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21 Apr 2015: Applicants for Wellcome Trust awards should be aware that the Trust's inflation allowance has been revised to 1.6 per cent per year effective from 1 April 2013. Full details can be found at:http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Managing-a-grant/Finance-and-

21 Apr 2015: Following the launch of the new Wellcome Trust schemes and the first round deadline in November 2010, the Research Office would like to update you regarding progress on the current round of applications and information on future submissions. First

13 Jan 2015: The group led by Dr Flavio Comim will read and discuss the book 'Political Emotions' by Prof. Martha Nussbaum (Harvard University Press; 1 edition 2013).

21 Apr 2015: Open Access Policy: The Wellcome Trust has announced that it will be strengthening the manner in which it enforces its open access policy with immediate effect. Failure to comply with the policy could result in final grant payments being withheld

21 Apr 2015: As stated in previous Research Office bulletins, this is a reminder that pFACT will not be available after 31st July 2014. Please ensure that any reports that you need are printed and/or saved locally before 31st July 2014. If you need a copy of the

21 Apr 2015: The final briefing session to help Departments become familiar with X5 is scheduled for next week. This will be a 30 minute overview of X5 with an opportunity for Q&A. There is no need to book a place, just turn up at the time of your choice.

21 Apr 2015: The Researchfish Team will be coming to the University to demonstrate Researchfish and take questions and answers from Researchers.Researchfish is an online facility that enables research funders to track the impacts of their investments, and

21 Apr 2015: In line with fEC guidelines, the University has to implement revised full economic cost rates from February each year.

14 Jul 2015: Dissemination of information is a vital part of academic research, nevertheless when parties are discussing the possibility of a collaboration, it is often necessary to protect information being exchanged so that it is held in confidence and not

21 Apr 2015: The ERC has introduced a new pilot scheme, called Synergy Grants (SyG) in the 2012 ERC Work Programme. This call will be published on 25 October 2011 with a single deadline of 25 January 2012. The ERC Synergy Grants are aimed at outstanding

21 Apr 2015: The Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting was held on Thursday 24 July and the presentations are available on the ROO websitehttp://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/research/rgug/default.aspx

21 Apr 2015: A new Research Pricing and Costing Tool is currently being developed to replace pFACT. The system, which is currently called X5, is now in the second phase of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and members of the research community are needed to test

12 Nov 2015: There are several places left on our introductory workshop to research data management. The workshop will cover the following aspects of research data management: Data storage and backup; Data organisation; Strategies for file exchange with

16 Apr 2015: For work conducted by the University that does not fall within the remit of 'research', contracts may be required that do not come under the responsibility of the Research Operations Office.

21 Apr 2015: Research Councils UK (RCUK) have recently advised that following discussions between themselves and Research Organisations, they have decided that the requirement for reporting overspends on grants will no longer be enforced as a condition of their

21 Apr 2015: X5 continues to be rolled out across the University with Departmental Administrators currently receiving training. By 7 May all pFACT users will have received their X5 log in. To help Departments become familiar with X5, several briefing sessions

21 Apr 2015: The BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) will be visiting Cambridge to give a presentation on Pathways to Impact. The talk will be relevant to anyone who has an interest in BBSRC research grants including

21 Apr 2015: NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) will be visiting Cambridge to give a presentation on Pathways to Impact. This will include: What is impact? Pathways to Impact and the grant application form Assessing Pathways to Impact Knowledge Exchange

10 Dec 2015: Part III. (optional). BA. MSci. (optional). Economics. Law. Part IA. Part IB.

21 Apr 2015: The minutes and presentations from the RGUG (Research Grants User Group) which took place on Tuesday 28 September are now available on the Research Office website at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/research/rgug/default.aspx. The next meeting