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Staff Development

Research Team Leadership

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Objective: The overall objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for the sharing of good practice about the skills required to lead and manage major research projects. More specifically the workshop aims to explore issues such as;

  • The nature of leadership and management in a highly focused research environment.
  • The role of the principal investigator and senior researcher as project leader.
  • How to deal with challenging people and leadership issues, again in a research based context.
  • How to support very high performers, and
  • How to better understand the team dynamics which occur in a research team and how to gain further self insight to enable these to be addressed.