The workshop is designed to give PhD students a broad and comprehensive perspective into strategies, tools, techniques and a set of collective experiences related to management of a PhD project. The content covers areas such as knowledge management, progress management, analysis and software management, reporting and dissemination as well as human interaction aspects of the project management. We will discuss “dos and don’ts” and a set of best practices around the mentioned areas, and also include time for discussion and exchange of personal experiences.
Learning outcomes
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Knowledge management: acquiring, organizing, preserving knowledge
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Knowledge and reference management tools
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Progress management: Quick note-taking, Progress logs, Gantt chart and thinking ahead
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Project management tools
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Analysis and software management: Inline code documentation, Function and module based code development, Version control, Dependency and environment management, Making R and python packages
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Reporting and dissemination: R markdown, Jupyter notebook, Quarto, Shiny, Github, Zenodo
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Teamwork and coordination: Progress update to collaborators, Self assessment of the progress, Keeping up morale
Prerequisites
None
Target audience
The course is ideally designed for first year PhD students but those beyond the first year can benefit from it as well.
Required Materials
None