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8 Mar 2019: When costing grant applications to access shared equipment through the Henry Royce Institute, the EPSRC have advised that Royce equipment access costs must be entered into X5 as "Non-staff – Other Directly Incurred - OTHER COSTS – Consumables

21 Jun 2019: The Research Grants User Group Meeting is led by the Research Office and is a forum where research contract and grant administration topics can be discussed. The next meeting will take place as follows Thursday 27th June 2019 10am – 11:30am Large

8 Feb 2019: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 218. Published on 8 February 2019. Please be advised that X5 has been updated with the new fEC rates for 2019. The revised fEC rates are available on the PRAO

6 Dec 2019: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 1pm on Tuesday 24th December 2019 and will re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2020.

18 Jan 2019: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 217. Published on 18 January 2019. The Contract Status Portal is due to be retired on 31. st. January 2019 as its content has now been integrated into the Research

18 Jan 2019: The Contract Status Portal is due to be retired on 31st January 2019 as its content has now been integrated into the Research Dashboard. The dashboard offers Researchers and Administrators an overview of their contracts, applications and grants

11 Oct 2019: In the case of a no deal Brexit, the UK government has committed to underwrite the funds of all active EU grants and bids submitted until exit day. Information and updates on the underwrite can be found here. Further guidance is still to be published

22 Nov 2019: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 233. Published on 22 November 2019. The following updated pay scales with an effective date (COLA date) of 01/04/2019 were uploaded into X5 on Tuesday 19. th.

13 Sep 2019: In the case of a no deal Brexit, the UK government has committed to underwrite the funds of all active EU grants and bids submitted until exit day. Information and updates on the underwrite can be found here. Further guidance is still to be published

6 Dec 2019: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 234. Published on 6 December 2019. An Organisational Spend Report is submitted quarterly to the Wellcome Trust (WT) by the Research Operations Office (ROO) for the

8 Nov 2019: The annual funder submission period on Researchfish will be the 3rd February to 12th March 2020. In preparation for the submission period, the Research Office is running a workshop for node administrators and other staff involved in this process.

25 Oct 2019: The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is moving to a new research grants management system in January 2020 which means that they will soon stop accepting applications made through their current system. There will be deadlines for each grant type which

19 Dec 2019: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 1pm on Tuesday 24th December 2019 and will re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2020. The Research Operations Office will be open for business as usual in the morning on

25 Oct 2019: The annual UKRI submission period on Researchfish will be the 3rd February to 12th March 2020. In preparation for the submission period, the Research Office is running a workshop for node administrators and other administrative involved in this

6 Dec 2019: An Organisational Spend Report is submitted quarterly to the Wellcome Trust (WT) by the Research Operations Office (ROO) for the months of March, June, September and December. Before ROO submits the OSR, the WT have now asked that all expenditure is

7 Jun 2019: Eligible research organisations and NERC research centres are invited to submit up to two proposals for this pre-announcement NERC Capital Equipment Call (with a minimum value of £100,000 per proposal, but not exceeding a combined total value of

8 Nov 2019: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 1pm on Tuesday 24th December 2019 and will re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2020. Therefore please be aware of the following deadlines. Final Expenditure Statements

8 Nov 2019: An information event for the ERC Consolidator Call 2020 is being organised for all potential applicants, departmental administrators and research support staff. The deadline for the ERC Consolidator Grant Call 2020 is 4th February 2020 at 4pm (UK

7 Jun 2019: This event is aimed primarily at researchers and administrative staff who will be involved in applying for Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions - Individual Fellowship 2019. The agenda will include an introduction to the call guidance on how to prepare

18 Jan 2019: The annual submission period for UKRI, CRUK, NIHR, NC3R’s, BHF and other funders is 4th February to 14th March 2019 during which time PIs need to use their Researchfish account to make a return. To help with this process, research outputs entered