Research Lifecycle Programme | Projects Archives

Award Mobilisation – Project Update

by Niki Harratt | Jun 29, 2023 | End-to-end processes, Uncategorised

The Research Lifecycle Programme continues to support Project A – Award Mobilisation to improve the researcher and professional services experience at the point of award mobilisation. Demands on time for our...

HRDS Webinar

by Niki Harratt | Jan 26, 2023 | Restricted data

On Thursday 9 March the team behind the University's Highly Restricted Data Service hosted a webinar outlining the capabilities of the systems and platforms they support. This 50 minute webinar has been developed to explain the functionality and costs of using the...

Updating the Research Lifecycle Programme’s Capability Assessment

by Niki Harratt | Jan 23, 2023 | End-to-end processes

Work will shortly commence to update the research lifecycle capability assessment. The previous assessment exercise was conducted by Sally Horridge in 2019 at the beginning of RLP1. This capability assessment became a baseline for RLP activity and informed the...

Launch of the Research Costing Tool – BlackDackel

by Niki Harratt | Jan 18, 2023 | Costing

We are pleased to announce that we have launched access of BlackDackel to Research Academics and Project Managers. This launch is based on voluntary access to the costing tool, where you will be able to model research grants in a safe environment and share this with...

Timesheet System – Early Adopters

by Niki Harratt | Jan 12, 2023 | Timesheets

Colleagues wanted to be Early Adopters for the new Timesheet system.If you are a researcher who submits monthly timesheets, then you and your research group colleagues could be part of the early adopter team for the new Academic Timesheet System.Research Finance and...

Research Explorer Upgrade

by Niki Harratt | Nov 10, 2022 | End-to-end processes, Networking, Pure

We are pleased to announce that the upgrade to Research Explorer, the University’s research profile platform has now taken place. As part of this upgrade, you may notice some temporary degradation on Research Explorer whilst the upgrade is configured. We hope to...

Research Risk Profiler – Begin your research project safely and securely

by Niki Harratt | Oct 6, 2022 | In focus, Reporting, monitoring and audit

Originally launched in February 2022 as part of the Research Lifecycle’s Project A, the Research Risk Profiler (RRP) is a simple tool that helps researchers to quickly and easily identify factors which may delay or slow their work.The RRP is a questionnaire that takes...

A Refreshed Offer from the Highly Restricted Data Service

by Niki Harratt | Aug 9, 2022 | Projects, Restricted data

The HRDS comprises four sub-services which provide secure platforms that make it easier for researchers to use restricted and highly restricted research data in their work. These systems are underpinned by the team’s technical and governance knowledge and their...

REDCap

by Niki Harratt | Aug 2, 2022 | Projects, Survey Tools

An updated instance of the research survey tool REDCap is now available to researchers as part of the Research Lifecycle Programme’s Project Y.REDCap is a well-known and respected survey and database platform used in the collection of highly restricted data for...