Overview
Polices and procedures in relation to research grants can be split into two broad categories: Pre - and Post-award.
| Pre-award activities | Departments supported by |
- determing if funding is a research grant or not
- understanding sponsor terms and conditions
- full economic costing (fEC) of research and the use of the Worktribe costing tool
- applying for grants
- contract negotation
- delegating responsibility in departments
| Research Operations Office (ROO) |
| Post-award services | |
- the set up and activation of successful grants on UFS
- the implementaton of budgets and controls to meet sponsors' terms and conditions
- amending existing grants
- responding to sponsors' auditors
- managing any subsquent amendments to the funding/grant
- invoicing and recovery of funds from sponsors
- processes when an award finishes
| Research Operations Office (ROO) |
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- charging of expenditure to the grant
- monitoring spend
- processing of overheads
- manging the relationship between Grants and the General Ledger within UFS
| Research Accounting Team within the Finance Division |
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- Invoicing and recovery of funds from sponsors
| Research Operations Office in conjunction with the Credit Control Team within the Finance Division |
Page updated 17 December 2024: X5 changed to Worktribe and link to Worktribe Sharepoint site added.
