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29 Mar 2019: Minutes from the Research Grants User Group Meeting on 26th February are now available on the ROO website. The next meeting will be Thursday 2 May 2019 2pm - 3.30pm Norwich Auditorium, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, West Cambridge

22 Nov 2019: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 233. Published on 22 November 2019. The following updated pay scales with an effective date (COLA date) of 01/04/2019 were uploaded into X5 on Tuesday 19. th.

5 Jul 2019: The Research Operations Office Training Strategy (ROOTS Tier 2) consists of three morning sessions offering a mix of skills development and knowledge transfer. Topics will cover applying & managing grants, understanding contracts and audit

6 Dec 2019: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 234. Published on 6 December 2019. An Organisational Spend Report is submitted quarterly to the Wellcome Trust (WT) by the Research Operations Office (ROO) for the

8 Feb 2019: In the case of a no deal Brexit, the UK government has committed to underwrite the funds of all active EU grants and bids submitted until exit day. Information and updates on the underwrite can be found here. Further guidance is still to be published

8 Mar 2019: When costing grant applications to access shared equipment through the Henry Royce Institute, the EPSRC have advised that Royce equipment access costs must be entered into X5 as "Non-staff – Other Directly Incurred - OTHER COSTS – Consumables

6 Dec 2019: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 1pm on Tuesday 24th December 2019 and will re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2020.

21 Jun 2019: The Research Grants User Group Meeting is led by the Research Office and is a forum where research contract and grant administration topics can be discussed. The next meeting will take place as follows Thursday 27th June 2019 10am – 11:30am Large

18 Jan 2019: The Contract Status Portal is due to be retired on 31st January 2019 as its content has now been integrated into the Research Dashboard. The dashboard offers Researchers and Administrators an overview of their contracts, applications and grants

11 Oct 2019: In the case of a no deal Brexit, the UK government has committed to underwrite the funds of all active EU grants and bids submitted until exit day. Information and updates on the underwrite can be found here. Further guidance is still to be published