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16 Sep 2020: The Professional Services Recognition Scheme ecognises, highlights and celebrates the very best work across all professional services, irrespective of whether those staff are within a School, department, faculty or non-School institution. The scheme

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.

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

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 -

25 Sep 2020: Following this UKRI announcement, updated Terms and Conditions requiring organisations to be compliant with the new UKRI Preventing Harm Safeguarding in Research and Innovation policy will be applied to new UKRI grants from March/April 2021. This

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

9 Oct 2020: Throughout the summer and as we move into the autumn, the future of the University's approach to procurement and purchasing has evolved.

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

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.

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)

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

24 Apr 2020: The University acknowledges that these are exceptional circumstances and is committed to putting measures in place to ensure that no employee is financially disadvantaged. The Employee Welfare Loan Scheme is available to support eligible staff

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

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

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

15 Apr 2020: Research Councils have published a list of calls with their original deadlines and extensions for April and May https://www.ukri.org/files/funding/calls-april-may/

6 Mar 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 240. Published on 6 March 2020. The deadline for PIs to submit their research outcomes into Researchfish is Thursday 12th March at 4pm for the following major

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,

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

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.