Risk Log

ID	Description	Impact	Inherent Rating	Treatments	Residual Rating
1	Work or family commitments consume available research time	One or more deliverables not delivered by due date.	Extreme	Request extension of deliverable due date and adjust tasks to reduce further slippage.	Medium
2	Insufficient or poor quality of source materials	Deliverables do not meet expected outcomes or research is overly biased to one result thereby not meeting the objectives of the research.	High	Use secondary research sources to balance research findings. Maintain a broad scope of research.	Medium
3	Loss of information	One or more deliverables not delivered by due date.	High	Backup all project data to external physical storage and cloud hosted storage (OneDrive).	Medium
4	Inability to undertake research activities due to injury or illness	One or more deliverables not delivered by due date.	High	Request extension of deliverable due date and adjust tasks to reduce further slippage	Medium
5	Research topic is outside the skill of the researcher	Deliverables do not meet expected outcomes, or research inaccurate thereby not meeting the objectives of the research.	High	Identify knowledge gaps early and rectify through additional self-education activities.	Medium
6	Grammatical or formatting errors reduce readability of deliverables	Research does not meet requirements to achieve credible reviews.	Medium	Leverage tools available within document publishing software (Microsoft Word). Have third party undertake a review of final report and presentation.	Low