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8 Jul 2022: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting will take place as a live event on Thursday 14th July at 11:15am. The agenda will include presentations on Sustainable Business Travel Guidelines, timesheet requirements for UKRI funding and updates

28 Jan 2022: Any member of the University of Cambridge who is interested in research data management (RDM) who would like to become a local contact on RDM can apply to become a Data Champion. Researchers, postgraduate students, librarians, IT managers, data

7 Feb 2022: The programme tackles and offers solutions for some of our most pressing issues, from the multiple crises in politics, health and climate change to global economics and human rights.

2 Dec 2022: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 5pm on Friday 23rd December 2022 and will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2023. Therefore, please be aware of the following deadlines and ensure that your researchers

25 Feb 2022: The next RGUG meeting will take place as a live event on Tuesday 26th April 2022 at 11:15am. Details will be circulated nearer the time. Slides and recording of the previous RGUG meeting on 8th February are available on the RGUG web page. For

6 May 2022: As part of the University’s commitment to carbon reduction, the Sustainability Team have consulted with stakeholders from across the University to produced new guidelines on sustainable business travel. The purpose of the guidelines, which were

25 Mar 2022: Grant application deadlines are changing from 1st April 2022. The current 7 working day deadline for the Standard Application Process is being replaced with a 5 working day deadline. In summary this means - Departments are required to give ROO a

23 Feb 2022: issues, from the multiple crises in politics, health and climate change to global economics and human rights.

24 Jun 2022: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are making a permanent change regarding flexible start dates for responsive mode grants. This allows a period of up to six months from the announced start date to commence grant activity on responsive mode grants.

18 Nov 2022: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting will take place on Tuesday 22nd November at 11:15am. The agenda will include an overview of updated documents and processes regarding the recently introduced timesheet requirements, UKRI underwrite

11 Mar 2022: The deadline for PIs to submit their research outcomes into Researchfish is Thursday 17th March at 4pm for most major funders including UKRI, CRUK, BHF and NIHR. Reporting outcomes are a requirement of accepting an award and PIs who do not comply

19 Aug 2022: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting will take place on Thursday 29th September at 11:15am. Further details about the meeting will follow nearer the time.

28 Jan 2022: The next RGUG meeting will take place as a live event on Tuesday 8th February at 11:15am. Please use this link to join the meeting. The agenda will include a presentation on grant application deadlines and updates on EU matters. Slides and recording

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

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

11 Mar 2022: UKRI guarantee funding scheme for the first wave of successful applicants to Horizon Europe is open for applications for EIC and EIT-KICs. UK-based organisations who are partners on successful applications to EIC 2021 calls can apply for a UKRI grant

20 Sep 2022: Through the innovative Banking on Butterflies project, they are using a robust field experimental design to test whether creating new earthwork banks on existing nature reserves can help butterflies, and other

12 Apr 2022: There are also economic advantages – research has better value for money if all related outputs are shared so that they can be built upon by future research.

25 Feb 2022: The Apprenticeship Levy is a tax on salary bills introduced in 2017. There are many funders who deem the Apprenticeship Levy cost ineligible when costing a project; this includes CRUK, Royal Society, Leverhulme, BHF and the BA. For applications to

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