News and announcements

Theme leader recruitment

by Niki Harratt | Sep 30, 2024 | Uncategorised

The Research Lifecycle Programme is recruiting theme leaders to support and advocate for the research community during its next phase. The Research Lifecycle Programme (RLP) will begin its next phase in August 2024. The programme will invest in people, systems and...

A boost to research computing power

by Niki Harratt | Sep 25, 2024 | Compute capacity and resources

Much of the University’s research depends on simulation, modelling, problem-solving, and experimentation, all of which generate data – often in massive amounts. To effectively generate, process, and analyse this research data, we need substantial computational power...

Digital Notebooks (and Sample Inventories) – Requirement Gathering

by Niki Harratt | Sep 20, 2024 | End-to-end processes

What are we doing? This project, part of the Research Lifecycle Programme’s ongoing investment in the University’s research environment, will help to support the implementation of at least one digital notebook platform (integrated with a sample inventory, where...

Award Mobilisation

by Niki Harratt | Jul 3, 2024 | Uncategorised

Implementation of Award Mobilisation – Final project activities and handover to the business The implementation of improvements made to the Award Mobilisation processes has been completed by the Research Lifecycle Programme and will now continue being embedded within...

RLP Theme Leaders

by Niki Harratt | Jun 26, 2024 | RLP2, Uncategorised

The Research Lifecycle Programme is recruiting theme leaders to support and advocate for the research community during its next phase. The Research Lifecycle Programme (RLP) will begin its next phase in August 2024. The programme will invest in people, systems and...

Pure Cloud Migration

by Niki Harratt | Jun 12, 2024 | Uncategorised

Pure Migration On 7 May 2024 the Research Lifecycle Programme (RLP) launched the migration of Pure to Elsevier’s dedicated cloud platform. Pure is The University of Manchester’s Research Information Management System. It is used by academic and professional services...

Digital Timesheets – Making a difference to the academic community

by Niki Harratt | Apr 25, 2024 | End-to-end processes, Timesheets

The Research Lifecycle Programme has been working with research finance to implement a new digital timesheet system.This digital solution is designed to be used by research projects who are currently required to submit timesheets, as per their funder terms and...

Improving research capability is at the heart of RLP

by Niki Harratt | Apr 25, 2024 | Uncategorised

The difference is clear Since, 2019 the Research Lifecycle Programme has been improving The University of Manchester’s capability to conduct research. The latest re-evaluation of research capability, using the research capability framework, shows that since 2019...

Digital exploration of the School of Architecture’s model collection

by Niki Harratt | Apr 25, 2024 | Data access, export and preservation, Digital Collections

Innovation & collaborationUsing innovative 3D scanning equipment & techniques and with the collaboration of several parts of the organisation, the University of Manchester is embarking upon a project to make students physical architectural models accessible as...

Developing a Secure Research Environment

by Niki Harratt | Jan 30, 2024 | Uncategorised

The Research Lifecycle Programme’s work to help The University of Manchester to develop a Secure Research Environment is continuing to engage with stakeholders across the University. This includes academics and PS colleagues who support research. Work officially...