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3 Jul 2015: CHRIS/75a CHRIS/75b CHRIS/75c Letter A Letter B Letter C Letter D Letter E

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 ... This process will now be

30 Oct 2015: maternity / paternity leave. additional workload. unexpected vacancies. The team is flexible; whether it's half a day a week or five days a week we aim to accommodate department requirements. ... Please submit the enquiry form at the link below. This

21 Apr 2015: The new version of the Marie Curie Financial Guidelines includes an important change which affects all Form Cs that are submitted from July 2011 onwards.Under the new revised guidelines, categories D and E (if applicable) should now be reported as a

6 Feb 2015: CIMA - The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants CIMA is the world's largest and leading professional body of management accountants with 203,000 members and students in 173 countries.

16 Apr 2015: We have a set of model and template agreements that contain the University's preferred terms for specific types of research collaborations.

21 Apr 2015: A final reminder that The Wellcome Trust will be visiting the University on July 12th. Dr Michael Dunn will give a presentation about Funding Opportunities and strategic initiatives at the Wellcome Trust. PIs and Administrators are invited to at

21 Apr 2015: An additional workshop aimed at assisting Departmental Administrators prepare for the RCUK Assurance visit, taking place from 14 - 16 November 2012, will take place on Friday 12 October 2012 at 2pmat Mill Lane lecture theatre, room 6. We hope that

10 Aug 2015: For postgraduate admissions guidance for College staff please go to the PAO's Moodle site. ... The University also uses such information to prepare statistical analyses about postgraduate destinations.

10 Aug 2015: 3.2.3 Consideration should be given to the consultation requirements applicable to the particular organisational change. ... 90 days. 3.2.4 The legal requirement to conduct collective consultation applies if it is proposed that 20 or more employees are

19 Jan 2015: From 6 April 2013 form P38(S) was withdrawn from use. From this date students are treated in the same way as all other employees for Income tax and National Insurance contributions purposes. A Starter Checklist form should be completed in place of

19 Aug 2015: 1. Introduction 1.1 This Guidance supports staff and institutions in implementing the Organisational Change Policy and provides information on good practice. It should be read in conjunction with: The Organisational Change Policy Pay Protection

29 Jun 2015: implementation of Open Access policies in response to the requirements of our researchers and research sponsors.

19 May 2015: Any agreement to a change in working arrangements (e.g. to work part time) will be considered on the basis of the operational requirements of the department.

3 Jul 2015: Employees may be entitled to Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) if: their baby is due on or after 5 April 2015 they adopt a child on or after 5 April 2015 The following individuals may be entitled to Shared Parental

4 Jun 2015: It is very important that all ESRC beneficiaries are aware of the research data sharing requirements outlined in the policy.

21 Apr 2015: As mentioned at the RGUG, demonstrations of the new ‘Research Systems Store’ are being held at 16 Mill Lane on the following dates:Monday 9th December – 14:00 to 15:00Thursday 12th December – 11:00 to 12:00To reserve a place, please email

21 Apr 2015: For 1st year postgraduate students the conditional offer letter you receive once you have been made an offer details your cost of attendance. ... Depending on the requirement, more evidence may be requested so that the professional judgement can be

6 Aug 2015: The Research Operations Office is again offering X5 training and would like to invite departmental staff, both academic and administrative, who are required to generate costings for themselves or for their departments, to attend one of these events.

21 Apr 2015: Applicants and grant holders of the Wellcome Trust should be aware of the following funding updates: Funding for enhancements is now available. It is designed to provide additional funding for existing grant holders to explore important new

21 Apr 2015: This is an advance notice that the University, in line with fEC guidelines, has to implement revised full economic cost rates from 1 February each year. More information regarding these changes will be available in the next Bulletin. Please note

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

21 Apr 2015: Further to the note in Research Office bulletin 88 this is a reminder that access to pFACT will be removed after 31st July 2014. Please ensure that any reports to which you need access are printed and/or saved before 31st July 2014 so that you have

21 Apr 2015: Following a number of requests for the RCUK Assurance presentation to be made available electronically, we are very pleased to attach a link to the presentation here. RCUK Assurance Workshop Please do contact Charles

23 Jun 2015: The Research Grants User Group (RGUG) is a forum led by the Research Operations Office where research grant administration issues and developments are discussed. The next RGUG meeting will take place on Tuesday 16 June at 9.30am in Mill Lane Lecture

25 Jun 2015: The amount of time to put in place a signed contract can vary considerably depending upon a number of factors such as the complexity of the project the number of parties involved how speedily the other party/ies respond to correspondence the

22 Jan 2015: It will be a requirement that mobile phones and electronic devises are signed into the Playscheme on arrival and 3G or 4G internet services must be disabled.

21 Apr 2015: 1. Final reporting. With the advent of reporting research outcomes through online systems, requirements for final reports have been reduced. ... 3. Funding for publication costs. From April 2013, RCUK will be providing a block grant to the University to

21 Apr 2015: In line with fEC guidelines, the University has to implement revised full economic cost rates from February each year. Therefore, please be advised that the University fEC rates will change on 2 February 2015. X5 will not be available on Monday 2

21 Apr 2015: Currently it is a requirement to keep timesheets for EC FP 7 Awards and NIH Awards (where a person is not charged 100% to the grant). ... As part of the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) Update no.3 issued by RCUK, from 1 December 2010 it will be a

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

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: 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.

6 Feb 2015: There are a number of different reporting tools currently available to enable staff to extract and analyse financial information from UFS UFS Cognos Excel Tableau UFS Standard reports and online enquiries run directly within UFS that generally

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

8 Jul 2015: our Undergraduate Prospectus and on our website at: www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/applying/entrance-requirements. ... For our Arts and Social Sciences courses there is often more flexibility in requirements.

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: Dr Ian Viney, Head of Strategic Evaluation from the MRC visited Cambridge on Wednesday 26 January to talk about the MRC's second annual output data gathering survey e-Val and how the data gathered will impact on the future availability of f

21 Apr 2015: In light of the new foreign exchange policy, it has been agreed that the inflation index used within pFACT for calculating costs on applications to overseas funders will be reduced to 3.5% with effect from 1st October 2010.

21 Apr 2015: We have now received the final report from RCUK assurance in relation to their visit in November 2012 and include their findings below. “The visit has provided Substantial Assurance (1 rated) to the Research Councils regarding the review of

4 Jun 2015: Each month X5 is updated with a default exchange rate for Euros, based on the average of the rates for the previous month. Recent substantial increases in the exchange rate between submission of the application and notification of award has resulted

21 Apr 2015: The annual MRC outputs data gathering exercise will begin on 1 October. MRC requires all researchers that have held MRC funding since 2006 to annually update and submit feedback on the results of MRC funded research. The system used for this is

16 Oct 2015: You’re trying to incorporate funders’ requirements, university policies, and ensure that it’s underpinned by sound business practice – but doing so where there is unreliable broadband, and where none of

16 Apr 2015: Collaborators and funders sometimes supply their own contract, which will contain those terms most beneficial to that party but may also contain terms detrimental to the researcher or omit terms that are necessary to the University.

21 Apr 2015: After an extensive tender process CG LEES Accountants have been appointed to conduct audits on EC awards.  They have a wealth of experience with regards grant auditing and also have agreed to ensure that those doing the fieldwork will be qualified

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: Addgene http://www.addgene.org is a non-profit plasmid repository based in Massachusetts, USA and is dedicated to helping scientists share plasmids.  The organisation helps academic laboratories to store, archive and distribute plasmids to

20 Aug 2015: Some users of the Online Contracts Submission for MTAs and CDA have encountered difficulties when uploading supporting documentation. Affected users are presented with an error message regarding a file name that is too long. If you see this message

3 Jul 2015: Please click here to see some examples.

21 Apr 2015: Following on from last year’s successful sign up to ARMA (Association of Research Managers and Administrators in the UK), the Research Office would like to invite departmental staff with a direct responsibility for research grant administration