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21 Apr 2015: The BBSRC have announced several changes to their processes and procedures.

21 Apr 2015: The Trust has published revised standard Grant Conditions for Biomedical Science awards.

19 Mar 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue: 132. Published on 19 March 2015. The Wellcome Trust have announced that they will be launching their new grants management system in May 2015. This will replace

21 Apr 2015: There has been a marked increase in calls where sponsors request a support letter signed by the Pro-Vice Chancellor Research to be submitted with the application for funding. In order to allow sufficient time for the review and signing of letters,

21 Apr 2015: Amy Williams, European Advisor for the UK Research Office (UKRO) in Brussels gave two presentations in Cambridge on Thursday 31 March 2011 about the European Research Council (ERC) and the Common Strategic Framework for Research &

12 Nov 2015: Content mining technologies hold great potential for maximising scientific discovery and the reuse of research through automatically searching, indexing and analysing the scientific literature. This means systematic reviews and large scale

21 Apr 2015: Please be advised that pFACT will be down on Monday 9 May 2011 from 08:00 to 10:00.

21 Apr 2015: As part of a drive by RCUK to increase efficiency and effectiveness across research management, there is now a requirement on the University to make greater use of existing equipment and to demonstrate that it is shared between Departments and/or

21 Apr 2015: Adjustments have been made to the mappings for the overlapping professorial spine points in X5. Therefore the new bandings will be as follows for the spine points: Spine Points Band 75 – 76 PRF122 81 – 82 PRF123 87 – 88 PRF124 Any new costings

21 Apr 2015: In line with the TSB's conditions and guidance, it is important to note that costs are deemed eligible and can be claimed only if they are incurred and paid during the start and end dates of the project and meet the eligibility criteria as per the

21 Apr 2015: An internal audit into research transaction recording highlighted that current training may not adequately address the entering of invoice data into CUFS especially in relation to the narrative to support the cost. As a result Finance Training have

21 Apr 2015: As you are likely aware, the USA was required by law from 1 March 2013, to issue a sequestration order cancelling approximately $85 billion in budgetary resources across the Federal Government for the remainder of the Federal fiscal year (2013).

4 Jun 2015: On 23rd April 2015 the Research Policy Committee approved the new University of Cambridge Research Data Management Policy Framework: http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/university-policy. All researchers and research students should familiarise themselves

4 Aug 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 138. Published on 4 August 2015. Are you considering applying for a Wellcome Trust grant? As of 1 August 2015 all researchers submitting a grant application to the

21 Apr 2015: The Research Operations Office is embarking on a new round of our ROOTS (Research Operations Office Training Strategy) Tier 2 (2015) Research Administrators Programme.We invite submissions from all staff who play an active role in the Grants

10 Dec 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 149. Published on 10 December 2015. 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers. Nature’s ‘Scientific Data’ journal event. 2. RELEVANT TO: Research students.

21 Apr 2015: The new schemes for the Wellcome Trust launch on 1 October 2010 when their online application system 'eGrants', will be available for application submissions.

2 Oct 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 142. Published on 2 October 2015. The Research Operations Office is embarking on a new round of our ROOTS (Research Operations Office Training Strategy) Tier 2 (2016

21 Apr 2015: Proof is required of both the purchase of travel and its use. Best practice would be to include a log of travel requests and authorisation (to satisfy the requirement that the travel has been authorised as necessary for the requirements of the grant)

6 Feb 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue: 130. Published on 6 February 2015. The European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant scheme is aimed at senior academics from any discipline and is judged on