Project management for PhD students
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3728-15-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 17/04/2015
Date and time27.04.2015, at: 09:00 - 05.05.2015, at: 16:00
Regular seats16
Course fee4,560.00 kr.
LecturersLasse Bak
ECTS credits3.50
Contact personMarianne Wieslander Jørgensen    E-mail address: marianne.joergensen@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
Please note: This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the 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.

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

a. demonstrate knowledge about the common tools employed in project management
b. manage the work involved in their project
c. navigate in an academic environment with multiple stakeholders

Content
The course will introduce participants to the basic tools of project management including defining the purpose, deliverables, result paths, milestones, success criteria, planning activities, performing risk assessment and how to create budgets for the work planned. The aim is to demonstrate how these tools can be applied to create master project schedules for the successful completion of individual PhD projects. Further topics covered will include:
• Project management as practised in academic research
• The one (wo)man project and self-management
• Project management in the pharmaceutical industry
• Conflict management

Participants
The course is primarily targeted at PhD students in their first year of study but all students are welcome and will benefit from the course.

Language
English

Form
The form is a mixture of lectures, discussions and group work.

Course director
Lasse K. Bak, associate professor
Dept. of Drug Design and Pharmacology
laba@sund.ku.dk
Ph. 35 33 64 03

Teachers
Lasse K. Bak, PhD, associate professor (course director)

Michael Timm, PhD, senior microbiologist at Eurofins Pharma

Daniel R. Greve, PhD, senior scientist at Leo Pharma

Bjørn Nygaard, “Center for Konfliktløsning”


Course secretary
None

Dates
27-28 April and 4-5 May, 2015.

Course location
Room U23, 160 Jagtvej, 2100, Copenhagen

Registration: Please register before 17 April 2015.

Admission to PhD students from Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the rules in force.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrollment.