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14 Jul 2015: The sharing of reagents and scientific materials is widespread throughout the scientific community and is vital for the progress of research. Most organisations (including academic institutions) will only release materials if there is a Material

3 Nov 2023: All UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grants with part funded Directly Incurred (DI) staff need to have timesheets for the entire lifetime of the grant. Timesheet records have always been a requirement of the Terms and Conditions. As of 1 July 2022,

24 Jan 2020: The Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) are looking for volunteers to become data champions to promote good research data management and supporting researchers in areas such as data organisation, storage and sharing. Further details can be found

28 Mar 2024: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 333. Published on 28 March 2024. The initial release of Worktribe’s pre-award and contracts modules will no longer take place in the Research Office and School of

1 Mar 2024: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 331. Published on 1 March 2024. The deadline for PIs to submit their research outcomes into Researchfish isThursday 14th March at 4pmfor most major funders

7 May 2020: The Research Grant User Group meeting has been re-scheduled as a Live Event to take place on Thursday 21st May at 11am - 12pm. Further details will follow. In the meantime if you have any queries, please contact hannah.pawson@admin.cam.ac.uk

19 Jan 2024: Do you support a department or research group? Did you know that you can help manage your colleagues' Elements accounts on their behalf? We have created a new Supporting others with Elements video, showing how colleagues and administrators can be

28 Jan 2022: To allow researchers to apply for and receive US Federal funding, the University of Cambridge needs to be registered on the "System for Award Management" (SAM), an official website of the U.S. government. The University is required to renew its

21 Feb 2017: For financial audits, generally the following items will be looked at: Copies of invoices and expense claims Billing report and reconciliation with submitted claims Back up for personnel costs, including signed timesheet, Contract of Employment and

21 Feb 2017: For technical audits, generally the followings will be looked at: Degree of fulfilment of the project work plan and deliverables for the relevant period Continued relevance of the objectives Management procedures and methods of projects The

27 Feb 2015: The Framework Programme for Research and Technology (FP7) was the main research funding stream in the European Union from 2007 until 2013 with a €54 billion budget. Recipients of EC FP7 funds are required to manage the administration of their fund

7 Oct 2022: UKRI Terms & Conditions require that all timesheets must be signed by both the 'Employee' and by the 'Approver' within 2 months of the end of the timesheet period. From 1st July 2022, monthly timesheets of part funded DI staff need to be uploaded

25 Jun 2015: Once you have contacted the Contracts Manager we will send an introductory email to open the contract negotiation dialogue. The following will also happen ROO will assign an "RG number" for the project, if it does not already have one.

31 Jul 2020: The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has launched an open consultation to inform their Review of the PhD in the Social Sciences.

6 Aug 2021: The UKRI Funding Assurance Programme (FAP) provides assurance that public funds destined for research are properly safeguarded and used for the purposes intended. We are expecting a UKRI audit to be undertaken remotely during the Michaelmas Term 2021

11 Sep 2020: X5 - the costing and pricing tool for research projects is due to be upgraded in early October. The upgrade will include improvements to the interface, fixes to known bugs and enable us to remain supported by the supplier. For the upgrade to take

8 Sep 2023: The European Research Council (ERC) is hosting a webinar on 20th September at 11:15am for potential applicants to learn more about the novelties of the ERC Work Programme for 2024. The webinar can be accessed directly on the ERC website and no prior

2 Dec 2022: From July 2022, there has been a new mechanism for timesheets so that we can comply with audit requirements on UKRI and Innovate funding. Since then we have gathered feedback from users and made improvements to the documentation and processes.

6 Aug 2021: A new Sharepoint site, Supporting Research at Cambridge has been set up to provide guidance, information and support to the academic and administrative community in the management of research grants. On the site you can find training materials and

28 Mar 2024: In response to Departmental feedback, we have simplified our guidance regarding the recording requirements of staff time for Horizon Europe grants and updated the Time Declaration Form.