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28 Jul 2023: When employees are travelling on business and are more than five miles from both their normal place of work and home, they are allowed to claim for the meals that they purchase for their own personal consumption (subject to the rates below), this is

24 Feb 2023: The Cambridge Libraries Survey is running until Friday 3 March. Give feedback on how you find accessing information, resources, help and training opportunities, as well as what you think about library spaces. Services provided by libraries include

1 Aug 2023: It is expected that, in most cases, business costs would be incurred by the institution as opposed to individual members of staff. This section details some of the main types of business expenses which may be incurred in exceptional circumstances,

1 Dec 2023: Elements will be unavailable from Thursday 14 December until Monday 18 December while it is upgraded to its latest version. It will not be possible to make open access, research data or doctoral theses deposits via Elements into the University

10 Feb 2023: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting will take place on Thursday 23rd February at 11:15am. The agenda will include information about how the Joint Electronic Submissions system (Je-S) will transition over to The Funding Service,

6 Oct 2023: The EC is organising an online infoday on 18th October 2023 to inform (potential) applicants about topics included in the Cluster 2 'Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Societies' work programme for 2024. Further details and registration are available

7 Jul 2023: The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) is an EU-funded programme which provides researchers and innovators with funding to set up interconnected, interdisciplinary and collaborative research networks in Europe and beyond. UKRO is

23 Jun 2023: A short new film that introduces the Transforming Research Support Programme, what’s being delivered and some of the benefits that people can expect has now been released! Please do take 5 minutes to grab a cuppa, watch the video, and hear

24 Mar 2023: An Organisational Spend Report (OSR) 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 next OSR, please could Departments check and

24 Feb 2023: Thank you to those who were able to attend the Research Grants User Group Meeting (RGUG) on 23rd February 2023. The recording and slides are now available. The meeting included an introduction to UKRI’s The Funding Service (TFS) which will replace

28 Apr 2023: The UK Government’s guarantee funding covers successful Horizon Europe applications submitted to calls with a final submission deadline date on or before 30 June 2023. This assumes that the grant agreement with the European Commission or delegated

28 Apr 2023: If you have received a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship or ERC Grant in the 2021 or 2022 calls hosted in the UK, but don’t have a Grant Agreement (because you are submitting your grant details to UKRI in order to receive funding through the Horizon

10 Mar 2023: The Finance Training team is undertaking a review of grants courses with a view to redesigning Grants 4 – Grants administration in CUFS. We would like to survey all staff involved with using the University finance systems to monitor or manage

10 Mar 2023: When costing your project in X5, please put SRCP under the Non-staff tab as an ‘Other directly incurred’ type cost. Then specify in the description field how many years and how many studies the cost covers. The current rate is £700 per study

24 Feb 2023: When costing your project in X5, please put SRCP under the Non-staff tab as an ‘Other directly incurred’ type cost. Then specify in the description field how many years and how many studies the cost covers. Input VAT can be left at zero rate

27 Jan 2023: We are seeking a mid-career researcher to join the newly formed Research Culture Steering Committee and participate in the setting of strategy and priorities for research culture across the University. The termly meetings are scheduled for Tuesday

28 Jul 2023: Thank you to those who were able to attend the Research Grants User Group Meeting (RGUG) on 20th July 2023. The recording and slides are now available. The next meeting is schedule for 28th September 2023 at 11:15am and this will be a hybrid meeting

19 May 2023: Thank you to those who were able to attend the Research Grants User Group Meeting (RGUG) on 11th May 2023. The recording and slides are now available. The next meeting is schedule for 20th July at 11:15am, details to follow. In response to questions

6 Apr 2023: On 1st April 2023, the University implemented its new Self-Archiving Policy covering research articles and conference proceedings authored by Cambridge researchers. This news article introduces the policy and explains why it has been developed to

26 Jul 2023: The winning submissions show evidence of ambitious engagement and impact plans which have the potential to create significant economic, social, and cultural impact from, and engagement with, research.