Project Management
PhD School at the Faculty of SCIENCE at University of Copenhagen
This is a toolbox course where 80% of the seats are reserved for PhD students enrolled at the Faculty of SCIENCE at UCPH and 20% of the seats are reserved for PhD students from other Danish Universities/faculties (except CBS). Seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university (except CBS), you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.
Aim and Content
This course introduces you to basic concepts and tools to be used in project management. The knowledge and skills you will gain are generic and transferable across organizations and different kinds of projects. Most important is of course your own phd project. A very concrete outcome of the course is that you will be able to formulate and establish a detailed and operational project plan for your phd. A traditonal phd plan might not be particulary operational for the phd student and most offen not detailed enough for you to be able to be in control.
Aiming at how to manage a project the course will take you through the different phases in a project:
1) initiating/defining
2) planning
3) executing
4) closing.
The focus in the course will be on the planning phase and you will be presented with tools useful in steering deliverables, cost, time, risk management and stakeholder management.
The planning phase is crucial for steering the execution of a project but so is the ability to lead a project team. Therefore the course will touch on how to lead a team and on team dynamics.
The course provides a basic understanding of the different parts of project management in order to develop the skills of the PhD students contributing to a future job. But the knowledge and skills the course provides are not only for future use. PhD-students can apply the project management tools to their own PhD-project. The course will be a mix of lectures, exercises and teamwork. There will be examples from how companies work with projects and the course will be conducted in corporation with professional project managers from private companies.
Learning outcome
On completion of the course the participant is expected to have gained a practical foundation for planning, controlling and conducting projects.
Knowledge:
This includes knowledge of:
- The concepts of projects, different phases and the project life cycle
- Team dynamics
- Project Leadership
Skills:
Skills and experiences in:
- Being able to initiate and defining a project
- Being able to plan for milestones and deliverables
- Being able to create schedule for costs, time and resources
- Being able to carry out both risk and stakeholder analysis
- Effective communication and cooperation in teamwork
- Negotiation with stakeholders
- Leading a team
Competencies:
Being in control in own PhD project
Steering and leading projects in professional settings after graduation
Target Group
The course is aimed at Ph.D. students at any stage of their project.
Recommended Academic Qualifications
The are no specific academic qualifications recommended
Literature
A compilation of lecture slides and lecture notes will be available throughout the course, together with a list of suggested readings.
One of the items on this list will be
Gido, J; J. Clements & R. Baker (2018): Successful Project Management, 7th ed. Cengage.
Teaching and learning methods
The activities on the course will be a mix of lectures, instructions, exercises and teamwork.
Type of Assessment
A week after the last course day each course participant must submit a reflection essay that needs to be approved
Remarks
A full course program including a plan for the suggested pre-course reading will be available two weeks prior to the first course day. Expect activities between 8.30 am and 4.00 pm.
Course responsibles:
Tina Hansen (tih@ifro.ku.dk)
Anders Dahl (and@ifro.ku.dk)
Lecturers:
Morten Meldgaard, Project Director, Chr. Hansen A/S
Stig Lykke Iversen, Department Manager, Radiometer Medical ApS
Expected frequency
It is expected that the course will be held in week 26 every year
Course location
Frederiksberg Campus
Course fee
• Participant fee: 6000 DKK
• PhD student enrolled at SCIENCE: 0 DKK
• PhD student from Danish PhD school Open market: 0 DKK
• PhD student from Danish PhD school not Open market: 3000 DKK
• PhD student from foreign university: 3000 DKK
• Master's student from Danish university: 0 DKK
• Master's student from foreign university: 3000 DKK
• Non-PhD student employed at a university (e.g., postdocs): 3000 DKK
• Non-PhD student not employed at a university (e.g., from a private company): 8400 DKK
Cancellation policy
• Cancellations made up to two weeks before the course starts are free of charge.
• Cancellations made less than two weeks before the course starts will be charged a fee of DKK 3.000
• Participants with less than 80% attendance cannot pass the course and will be charged a fee of DKK 5.000
• No-show will result in a fee of DKK 5.000
• Participants who fail to hand in any mandatory exams or assignments cannot pass the course and will be charged a fee of DKK 5.000
Course fee and participant fee
PhD courses offered at the Faculty of SCIENCE have course fees corresponding to different participant types.
In addition to the course fee, there might also be a participant fee.
If the course has a participant fee, this will apply to all participants regardless of participant
type - and in addition to the course fee.