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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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

20 Sep 2016: This includes leading the development of successful technology such as Virtual Network Computing (VNC), which has created new markets and brought significant economic and environmental benefits.

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.

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

25 Oct 2016: The European Commission has signed an Implementing Arrangement (IA) with the USA, allowing American legal entities to work with Horizon 2020-funded consortia outside of the scope of the Horizon 2020 grant agreement. Under this new IA, American

21 Jul 2016: Researchers are faced throughout their careers with managing research data. Implementing best practice early on cannot only help you to access the right data quickly, but also ensure that data is relevant, reusable and accessible to others,

8 Dec 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

15 Apr 2016: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers End of Researchfish submissions “Teaming and Twinning calls” event BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant applications 2. RELEVANT TO: Research students End of Researchfish submissions 3. RELEVANT TO:

18 Mar 2016: We would like to remind departments and all researchers funded under a Marie Curie fellowship about their obligation to submit the following questionnaires: • An Evaluation questionnaire – at the end of his/her appointment/recruitment period,

19 Feb 2016: Have you heard about the Equipment Sharing Project and the Equipment Database which is available to everyone at the University? Have you heard of new funders’ policies for research data sharing?

24 Jun 2016: Income received from Research Grants and Contracts that is surplus to direct costs on the project is split between the Chest and Department in line with the University’s Income Allocation Policy (IAP). Please note that the split currently

10 Jun 2016: Wellcome Trust asked us to circulate the following opportunity: This fellowship scheme enables medical, dental, veterinary and clinical psychology graduates to continue their research at postdoctoral level and develop scientific independence. It

26 May 2016: Researchers are faced throughout their careers with managing research data. Implementing best practice early on cannot only help you to access the right data quickly, but also ensure that data is relevant, reusable and accessible to others,

4 Mar 2016: Irrecoverable VAT is now eligible expenditure on Innovate UK grants with effect from the new guidance issued on Oct-2015. For grants dated before Oct-2015, the wording of the award letter should be considered. For questions in this regard, please

26 May 2016: How can we ensure that researchers are rewarded for the quality of their research and not only for the impact factor of the journals in which they publish? What needs to happen so the quality of the whole research process is taken into account when

1 Apr 2016: You have probably been in this situation before: How do you find and access data for your research? In this workshop we will discuss the current challenges in data sharing, focusing especially on challenges faced by researchers studying cancer and

8 Dec 2016: The next Research Grants User Group Meeting will be held on Friday 10th February 2017 at 10am in the Norwich Room, Roger Needham Building, West Cambridge. Further details will be circulated in the New Year.

13 Oct 2016: The BBSRC Interim Chief Executive Professor Melanie Welham and colleagues are visiting the University on Monday 7th November 2016. Professor Welham will give an open presentation on the BBSRC strategy and forward plans followed by Q&A. Monday 7th

29 Apr 2016: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers Equipment Sharing Update Easter Term 2016 Innovate UK – new home for funding opportunities BA/ Leverhulme Small Research Grant applications 2. RELEVANT TO: Research students Equipment Sharing Update Easter

26 May 2016: RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers 1. New Requirement for RCUK Funded Equipment to appear on National Portal 2. Improving the research process - discussing an 'open research' position 3. The Data Dialogue. Time to Share: Navigating Boundaries &

18 Mar 2016: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers Researchfish submission deadline for NIHR grants “Teaming and Twinning calls” event Obligation for FP7 Marie Curie fellows to submit questionnaires 2. RELEVANT TO: Administrators Date of RGUG meeting

1 Apr 2016: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers Cancer Research UK Grant Finance Changes New Jisc-funded service for recruiting participants Become a member of the Research Data Management Project Group Open Science Framework - platform to manage research

4 Mar 2016: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers DEADLINE: RCUK Researchfish submission period closing 10 March 2016 Eligibility of claims related to irrecoverable VAT on Innovate UK grants 2. RELEVANT TO: Research students DEADLINE: RCUK Researchfish

19 Feb 2016: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers X5 Training for Departments X5 Unavailable – Tuesday 1st March between 07: 00 and 09:00 Reminder: Researchfish submission periods open Equipment and research data sharing information sessions 2. RELEVANT TO:

4 Feb 2016: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers X5 Update - new fEC and MRF/SRF rates Budget Calculator - PI Incentive removed Researchfish: submission periods for several funders have opened Round table discussion about CC BY requirements 2. RELEVANT TO:

22 Jan 2016: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers Researchfish training workshop taking place today (22 Jan.) in Cambridge RCUK Researchfish collection period 2016 DMP support service 2. RELEVANT TO: Research students Researchfish training workshop taking

8 Jan 2016: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers Reminder- Registration for Researchfish workshop on 22 Jan. 2016, at 1:30pm for PIs and 2:30pm for dep. administrators Wellcome Trust’s and CRUK’s requirements for data sharing – meet the funders

11 Oct 2016: Open Access Week 2016 is taking place from 24th – 30th October 2016 and the Office of Scholarly Communication is marking the occasion with several events including 1. Preprints: biomedical science publication in the era of Twitter and Facebook

15 Sep 2016: The Research Data Team is looking to recruit Data Champions from across the University of Cambridge to act as the local expert on Research Data Management (RDM) within their department, institute or college. You will have the opportunity to meet

15 Apr 2016: The invoicing process from UFS Grants has been developed and improved and will be released in to the live system on Tuesday, 19th April 2016. One of the improvements is the facility for the grants module to automatically attach an expenditure

22 Jan 2016: Most University funders now require data management plans as compulsory part of grant applications. Therefore, the Research Data Management team have launched a new service to support researchers in writing Data Management Plans. The service offers

19 Feb 2016: For your convenience, we would like to offer X5 Training at your Department. Please note this training will follow the same format as the X5 training already on offer. Should you be interested in taking up this offer, please note the following:

25 Oct 2016: The next Research Grants User Meeting will be Tuesday 1st November 2016 1.30pm - 3pm Mill Lane Lecture Theatre Room 7 Minutes of the previous meeting and an agenda for Tuesday's meeting are available here.

25 Nov 2016: The next Research Grants User Meeting (RGUG) will be Thursday 8th December 2016 9:30 - 11am Lecture Room 3, Inglis Building, Dept of Engineering, Trumpington Street Note: the venue has changed from Mill Lane to Dept of Engineering. Minutes of the

18 Mar 2016: The date for the next RGUG meeting has been moved from 31st March to 5th May 2016. Please refer to the ROO website for details.

15 Apr 2016: The Research Operations Office would like to thank all researchers and students for taking their time to submit their outcomes. We also appreciate the effort made by all Node Administrators to facilitate the submission. Please see below the

28 Oct 2016: The University of Oxford, in conjunction with HMG Export Controls Organisation will be hosting the first ever national workshop on Export Controls for the HE sector on Tuesday 29th November 2016 2-4pm University of Oxford The session is open to

25 Oct 2016: In preparation for the forthcoming funders’ collection period between 6 February and 16 March 2017, the University of Cambridge is taking part in a pilot project to help its researchers (including students) by providing an automatic upload

21 Jul 2016: We have been asked to circulate a presentation by EPSRC on the research landscape, and delivery plan in response to the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review. Please refer to the ROO website for the presentation slides.

13 Oct 2016: In January 2017 there will be an audit of grants from US Federal Sources (either funded directly by a federal agency or indirectly, through a third party). We are expecting 20% of our federally funded grants to be sampled for review. This will be a

26 May 2016: Grant applications submitted from August 2015 onwards Applications from August 2015 onwards will have been submitted on the WT Grant Tracker system. For these applications, Grant Start Certificates (GSCs) now need to be submitted through WT Grant