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31 Jul 2014: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are one of the longest standing schemes available to academics for industry collaboration. This scheme sponsors partnerships between academics and companies to solve problems identified by the partner

21 Apr 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Full Economic Costing and Income Allocation Policy briefing sessions.

14 Jan 2022: Following published guidance from the Office for Students, both the Annual Financial Return and the TRAC Return submissions for 2020-21 have been given an extension until the end of March. Therefore, the University’s fEC rates and the

4 Jun 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Full Economic Costing and Income Allocation Policy briefing session – 17 July.

19 Jun 2024: A guide for PIs who are preparing a grant funding application alongside their Academic Department.

2 Feb 2024: The annual submission period for UKRI, NIHR, CRUK, BHF, WT and other funders is 5th February to 14th March 2024 during which time PIs should use their Researchfish account to submit a return on their research outputs. Award holders will have

16 Dec 2022: New updates have been introduced to the UKRI Guarantee Guidance dated 5th December 2022. The scope of the guarantee is still the same: to guarantee funding for all eligible, successful applicants to Horizon Europe calls with final submission

16 Dec 2022: Thank you all for your support and engagement with the new timesheet process. UKRI have given us positive feedback on the work that we have all been doing to address the audit findings. Please continue to upload into your all historic timesheets

15 Mar 2024: The European Commission is organising online infodays on 25th - 26th April 2024 about the new topics in the EU Missions Work Programme. This includes Adaptation to Climate Change Mission Cancer Mission 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart cities by 2030

15 Apr 2020: UKRI-funded PhD students whose studies have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and who are in their final year will receive an extension to their research of up to six months so they will be able to complete their studies. Further details are

28 Jan 2022: Further to our previous announcement in this bulletin regarding the first tranche of successful applications under the Horizon Europe funding programme, we are continuing the work with, Departments, PIs, Project Co-ordinators and UKRI to facilitate

12 Jul 2024: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) will take place as a Teams meeting on Thursday 18th July at 11:15am. The agenda will include updates about Worktribe, UKRI’s The Funding Service and the National Security Act. Thursday 18th July 2024

25 Mar 2022: Please be advised that X5 has been updated with the new fEC rates for 2022, which this year are applicable from 9th March 2022. (The University’s TRAC Return was successfully submitted to the Office for Students on the 8th March 2022). The

12 Feb 2021: As part of the X5 Upgrade project, a SharePoint site was launched that contains the new X5 User Guide. This can also be accessed directly from the X5 tool by clicking on any of the "question mark" icons within the system.

14 Jun 2024: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 337. Published on 14 June 2024. The Research Operations Office EU Team is organising a European Innovation Council (EIC) Information Event for University of

19 Jun 2020: Videos have been developed to assist with creating a simple costing in X5 and are located in Stream. Additional support is also available in the following format - Mini User Guides Grants Guidance for Departments FAQs

24 Apr 2020: The single audit report for federal grants for Financial Year 17/18 is now finalised and available from the ROO website.

19 Jan 2024: Please be advised that changes to the USS pension rate have been updated in X5, from 21.6% to 14.5% with an effective date of 1st January 2024, as per USS guidelines. For existing costings in X5, the appropriate staff costing lines will have to be re

5 Aug 2022: Horizon Results Booster (HRB) is an initiative of the European Commission which aims to support projects funded by the EU Framework Programme (FP) to help innovations go to market and maximise their impact.

21 May 2021: Academics and research support staff can find details of the ERC Advanced Grant Call on the ROO website including the recording and slides from the recent UKRO information webinar series. The ERC Advanced Grant call is aimed at established research