Ken Peach

Gebundenes Buch

Managing Science

Developing Your Research, Leadership and Management Skills

Beschreibung

This book introduces the reader to some of the techniques of leadership and management with a pragmatic approach to managing scientific research and scientists, engineers, and technicians that engage with it. The approach is conversational, with anecdotes and practical examples.

Autor

After 25 years as an experimental particle physicist at the University of Edinburgh and becoming head of the group in 1990, Ken Peach became Deputy Leader of the Particle Physics Experiments Division at CERN in 1996, and then Director of Particle Physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 1998. In 2005, he became Director of the newly-established John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, a joint venture between the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway University of London. While at Oxford, he co-created the Particle Therapy Cancer Research Institute. Following retirement from Oxford in 2011, he was appointed Dean of Faculty of Affairs in 2014 at the newly-created Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, retiring in 2016.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198796077
• ISBN-10: 0198796072
• Artikelnr.: 48685182