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21 Apr 2015: Please be advised that pFACT will be down on Monday 25th February 2012 from 8–10am to allow updates to the pay scales to reflect the August 2012 inflationary increase and the changes to the CPS pension scheme.It is recommended that when logging

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

11 Feb 2022: The Principal Investigator Programme has been developed to help researchers with their responsibilities of managing a grant. Topics include ensuring that your project is properly costed knowing when to seek ethics approval protecting your research

4 Dec 2020: On Thursday 10th December, the updated NHS and new Cost Of Living Allowance date of Aug 20 will be imported into X5. This means that X5 will be unavailable between 7am and 8:30am. Once the new rates are in X5, to apply them to existing costings, go

16 Feb 2024: The University’s Large Grant Contribution Fund (LGCF) provides financial contributions for large collaborative research applications. There have been some recent updates to the criteria - in addition to applications led by Cambridge PIs,

24 Mar 2023: We have arranged for some online training sessions aimed at research support staff, finance staff and PIs who deal with expenditure on research grants. The sessions will be delivered by our internal auditors from Lees. Monday 27 March 9:30am -12noon

21 Apr 2015: As you may be aware, the University will be replacing pFACT with a new costing tool called X5. When X5 goes live during Michaelmas Term 2012, some of the data within pFACT will need to be migrated into the new costing tool.

2 Feb 2017: The annual submission period on Researchfish is 6 February 2017 to 4pm on 16 March 2017. Award holders of grants from RCUK (AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC, EPSRC, STFC), BHF, CRUK, NIHR & NC3Rs are required to submit their returns during this time.

13 Jan 2023: Following the UKRI FAP audit last year, we implemented new timesheet procedures for DI staff working less than 100% on a grant which included setting up SharePoint libraries for uploading timesheets. UKRI will be returning to the University of

12 Feb 2021: The annual submission period for UKRI, NIHR, CRUK, BHF and other funders is 1st February to 11th March 2021 during which time PIs can use their Researchfish account to submit a return on their research outputs. Due to the current COVID pandemic,