News and announcements

Newsletter: Compute equipment purchase, and lunch with the RLP

by Mike | Dec 12, 2018 | Compute capacity and resources, Event, Newsletter, Restricted data

Welcome to our final newsletter of 2018, in which we talk about our next business case, let you know when some of our new technology is expected to arrive, announce our ‘Lunch with the Research Lifecycle Programme’ event and talk about restricted data Business case...

Newsletter: Outcomes of community engagement and preparation for business cases

by Ellie | Nov 15, 2018 | CITP, Compute capacity and resources, Newsletter, Professional Services, Research networking and collaboration, Restricted data, Storage solutions

Thank you to those of you who were able to attend our recent community engagement events about restricted data, research networking and collaboration, and cloud solutions CITP approval This week, we received approval from the Change and IT Process (CITP) Subcommittee...

Newsletter: More opportunities to get involved

by Mike | Oct 31, 2018 | Cloud solutions, Innovation community, Newsletter, Restricted data

We’re looking for more people to get involved in programme activities, including a search for a leadership role in our Research IT innovation community project. We’ve also got a few other opportunities to have your voice heard on how the programme is moving forward....

Newsletter: Announcing the project managers

by Mike | Oct 15, 2018 | Cloud solutions, Compute capacity and resources, Costing, Digital Collections, Event, HPC, Innovation community, Newsletter, Pure, Research IT strategy and architecture, Research networking and collaboration

The Research Lifecycle Programme has been ramping up activity since the Change and IT Process (CITP) governance board approval of the first tranche of spend for this financial year. As promised, we can now announce the project managers of each of the change...

Newsletter: CITP Approval and Implementation

by Mike | Sep 28, 2018 | Compute capacity and resources, Event, Newsletter, Storage solutions

This past week has seen remarkable progression for the Research Lifecycle programme, with funding being approved and change projects moving into their first stages of implementation Change Projects On 18th September, the Change and IT Process Subcommittee (CITP)...

Newsletter: You’re invited to our next open house event

by Mike | Sep 14, 2018 | CITP, Compute capacity and resources, Event, Newsletter, Research IT strategy and architecture

The next in our series of open house events takes place on Tuesday 30 October, and our first business case for the 2018/19 financial year has been completed Business case news A further development for the RLP has been the completion of our first business case for the...

Newsletter: The research support professions focus groups

by Mike | Aug 31, 2018 | Event, Newsletter, Professional Services

In the past couple of weeks, we’ve hosted three groups of people in research support roles, to discuss how we can build and define research support professions across the University. We’ve also got a date for you to pencil in for the next open house event. News People...

Newsletter: The next business case

by Mike | Aug 20, 2018 | Uncategorised

Our major focus over the next few weeks is the preparation of the first 2018/19 business case for submission in September. We’re also still looking for participants for our Research Support Professions focus group events on 29 and 30 August. The 2018/19 business case...

An invitation to help the University build its Research support professions

by Mike | Aug 8, 2018 | Event, Professional Services

The Research Lifecycle Programme aims to build and define research support professions across the University. In order to define the parameters and scope of the project, your input is highly valuable. The project team will be running 3 focus groups and aims to capture...

Newsletter: Discover more about the change projects

by Mike | Aug 1, 2018 | Event, Newsletter, Projects

Many thanks to those of you who were able to attend our open house event last week; it was great to see that people are keen to find out much more about the programme!Information about the change projectsWe’ve added a new page to the Research Lifecycle Programme (RLP)...