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18 Mar 2020: The Diversifying Assessment Forum was held on Friday 13 March 2020. The forum was opened by the Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, Professor Graham Virgo, and chaired by Professor Chris Young, Chair of the Examination and Assessment Committee.

28 May 2020: CHRIS users are reminded to start using their CHRIS Electric profile before 31 May 2020 to ensure continued access to the system after this date. For further information: https://www.hrsystems.admin.cam.ac.uk/chris-electric

17 Jul 2020: The next meeting of the Research Grants User Group (RGUG) will take place as a Live Meeting on Tuesday 28th July at 11:15am. Agenda topics will include Managing Funding on EU Awards, Furlough of Staff on Research Grants and UKRI’s COVID-19 Grant

26 May 2020: Cambridge has long been a world-leading centre for conservation science – perhaps epitomised by the David Attenborough Building next to the Museum of Zoology – and in recent years the University of Cambridge has turned its attention to the

14 Aug 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 252. Published on 14 August 2020. The X5 Upgrade project team is looking for volunteers to do User Acceptance Testing which is scheduled to take place from 1st -

12 Nov 2020: We are currently seeking students to contribute to two different strategic priority projects. The first is the Access & Participation Plan: Participatory Action Research Project, for which we are seeking paid student co-researchers.

6 Nov 2020: X5 - the costing and pricing tool for research projects is due to be upgraded. Technical issues have now been resolved and the new date for the upgrade is Tuesday 24th November 2020. The upgrade will include improvements to the interface, fixes to

19 Mar 2020: The University of Cambridge has implemented its Coronavirus contingency plan and the Research Office has closed its premises. Staff who are able to work remotely will do so, however the level of service that we can provide during this period will be

18 Dec 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 261. Published on 18 December 2020. An Organisational Spend Report (OSR) is submitted quarterly to the Wellcome Trust (WT) by the Research Operations Office (ROO)

6 Nov 2020: The way the Wellcome Trust funds its research is changing to support its new vision and strategy. Their new vision is to support science to solve three worldwide health challenges: infectious diseases, global heating and mental health.

11 Sep 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 254. Published on 11 September 2020. This is a reminder that as per the Terms & Conditions of Horizon 2020, reporting staff costs to the EC requires that only the

3 Jul 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 249. Published on 3 July 2020. As research funders continue to review their guidance for grant holders and applicants, the Research Operations Office has updated

25 Sep 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 255. Published on 25 September 2020. Following this UKRI announcement, updated Terms and Conditions requiring organisations to be compliant with the new UKRI

19 Mar 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 241. Published on 19 March 2020. The University of Cambridge has implemented its Coronavirus contingency plan and the Research Office has closed its premises. Staff

31 Jul 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 251. Published on 31 July 2020. As research funders continue to review their guidance for grant holders and applicants, the Research Operations Office has updated

17 Jul 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 250. Published on 17 July 2020. The application process for UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) COVID-19 open call will change on 31st July 2020. After this date,

7 Jan 2020: Round 15 of the Returning Carers Scheme is now open for applications for the spending period 1 August 2020 to 31 January 2021. The closing date for applications is Friday 14 February 2020. Further information is available on the Returning Carers

22 Oct 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 257. Published on 22 October 2020. On Thursday 22nd October, new salary files were uploaded into X5 to rectify an error in the NI rates in the used previous files.

9 Oct 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 256. Published on 9 October 2020. Due to technical difficulties during implementation, the upgrade of X5 which was scheduled to take place on Thursday 8. th.

4 Sep 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 253. Published on 4 September 2020. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded a COVID-19 Grant Extension Allocation (CoA) to UK organisations to support costed