Research Project Management and Leadership

"""P. Alison Paprica has crystalized the essentials of project management into practical, digestible training with ready-to-use tools that are easily incorporated into work to improve deliverable-based project planning and management. Her training is readily applicable within and beyond research settings. I have recommended her project management training to colleagues, trainees, and students, and the shared consensus is that the training is incredibly valuable and yields tangible results.""--Meghan McMahon, Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto ""This practical handbook on project management is essential reading for anyone involved in the research enterprise who aspires to a leadership position. The interviews with research leaders provide valuable guidance and keen insights into lessons learned.""--Reinhart Reithmeier, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto ""This handbook is designed to meet the needs of a broad range of researchers - investigators, collaborators, graduate students and postdocs, and research management staff. Deliberately practical in its intent and content responding to the management challenges created by the increasing complexity of research projects, programs, and platforms, the book offers a systematic approach to presenting best practices in research management. Research Project Management and Leadership is informed by Paprica's own extensive experience in government, academic, and allied settings, and augmented substantially by verbatim narratives drawn from interviews with colleagues in various research-related sectors and settings.""--Martin Taylor, Past Executive Director, Canadian Research Data Centre Network ""This handbook provides practical information for the management of research projects. P. Alison Paprica has crafted a practical rather than academic treatment of the subject, with useful information, pragmatic tools, and advice for research project management.""--Bert van den Berg, Innovation Policy Consultant, and former Director of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada"