Project Management for Researchers | Entrepreneurship Skills Series

For grad students, postdocs, and researchers in any discipline: practical project management skills over three free lunches by SHCE & CGPS.
About this Event

Every research project is a project. Few researchers are ever taught to manage one.

Timelines slip, scope grows, supervisors and collaborators pull in different directions, and the plan lives mostly in your head. Project management is the fix: a set of practical, transferable skills for scoping work, setting milestones, managing risks, and finishing what you start. It serves your thesis now and follows you into any career after it.

Join the Slogotski Hunt Centre for Entrepreneurship (SHCE) and the College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (CGPS) for Project Management for Researchers, a three-part lunchtime series in the Entrepreneurship Skills Series for Researchers, built for graduate students, postdocs, and the wider grad community from every discipline.

Across the three sessions, you will learn to:

• Scope a project accurately: define what done looks like before you start
• Break big, ambiguous goals into milestones, tasks, and realistic timelines
• Spot risks early and manage the ones that could sink your schedule
• Keep supervisors, collaborators, and partners aligned as the work evolves

This is one series, not three drop-ins. Register once and plan to attend all three sessions in person, since each builds on the last.

The details

Wednesdays: November 4, November 18, and December 2, 2026
12:00 to 1:00 pm
Murray Library, room 145
In person only. Lunch provided.

Don't forget about Technology Maturation on October 14!

Questions? Reach us at [email protected].