Supporting Your Research Project Management with AI Assistants
- Research Academy Ruhr
- Leadership, Supervision & Management Competencies
- Führungs-, Betreuungs- & Managementkompetenzen
- For Postdocs
- Für Postdocs
- Workshop
AI assistants can be a structured planning partner — helping you step back, see your project from the outside, and catch what's easy to miss from inside your own week-to-week work. This session focuses on turning that into concrete planning practice: assessing priorities with an additional more objective perspective, planning realistic and literature-based timelines, reading your stakeholder landscape, tracking how a project is actually going, and preparing for what could go wrong before it does.
In this workshop:
- Prioritizing and decision-making — using an AI assistant as a structured external opinion that sharpens your own judgment on what matters most
- Realistic timing and duration planning for tasks and projects
- Stakeholder analysis — mapping who needs to be informed and who has influence
- Key performance indicators — tracking how a project is actually going (controlling)
- Risk analysis and contingency planning — surfacing what could go wrong while there's still time to prepare
Participants leave with a concrete set of planning templates and a repeatable practice: routinely stepping outside their own view of a project and using the AI assistant as an objectifying, external sounding board. What changes afterward is how well-founded the planning behind the work becomes — priorities tested against a second perspective, risks named early, and unknown unknowns surfaced while there's still time to act on them.
Please note: Basics of working with AI assistants and will not be covered in this workshop. For this please participate in the workshop “AI Assistants Can Increase the Quality of Your Research: A Foundations Workshop”.
Date: Thu, 18 February 2027, 13:30–17:00 h + Fri, 19 February 2027, 09:00–12:30 h
Location: online via Zoom
Target group: Postdocs from all research fields of the UA Ruhr Universities (max. 25 participants)
Trainer: PD Dr. Daniel Mertens
Registration deadline: 04 February 2027
Contact for organizational Questions: event@rs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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