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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

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

21 Apr 2015: We are aware of an issue with Euro and USD currency rates not updating when the file is updated through the rates tab within the costing screen. Whilst we are waiting for a fix from the developers we would advise users to: i) Check that the rate is

21 Apr 2015: Funding alerts generated by Research Professional and circulated by Rhys Morgan will discontinue from the end of September.  Each institution should now have a designated administrator able to create and distribute more discipline-specific alerts

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

28 May 2015: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 135. Published on 28 May 2015. Each month X5 is updated with a default exchange rate for Euros, based on the average of the rates for the previous month. Recent

21 Apr 2015: pFACT will no longer be supported after 31st July 2014 and therefore will no longer be available for use after this date.What do you need to do ?1) Please ensure that any reports you need access to are printed and/or saved before 31st July 2014 so