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17 Jul 2020: The Wellcome Trust has published some new guidance about how to offset carbon travel costs in a research grant application. The policy can be found on the Wellcome Trust website. Alongside this development, the University has recently published its

19 Mar 2020: We are asking Departments to prioritise their grant and contracts requirements, and to give consideration to your own contingency plans.

25 Sep 2020: X5 - the costing and pricing tool for research projects is due to be upgraded on Thursday 8th October. Some of our users have volunteered to test the new version over the last few weeks and we thank them for their time and feedback. A summary of the

11 Sep 2020: CRUK are in the process of migrating their grant management system eGMS to Flexi-Grant and this will mean some changes to how funding is applied for and how grants are managed. Further information can be found on CRUK's website.

15 May 2020: The Research Grant User Group (RGUG) meeting has been re-scheduled as a Live Event to take place on Thursday 21st May at 11am - 12pm. Join the RGUG Live Event The agenda will cover two items; the new application deadlines that have been temporarily

19 Jun 2020: A new Research Investigator Time Policy is being introduced from 1st August 2020 to improve cost recovery and better reflect the true cost of research. Details of the new policy can be found on the ROO website and the presentation slides on this

3 Jul 2020: Rose Eichenberger is the Global Health Research Manager at the Research Office and is available to answers queries and advise researchers undertaking health research projects in Low and Middle Income Countries. If you work on a global health

25 Sep 2020: Thank you to everyone who attended the Research Grants User Group (RGUG) Meeting on Thursday 24th September. Presentations were given on the X5 Upgrade and the CoA arrangements with slides and recording of the meeting now available on the RGUG

14 Aug 2020: The application deadline calculator on the Research Office website has been updated to reflect the bank holiday as well as the current additional requirements due to the COVID pandemic.

20 Nov 2020: Innovate UK’s new Innovation Funding Service Portal (IFS) is now live and there is a suite of training videos aimed at Participants, Finance Contacts and Monitoring officers. Everyone who was registered to use the previous system “ _Connect”