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Risk assessment and management plan

You are required to do a risk assessment at the beginning of your research degrees or once you have a clear idea of your research proposal.

A risk assessment needs to demonstrate that you are aware of the risks associated with undertaking activities during their research.

The Student Services Centre check to ensure you have submitted all the required documentation in your research proposal submission, which includes a risk assessment. The risk assessment (with management plan) must be discussed in detail, and signed off by you and your Supervisor once completed.

Risk assessment forms are available from the Research student forms web pages.

The project management plan

A management plan, which can be modified during the life of the thesis or project, should be drawn up in consultation with your supervisor to plan ways to mitigate the identified risks.

In drawing up a plan you will need to:

  • list all of the major activities that will have to take place to complete your project and thesis;
  • make an estimate of the time it is anticipated to complete your research project and thesis;
  • assign to each event or activity an estimate of time and a completion date;
  • identify those events or deadlines which are critical to the completion of your project and thesis; and
  • identify periods when few activities are taking place and determine what productive activities can be undertaken then.

It may be useful to identify the date of submission of the bound thesis, and to prepare a timeline of events and completion dates working back from this deadline.

The plan should be discussed with your supervisor to determine its adequacy and should be reviewed periodically to ensure its continued relevance and achievability.

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