Glen, Annalisa and I have just returned from this afternoon’s positively glittering 2011 Team Achievement and Individual Merit Awards ceremony for staff at the University of Lincoln. This annual event makes awards for exceptional performance in a number of categories. We…
Orbital: some reflections on the bid-writing process
Joss Winn and Paul Stainthorp have both blogged recently on their experiences of writing a JISC bid for the recent call in their Managing Research Data programme. I’d encourage you read their posts for some interesting insights into the bid-writing process.…
HEFCE-Funded Award Management Project Underway
The University of Exeter have recently announced that the HEFCE/JISC-funded RMAS (Research Management and Administration System) project is now underway. This is important because although some institutions already use off-the-shelf systems like this, often they are not fully inter-operable with other university…
New TRAC charge-out rates from 1st Feb 2011
The 2009-10 TRAC Return for University of Lincoln has now been approved and sent to HEFCE and the new TRAC charge out rates to be used from 1 Feb 2011 have now been published on the staff portal: New TRAC…
ARMA Conference 2010
Last month I attended the ARMA annual conference along with David Young (Senior Research Facilitator, whose blog post can be read here) and Carolyn Williams (Research Administrator, MHT.) Whilst David attended most of the policy, operations and governance sessions and…
ARMA Conference 2010
This year the annual conference of the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) took place in Manchester at the Midland Hotel. It was the largest ARMA conference yet, with 350 delegates from research support offices across the UK Higher…