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22 Nov 2016: The Research Office will be offering guidance to PIs and students who are required to submit a return to Researchfish for the next submission period 6 February 2017 to 16 March 2017 at 4pm. For PIs - a return is mandatory if you have been in receipt

11 Oct 2016: Cultural heritage is a driver for sustainable economic development and a cohesive force for our multicultural societies.”.

21 Jul 2016: The new Income Allocation Policy of the University will be effective from 1 August 2016 onwards. The Policy outlines how income received from Research Grants and Contracts, which is surplus to direct costs on the project, is split between the Chest

14 Mar 2016: s article "Modernity and the Economics of Gift and Charity: On Ivan Illich's Critique of Abstract Philanthropy" has recently been published in the New York-based journal of critical theory, ... Western economic modernity has much to do with the gradual

26 May 2016: In accordance with recent updates to RCUK's Terms and Conditions, all RCUK Funded Equipment purchased above £138,000 is to appear on the National Equipment Portal If you ensure items to which this would apply are given PUBLIC visibility on the

13 May 2016: MSCA - New Expert Evaluators Sought As the schemes continue to be very popular and receive large numbers of proposals, new expert evaluators that have not yet registered or been invited to take part in the review process for the Marie

10 Jun 2016: Changes to the Income Allocation Policy come into effect for awards activated on and after 1st August 2016. The new policy will increasingly affect new and existing costings in progress. A message has been added to the X5 costing screen notifying

4 Mar 2016: The following funders have Open Submission periods with imminent deadlines in Researchfish: • All seven Research Councils (RCUK): 10 Mar 2016 • Cancer Research UK (CRUK): 10 Mar 2016 • British Heart Foundation (BHF): 10 Mar 2016 • NC3Rs: 17

22 Jan 2016: Researchfish will host a training workshop for administrators and researchers in Cambridge today. Two sessions will take place: the first one (1:30-2:30pm) is aimed at PIs, the second one (2:30-3:30pm) at Departmental Administrators. We strongly

8 Jan 2016: David Carr from the Wellcome Trust and Jamie Enoch from Cancer Research UK are coming to Cambridge to talk with researchers about research data sharing. They will give short talks about their requirements for data sharing and afterwards you will

8 Dec 2016: Mary de Silva, Head of the Wellcome Trust's Population, Environment and Health section and colleagues will visit the University on Tuesday 20th December. The team will give an overview of their funding schemes and invite your feedback on the changes

25 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

21 Jan 2016: Researcher Declaration A “Researcher Declaration” needs to be completed within 20 days of the start of the project for every researcher employed on a MSCA European Training Network or RISE project.

19 Feb 2016: This is advance notice from UIS that X5 will be unavailable during these times whilst essential server updates are performed. Users may also experience issues with submitting MTA/CDAs on-line during this period. UIS apologise for any inconvenience

8 Dec 2016: The Research Office will be offering guidance to PIs and students who are required to submit a return to Researchfish for the next submission period 6 February 2017 to 16 March 2017 at 4pm. Funders included in this window are RCUK, BHF, CRUK, NIHR,

19 Aug 2016: It was announced over the weekend that HM Treasury has agreed to underwrite the payments of Horizon 2020 grants singed whilst the UK remains a member of the EU for projects that continue beyond the UK’s departure from the EU. For more information

13 May 2016: Pop over to our informal 1hour information session to learn about the University’s research repository ‘Apollo’ and see how it can help you to get more credit for your work. The Office of Scholarly Communication will show you how to easily get

8 Jan 2016: Researchfish is running a series workshops across the UK in January 2016 on the Researcher Interface and covering some training for administrators who are tasked with administering the returns on behalf of their institutions. Two sessions will take

5 Aug 2016: In an update to the new IAP, the 50:50 split between Chest and Department of PI time income for chest-funded PIs for ERC awards, has been extended to apply to all H2020 awards. The update was implemented as part of the new IAP which came into effect

16 Feb 2016: But biotechnology, in the Pope’s words, also gives those with knowledge and economic resources “an impressive dominance over the whole of humanity,” and “nothing ensures that [such power] will be