News and announcements

Newsletter: Help us shape the programme

by Mike | Jul 20, 2018 | CITP, Cloud solutions, Compute capacity and resources, Costing, Data access, export and preservation, Databases, Digital Collections, Edge compute, End-to-end processes, Enhanced integration, Event, Funders and partners, HPC, Innovation community, Newsletter, Professional Services, Pure, Reporting, monitoring and audit, Research IT strategy and architecture, Research networking and collaboration, Research support interface, reporting and communications, Restricted data, Search and discovery, Storage solutions

We’re keen on reaching out to our entire research community to help us shape the direction of the change projects The planning for our change projects’ implementation has started in earnest. Our five-year activity plans are set out in the business case and we are...

Newsletter: What is the Research Lifecycle Programme going to do?

by Mike | Jul 5, 2018 | CITP, Data access, export and preservation, Event, Newsletter, Restricted data

Find out more about the programme's change projects at our next event on Wednesday 25 JulyOne of the common questions we’ve had - especially in the past few weeks - has been “What is the Research Lifecycle Programme going to do?”Read on to find out how we’ll be...

Newsletter: The business case is in

by Mike | Jun 14, 2018 | CITP, Event, Professional Services

Materials from June's open house session are now available for download Thanks to those of you who were able to attend yesterday’s open house session where we talked about the business case being submitted. Materials are available, and there’s some more info about...

Newsletter: Background work, IT Services and our next event

by Mike | May 30, 2018 | Newsletter, Survey

There are just two weeks to go before our next open house event on Wednesday 13 June, to which anyone with an interest in research is invitedEven if you’ve been to one of our events before, we recommend you still attend, as you will find out more about our proposals...

Newsletter: Options choices, our next event and more on the costing tool

by Mike | May 16, 2018 | Costing, Event, Survey

We look at the results of your feedback from May’s event, introduce our next open house event on Wednesday 13 June, and invite you to attend Research Costing Tool product demonstrations.Thought ExchangeThe Thought Exchange survey generated some feedback from the...

Presentation: May 2018’s open house event

by Mike | May 3, 2018 | Presentation, Survey

May's open house event included an analysis of the Thought Exchange survey findings and some emerging options The materials are available for download. You can either download the slides for your reference, or watch a narrated version of the presentation: Download the...

Newsletter: Thought Exchange part 2, and the Research Costing Tool project

by Mike | May 2, 2018 | Costing, Newsletter, Survey

There’s just one day to go before our next ‘open house’ event, we have the second half of our story about the Thought Exchange survey, and an introduction to the Research Costing Tool project.Thought Exchange alternative “survey” experiment – Part 2In the previous...

Reminder: Research Lifecycle Programme open house event on Thursday 3 May

by Mike | Apr 25, 2018 | Event

The Research Lifecycle is a five-year programme of investments to support The University of Manchester in meeting its goal of being one of the top 25 research universities in the world The third of the programme’s ‘open house’ events is taking place at 12:30pm on...

Newsletter: Outcomes of the survey

by Mike | Apr 18, 2018 | Survey

The outcomes of the Thought Exchange survey, and an invitation to our next Q&A sessionThis newsletter concentrates on the outcomes of the Thought Exchange survey we ran a few weeks ago, asking people for their opinions on Research IT.We invite any University staff...

Newsletter: Capabilities framework for e-Research infrastructure and Research Data Management

by Mike | Apr 4, 2018 | Cloud solutions, Compute capacity and resources, Edge compute, HPC, Newsletter, Restricted data

In this issue, we invite you to our next event on Thursday 3 May, and talk in some detail about the capabilities framework for e-Research infrastructure and Research Data Management Thank you for sharing your thoughts As you’re aware, we distributed our Thought...