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1 Apr 2016: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 156. Published on 1 April 2016. 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers. Cancer Research UK Grant Finance Changes. New Jisc-funded service for recruiting

8 Dec 2016: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 174. Published on 8 December 2016. The Research Operations Office (ROO) will close for the Christmas / New Year break from Friday 23rd December 2016 - Tuesday 3rd

11 Oct 2016: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 170. Published on 11 October 2016. The Research Operations Office is about to embark on our 2017 Research Administrators' Programme. It consists of six separate

21 Jul 2016: The date of the next RGUG meeting has been changed: it will now take place on 8 Sept. 2016 at Mill Lane Lecture Theatres. The meeting will start at 9:30am. For more details regarding the meeting please refer to RGUG section of the ROO website.

7 Nov 2016: Economics. Sally Edwards-Waller. (3)35212. Knowledge Transfer Facilitator.

4 Feb 2016: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 152. Published on 4 February 2016. 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers. X5 Update - new fEC and MRF/SRF rates. Budget Calculator - PI Incentive removed.

22 Jan 2016: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 151. Published on 22 January 2016. 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers. Researchfish training workshop taking place today (22 Jan.) in Cambridge. RCUK

26 May 2016: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 160. Published on 26 May 2016. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers. 1. New Requirement for RCUK Funded Equipment to appear on National Portal. 2. Improving the

1 Apr 2016: Indexation: From 1st April 2016 indexation will be reduced from 2.5% to 2% Only affects grant award letters sent on or after 1st April 2016 Continue to submit applications without indexation On-costs: In light of SA and NI increases as of 1st April

19 Feb 2016: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 153. Published on 19 February 2016. 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers. X5 Training for Departments. X5 Unavailable – Tuesday 1st March between 07: 00 and

18 Mar 2016: The Researchfish submission deadline for NIHR grants closes 23 March 2016. For response code change requests and other assistance please email RFCam@admin.cam.ac.uk.

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22 Jan 2016: The Research Grants User Group (RGUG) is a forum led by the Research Operations Office where research grant administration issues and developments are discussed. The next RGUG meeting will take place on Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 9.30am in Mill

29 Apr 2016: Earlier this year the Science and Engineering South (SES) Equipment Sharing Consortium extended its membership to include Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, UCL, Southampton and King’s College London. Providing access to all University staff and

8 Jan 2016: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 150. Published on 8 January 2016. 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers. Reminder- Registration for Researchfish workshop on 22 Jan. 2016, at 1:30pm for PIs and

25 Oct 2016: Are you a researcher applying for grants? Or someone supporting researchers with their grant applications? If so, this event is for you. Wednesday 16th November 2016 12noon - 2pm Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane You will learn everything you need to

29 Apr 2016: A new governmental website has been launched for all funding competitions run by Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency. Applications can be made to test the feasibility of your idea, research and develop it and demonstrate it in a prototype.

24 May 2016: socio-economic background.

19 Feb 2016: Researchfish is a research outcome gathering programme used by an increasing number of funders. For essential information and guidance please refer to the Researchfish section of the ROO website. Outcomes can be entered throughout the year but MUST

10 Jun 2016: School of the Humanities and Social Sciences . Faculty of Economics. MPhil in Economic Research. ... School of the Humanities and Social Sciences . Faculty of Economics. MPhil in Economics.

22 Jan 2016: The RCUK submission period for reporting outcomes of research opens on 1st February and runs to 10th March 2016. PIs and research students are required to submit their research outcomes via Researchfish. Guidance on using Researchfish can be found

15 Jan 2016: How economics and politics are influenced by moral sentiments? In this book Adam Smith explores the tensions between the ideas of individual freedom & self-interest and those of conscience and virtue.

10 Nov 2016: This call is open to Cambridge research groups funded by the Wellcome Trust. Are you in favour of more transparency in research? Are you concerned about research reproducibility? Would you like to get better recognition and credit for all outputs of

19 Aug 2016: The Equipment Sharing Project now has its own Twitter account to follow: https://twitter.com/cam_equip Here relevant topical information relating to the Equipment Sharing Community and news from the Sector is circulated. Small Research Facilities

4 Feb 2016: Researchfish is a research outcomes collection system for researchers and students. Research outcomes can be uploaded throughout the year but must be submitted during the submission period of the respective funders. The submission period for the

10 Jun 2016: Wellcome Trust asked us to circulate the following opportunity: Proposals are now accepted for a joint funding programme between three European foundations: the Wellcome Trust, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

4 Feb 2016: The Research Data Management team would like to welcome everyone to take part in a round table discussion about current open access policy requirements that articles are published with a CC-BY licence. They wish to hear stories of how the licence

8 Sep 2016: According to the current regulation of the H2020 Model Agreement, internally invoice costs charged to EU grants need to be divided up and reported according to the different cost categories. This is not only a heavy additional administrative burden,

22 Nov 2016: Researchfish is a web-based system used by RCUK to collect the research outcomes and outputs of its award holders. The next RCUK submission period is 6 February to 16 March 2017, 4pm. Representatives from Researchfish will be coming to Cambridge to

5 Aug 2016: RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers Advance Notice - Symplectic upgrade w/c 15 August 2016 New Income Allocation Policy – ERC PI time income split now extended to all H2020 awards ERC Starting Grant Information session New Concordat on Open Data

15 Apr 2016: The British Academy Small Research Grants deadline is 11 May 2016 (5pm BST). Please note that these grants fall below the value for which ROO undertakes routine checks. Therefore, before submitting an application we strongly advise you to refer to

1 Apr 2016: The Research Office has been asked to pass on information on a new Jisc-funded service, Call For Participants. This is a free online service for advertising surveys, interviews and other research studies to the public and recruiting participants.

8 Jan 2016: This workshop will focus on the challenges of managing social media data for research across the lifecycle of a research project and beyond. Participants will explore the following questions with our panel of experts: How can I plan the collection

25 Nov 2016: X5 will not be available on Monday 28th November 2016 from 7:30am to 9:00am to allow the loading of the Salary uplift. For existing draft applications, you will need to update the Rates Tab to upload the new salary details.

8 Dec 2016: Researchfish is a web-based system used by RCUK to collect the research outcomes and outputs of its award holders. The next RCUK submission period is 6 February to 16 March 2017, 4pm. Representatives from Researchfish will be coming to Cambridge to

21 Jul 2016: The ROO website on European funding has been updated following the EU referendum result. Moreover, the University will launch a website shortly to compile all the relevant information regarding the Brexit. Once the link to the University site is

13 Jun 2016: A research project led by Professor Ianthi Tsimpli, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID), will measure 1,600 children language, ... This research will explore how the

8 Dec 2016: The minutes from the Research Policy Committee meeting on 6th October 2016 are now available http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/cam-only/committee/rpc/minutes/ Administrative and research staff maybe particularly interested in the following items

24 Jun 2016: The Chief Operating Officer of EPSRC has brought an incident of inappropriate use of funds by an HEI to our attention. It is related to payments for dinner that are contrary to the conditions for RCUK grants. Most other funders have similar policies.

29 Apr 2016: The British Academy Small Research Grants deadline is 11 May 2016 (5pm BST). In response to the large number of errors in previous applications, the BA has asked institutions to ensure they refer to the scheme notes and FAQs before submitting an

24 Feb 2016: A valid European Health Insurance Card gives EEA nationals the right to access state-provided healthcare during a temporary stay in another European Economic Area (EEA) country or Switzerland:.

20 Jul 2016: FAQs from prior years' seminars and workshops are listed below. - 2023 questions start from Q. Who do we email the schedule of accruals and prepayments to? - 2021 and 2022 questions start from Q. What codes should be used for departmental accruals? -

10 Jun 2016: Research Councils will be upgrading their electronic grants submission service in 2017. The Je-S system has come to a natural end and this is an opportunity to design a smarter, simpler more user friendly service in line with the latest digital

1 Apr 2016: Are you interested in research data management? Then you should consider applying to become a member of the Research Data Management (RDM) Project Group. What is the purpose of this Group?

22 Nov 2016: The Research Operations Office (ROO) will close for the Christmas / New Year break from Friday 23rd December 2016 - Tuesday 3rd January 2017. In order to help us manage incoming work, deadlines which fall during the office closure period as well as

8 Jan 2016: The Research Operations Office has provided Researchfish with an up-to-date list of node allocations for all awards. Researchfish will need time to upload the information. We expect that amendments will be made by mid-January. Until then, Node

21 Jul 2016: Is the University providing you with enough support on research data management? Are there any gaps in our current service provision? What could the University do to better address your research data management needs? The University of Cambridge is

10 Nov 2016: A publicly accessible webpage http://www.equipment-sharing.cam.ac.uk has been developed to signpost University of Cambridge users to the Equipment Sharing Project Database and non-university members of the public directly to the National Portal.

22 Jul 2016: The Greater Cambridge City Deal is a partnership between central government, council leaders, businesses and the University of Cambridge, and aims to reduce infrastructure barriers to future economic growth in the

5 Aug 2016: Due to planned maintenance work Symplectic will be unavailable from 15-19 August 2016. The system will be upgraded to version 5.1.1, which has a new look and feel as well as additional functionality. During this time, it may be possible to login to