Theme: Managing your Lab

Scientific Project Management

Courses:

• The Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Mount Royal University – Continuing Education
• University of Calgary – Continuing Education
• The University of Calgary also has an internationally renowned graduate program in Project Management
• University of Alberta - Graduate Certificate in Project Management

Books:

• "Linchpin" by Seth Godin.

Staffing

Books:

• At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator, Kathy Barker, 2002.

Documents available online:

• Guidebook for New Principal Investigators: Advice on Applying for a Grant, Writing Papers, Setting up a Research Team and Managing Your Time, Institute of Genetics, CIHR, 2005.
• Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, Burroughs Wellcome Fund & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2006.
• Staffing the Lab: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Bench, Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
• Nuts and Bolts of Managing a Research Lab(2 pages adapted from At the Helm and Making the Right Moves), UW Advance.
• Articles from Science Careers from the Journal Science
  1. An Interview with a Management Expert
  2. Avoiding Management Mistakes
  3. Competing for Grad Students
  4. Interviewing
  5. Lab Leadership
  6. Managing Knowledge Workers
  7. Management in the Lab
  8. Pls, Professionalism, Productivity
  9. Project Management Part 1
  10. Project Management Part 2
  11. Relocating with the Lab
  12. Rules for Beginners
  13. Staffing your Lab