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21 Apr 2015: NIH A-133 audit Findings The recent audit findings highlighted two areas for improvement.  It is important that the destination and reason for travel are included on the invoice/purchase order or travel claim. There were instances where travel h

25 Jun 2015: The earlier the Contracts Manager is involved in the process the greater the likelihood of putting in place an agreement with suitable terms for both parties. The University has its own set of standard agreements that cover a range of different

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: There are 3 new tutorials to help you use X5 on the following topics: Copying a costing Costing Tabs External partner leads These videos are available on the X5 website http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/research/applying/x5/default.aspx  

21 Apr 2015: The ability to create an award costing in X5 at Department Administrator and Principal Investigator level has been removed, as this costing type should only be used at Research Office level. If you need to create an award costing for an award not

4 Jun 2015: The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) changed its research data policy in March 2015.

6 Aug 2015: The Research Policy Committee have approved guidelines on authorship designed to encourage good practice in this area. The guidelines are available on the University’s Research Integrity webpages

21 Apr 2015: RCUK PhD stipends have been updated (see http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2014news/Pages/070114.aspx). National Minimum Doctoral Stipend for 2014/15 is £13,863 Research Councils UK Indicative Fee Level for 2014/15 is £3,996 The rates been updated

24 Jul 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: As part of the Research Council’s commitment to moving to the Shared Services Centre, the MRC will be transferring to the RCUK joint electronic system (JeS) at the end of March. All applications to the MRC with a deadline before the end of March