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21 Apr 2015: The Research Office will be closed for the Christmas period and will re-open on January 3rd.

22 Dec 2015: The individual meetings Mediation is carried out in neutral premises. Each party has a separate room to wait in and a further room where the meetings will be held. The first party arrives at 9.30am for their individual meeting, an hour is allocated

21 Apr 2015: Please note that following RCUK’s previous advice on the scaled-back requirement for final reports as a result of greater online reporting of outcomes, the cut-off date for submitting a final report has been put back from 1 December 2012 to 1

16 Jan 2015: The University has been notified that the assessment and marking boycott expected to commence on 16 January 2015 has been suspended from 16 to 30 January 2015. This suspension has been called in response to new proposals put forward by Universities

21 Apr 2015: Please see information below from the National Institutes of Health regarding grant administration processes that will now take effect following news of the lapse in appropriated funds.

21 Apr 2015: The European Union has imposed two rounds of sanctions on Russia since 31 July 2014. A guidance document is available on the Research Operations Office website. Principal Investigators should consider this guidance whenever planning to undertake

21 Apr 2015: As a follow up to the previous Bulletin on Friday 13 May which outlined changes to equipment funding, the Research Office will be giving a presentation at RGUG on Tuesday 24 May.  We are still awaiting further information from RCUK on

21 Apr 2015: As of 25 November 2010, the Research Office will no longer recharge DHL courier costs for EC grants to Departments or to the research grant. These costs will now be covered by the Research Office. If you have any queries, please contact your School

27 Feb 2015: The Specific Capacities Programme aims to enhance research and innovation capacities throughout Europe, and to ensure their optimal use.

21 Apr 2015: The ERC has issued a statement containing indicative dates for the next ERC calls for proposals in 2014. These dates are liable to change, as negotiations on the forthcoming Horizon 2020 programme are still ongoing.

10 Dec 2015: Several resources exist to guide Researchfish users and answer FAQs: See RCUK’s website for a research outcome overview Any PIs or their delegates can register for one of the weekly webinars hosted by Researchfish The Researchfish tutorial video

21 Apr 2015: A salary file update will be applied to X5 on Monday 5th August. This is to allow for the following salary changes: Changes to National Insurance contribution rates from 06 April 2013 Changes to Clinical Grades from April 2013 These changes will

5 Oct 2015: Definition The smokefree policy covers all types of burnt and smoked products including cigarettes, tobacco and non-tobacco cigarette products. This policy also applies to e-cigarettes and vapour pipes. Smoking Areas Smoking may be permitted on

30 Apr 2015: These have been the best attended events in People Matter Week over the past two years but there is no shortage of space or sheet-music at Great St Mary's, ... Book your place here This tour is fully booked. Dementia affects 850,000 people in the UK

9 Mar 2015: Land Economist wins international award for real estate research

6 May 2015: This year, the RGS’s medals and awards recognised eighteen different people for their outstanding contributions to geography.

2 Mar 2015: The Royal Society of Edinburgh welcomes 56 new Fellows.

27 May 2015: Dr Rachel Oliver from the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride has received a prestigious RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

21 Apr 2015: The Research Operations Office are offering X5 training and would like to invite departmental staff who are required to generate costings for their departments to attend one of these events.

6 Nov 2015: Dr John Rudge (Department of Earth Sciences), Dr Suchitra Sebastian (Department of Physics), and Dr Renaud Gagné (Faculty of Classics) have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in recognition of their outstanding research work.