News and announcements

Technical Specialist Vacancy

by Niki Harratt | Jul 27, 2023 | Databases, Uncategorised

The Research Lifecycle Programme is looking for an experienced user of Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) to help develop new systems and approaches that will benefit the research community across the University.Working with The Programme’s friendly and supportive team,...

Requirements Gathering for RLP2

by Niki Harratt | Jun 30, 2023 | RLP2

In 2022 the Programme began an extensive scoping exercise to help understand how RLP and its successors could continue to grow support for the research and Professional Service communities. Over 15 weeks the Programme arranged and hosted workshops, interviews and...

Research Data Management Archive and Preservation Service

by Niki Harratt | Jun 29, 2023 | Data access, export and preservation

The Research Lifecycle Programme and Research IT are reviewing the platforms that the University uses for the long-term, or cold, storage of research data once a project concludes. This will help to inform the development of a replacement system. The Programme is keen...

Timesheeting – Project Update

by Niki Harratt | Jun 29, 2023 | Timesheets

Research Finance and The Research Lifecycle Programme are working together to improve the academic timesheet submission process – timesheets that are required by research funders. The outcome will be to move away from the current spreadsheet submission format. The...

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...

A little look back

by Niki Harratt | Dec 16, 2022 | In focus, Newsletter

As the end of the year comes racing towards us, it’s been a time of significant change for the Research Lifecycle Programme. We have said goodbye to Angus Hearmon, the programme’s director since 2018. Although retiring from the University, Angus already has some...