceurtical Sciences
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3728-13-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 23/03/2013
Date and time21.05.2013, at: 09:00 - 04.06.2013, at: 16:00
Regular seats16
Course fee4,200.00 kr.
LecturersMichael Timm
Lasse Bak
ECTS credits3.60
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk
Aim and content
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.

Days: 21-22. maj and 3-4 june 2013

Note: This is a generic course. This means that it is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are a student at another graduate school you will be placed on waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list.