Managing Your Academic Research Project

This book is an essential resource for academics managing a large and complex research project. It provides important practical insights into the processes that inform such research projects and delivers insights into the delicate balance between industry, stakeholder and academic needs. It gives practical advice about developing relationships with diverse partners and colleagues and managing the expectations of the various parties involved and on avoiding pitfalls. This book uses examples from Australian research projects, but it contains insights relevant to researchers all around the world.

• Managing Your Academic Research Project
• Project Management for Academics
• Academic Research Project Management
• Negotiating Industry and Academic Relationships
• Project Management Framework
• Funding Bodies for Research
• Stakeholder Relationship
• Research Project Management
• Research and Data
• Multi-Year Research Project
• Budgets and Reporting for Project Management
• Research Team
• research ethics

• Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

  Jacqui Ewart

• Central Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia

  Kate Ames

Jacqui Ewart is a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Griffith University in Australia. Jacqui’s main research interests focus on news media representations of Muslims and disasters communication. After working as a journalist and communications manager for more than a decade, she moved into academia where she has led several large research projects with multiple industry government partners and has worked with industry and academic colleagues internationally. She has authored, co-authored and edited five books and published in international journals in a wide range of fields.

Kate Ames has a background in media and communication, having worked as a journalist and editor before a long career in military public affairs. She has been an academic since 2001 and more recently, has led complex innovation projects in learning design at CQUniversity. Her research interests are in storytelling in the public sphere, encompassing broadcast talk, regional media, disastercommunication, health promotion, and distance learning.  

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