Research ACADEMY – SustAInLivWork – Project Management

Project management for research collaboration: an introduction.
Any human endeavour that involves working together to achieve specific goals needs some sort of framework for engagement. Good project management provides this, yet many researchers are fearful of too much control taking away freedom to explore new ideas. This webinar provides an introduction to the art of managing multi-disciplinary, multi-organisational research projects. It is relevant for researchers, research managers and anyone dealing with research contracts.

Your Trainer: Monica Schofield CEng FIET MAPM

Monica heads the business unit Consultancy and Competence Development at Tutech, a company owned by Hamburg University of Technology providing research management and tech transfer services. She has over 30 years’ experience of project management of research and innovation projects. Monica was a pioneer in the mid-1990s in setting up training workshops specifically regarding the management of research and innovation projects funded by the European Commission and its agencies.

Before joining Tutech in 1999, Monica was involved with innovation management in industry large and small in Sweden, the UK and Germany in the field of robotics and applied AI. She is the founding editor of the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery. She has been an expert advisor in various capacities to the European Commission on matters relating to research and innovation policy. She has also been the reviewer for the Swedish Strategic Innovation Programmes (SIP).

Monica has a degree in engineering science from the University of Durham, is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Member of the Association for Project Management.