STEMskiller: Skill Set Map for Mentors of Early Career Researchers

CAREER MANAGEMENT: Leadership and teamwork

Managing for researchers

Definition:

Mentors may not have had training on managing people (managing research teams, managing a department) during the course of their education, particularly in STEM. 

Useful Managing for researchers resources:

Columbia Research. (n.d.). Managing a research group. https://research.columbia.edu/managing-research-group

Comprehensive guide including: Research Group Management Checklists, Selected Literature on Research Group Management and Faculty Mentoring, Examples of Laboratory and Notebook Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Tutorials, Departure of Staff, and Why to Consider a Written Manual for Your Research Group.

Dunn, B. (n.d.). Leading a productive research group. Oxford Learning Group. https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/support-researchers/principal-investigators/principal-investigations-blog-pis/leading-productive-research-group

Brief summary of “controllable” factors in leading productive groups gleaned from Bland & Ruffin’s 1992 literature review.

Tags: All IPS; all PSR; all G; all Comp

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Table of contents:

3.2. Leadership and teamwork

3.2.2. Project management
3.2.3. Decision making: crucial factors, processes and approaches
3.2.4. Conflict management
3.2.5. Self-efficiency ("independence") and academic perseverance
3.2.6. Social responsibility/taking on responsibility
3.2.7. Sustainable mobility strategies based on international cooperation
3.2.8. Intercultural collaboration skills: acting successfully in an international academic environment (includes international awareness, international communication)

Author: Stephanie Krueger

Peer Reviewer(s): None

Last Updated: February 9, 2021