Leadership Development for Principal Investigators

Case Studies

These case studies and scenarios demonstrate the diversity and complexity of the issues that PIs typically have to deal with. A number of PIs from different institutions in the UK have provided them. Each case study/scenario includes:

The materials are suitable for use as a stand-alone resource or incorporation into face-to-face training events, such as those on recruitment and selection.

We are extremely grateful to the PIs who have submitted these case studies. If you reproduce or amend these case studies for use in other formats please acknowledge their contributions.

Themes addressed by the case studies:

Leading Your Research Team

Leadership

  • The Post-Doc as the expert
  • Time for writing up research results
  • Managing fractional workers
  • Project running behind schedule
  • Project management
  • Co-operative Research?

Team Development

  • Apprenticeship & grant bid writing
  • Project management
  • Taking the easy option?
  • Making the choice
  • Co-operative Research?
Legal & Ethical Issues

Recruitment

  • Selection
  • Making the choice
  • The Vanishing Postgraduate

Selection

  • Selection
  • Making the choice
  • The Vanishing Postgraduate

Publication & Authorship

  • Authorship
  • Time for writing up research results
Developing Your Researchers

Staff Review/Appraisal

  • Career development & appraisal

Motivation

  • Authorship
  • Apprenticeship & grant bid writing
  • Matching the contract to the demands of post
  • Taking the easy option?
  • The Vanishing Postgraduate
  • Time for writing up research results

Managing Performance

  • Time for writing up research results
  • Project running behind schedule
  • The Vanishing Postgraduate
  • Managing fractional workers
  • Taking the easy option?
Your Research Career

What's expected of a PI?

  • The Post-Doc as the expert
  • Poacher turned gamekeeper

Strategic Planning

  • Authorship
  • Poacher turned gamekeeper?
Research Finances
  • Apprenticeship & grant bid writing
  • Matching the contract to the demands of post