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21 Apr 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. News from Finance: Cognos PI Report now available.

21 Apr 2015: Due to the British Heart Foundation updating their Student Maintenance rates with effect from 1 October 2010, pFACT is being updated to reflect this change. The new rates will be added to pFACT on Monday 8 November 2010 between 8:00 am and 10:00 am

16 Apr 2015: A key part of our role is to conduct risk assessments to mitigate any possible risks involved in conducting the research and in agreeing specific contractual provisions. Risk Assessment includes What is the value/financial benefit? What is the

21 Apr 2015: In a recent letter to Oxford University, Research Council UK (RCUK) clarified their position relating to sanctions for late submission of final reports.  Please note the following: With RCUK's move to the Shared Services Centre, sanctions are ap

21 Apr 2015: The new online searchable database of research facilities and equipment is now available to all members of the University of Cambridge. For more information about the Equipment Project and the Research Facilities and Equipment Database please visit

21 Apr 2015: Recent audits have highlighted a number of instances where government taxes have been charged to these awards.  It is important to remember that for these awards no government taxes (either local or international) are allowed to be charged.  Spe

21 Apr 2015: All BBSRC, AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC and NERC funded  PIs are reminded that they are required to submit information about outputs from their grants through the ROS web portal which can be accessed here https://logon.rcuk.ac.uk/ using JeS login details.

21 Apr 2015: Research Councils (notably the EPSRC) are currently providing notifications of successful awards to PIs only, with a request that the PI confirm the 50% matched funding on their equipment budget within a 3 week deadline.  Although it is asked that

21 Apr 2015: The Research Council UK minimum doctoral stipend for 2011/12 has been frozen for 2010/11 at £13,590 per annum, see Research Council letter http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/researchcareers/Feesandstipends2011-12letter.pdf. The Research Office

25 Jun 2015: Please click on the link below to initiate your on-line request. https://researchportal.admin.cam.ac.uk/Raven/submissions/MTAIn.aspx

25 Jun 2015: Please click on the link below to initiate your on-line request. https://researchportal.admin.cam.ac.uk/Raven/submissions/MTAOut.aspx

21 Apr 2015: The Research Operations Office is planning its 2014 programme for Research Administrators which consists of 6 morning modules from Feb – July 2014. Delegates will gain a greater understanding of how grants administration is carried out through a

21 Apr 2015: When making an application to the Wellcome Trust where the pay increase is not known, they have allowed applicants to add 1% inflation to the salary costs of year 1 only. This is because the Wellcome Trust automatically compound inflate commencing

21 Apr 2015: As discussed at this week’s RGUG, different institutions are taking different approaches to managing top slices pro-rated to subcontractor budgets funded by Research Council grants prompting us to review our own approach.  As a result, instead

15 Oct 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 144. Published on 15 October 2015. RCUK will conduct a Funding Assurance Programme (FAP) visit from Monday the 23. rd. to Wednesday the 25. th. November 2015. The

12 Nov 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 147. Published on 12 November 2015. 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers. ContentMine Workshop: mining for the life sciences. OpenCon Cambridge. New RCUK

21 Apr 2015: RGUG is a forum led by the Research Operations Office where research grant administration issues and developments are discussed. The next RGUG meeting will take place on Thursday 11 December 9:30am - 11:00am in Room 4, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms and is

21 Apr 2015: The Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) and Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DHF) schemes aim to provide funding to outstanding scientists who have the potential to become leaders in their chosen field. They have recently

21 Apr 2015: Katie Price, European Advisor for the UK Research Office (UKRO) Brussels will be visiting Cambridge and giving two presentations on Thursday 14 November 2013 in Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. She will be talking about Horizon 2020 the EUs new programme

21 Apr 2015: On the 24th October both Cambridge and Oxford Universities agreed that X5 core functionality was covered to an acceptable level and that individual University configuration of the software could now commence.The Cambridge X5 Project Team is now