News and announcements

RLP news and announcements

We publish our Research Lifecycle newsletter every month, with a very occasional extra message if we’ve got an event or timely piece of news we’d like to tell you about. We won’t use your email address for any other purposes.

Award Mobilisation

by m94573nh | Jul 3, 2024 | Uncategorised

Implementation of Award Mobilisation - Improvements to grant awards set up and continuous improvement The Research Lifecycle Programme began working on process improvements around award mobilisation in 2023. The goal of this work was to improve the experience of...

RLP Theme Leaders

by m94573nh | Jun 26, 2024 | RLP2, Uncategorised

The Research Lifecycle Programme is recruiting theme leaders to support and advocate for the research community during its next phase. The Research Lifecycle Programme (RLP) will begin its next phase in August 2024. The programme will invest in people, systems and...

Pure Cloud Migration

by m94573nh | Jun 12, 2024 | Uncategorised

Pure Migration On 7 May 2024 the Research Lifecycle Programme (RLP) launched the migration of Pure to Elsevier’s dedicated cloud platform. Pure is The University of Manchester’s Research Information Management System. It is used by academic and professional services...

Digital Timesheets – Making a difference to the academic community

by m94573nh | Apr 25, 2024 | End-to-end processes, Timesheets

The Research Lifecycle Programme has been working with research finance to implement a new digital timesheet system.This digital solution is designed to be used by research projects who are currently required to submit timesheets, as per their funder terms and...

Improving research capability is at the heart of RLP

by m94573nh | Apr 25, 2024 | Uncategorised

The difference is clear Since, 2019 the Research Lifecycle Programme has been improving The University of Manchester’s capability to conduct research. The latest re-evaluation of research capability, using the research capability framework, shows that since 2019...

Digital exploration of the School of Architecture’s model collection

by m94573nh | Apr 25, 2024 | Data access, export and preservation, Digital Collections

Innovation & collaborationUsing innovative 3D scanning equipment & techniques and with the collaboration of several parts of the organisation, the University of Manchester is embarking upon a project to make students physical architectural models accessible as...

Developing a Secure Research Environment

by m94573nh | Jan 30, 2024 | Uncategorised

The Research Lifecycle Programme’s work to help The University of Manchester to develop a Secure Research Environment is continuing to engage with stakeholders across the University. This includes academics and PS colleagues who support research. Work officially...

Making the Most of The Research Risk Profiler

by m94573nh | Jan 17, 2024 | End-to-end processes, Reporting, monitoring and audit, Uncategorised

The Research Risk Profiler – Usability Testing In early February, the team who support The Research Risk Profiler (RRP) will be hosting two workshops to evaluate its usability for early-career researchers, academics and professional services colleagues. The team are...

The Research Lifecycle Programme Showcase

by m94573nh | Nov 30, 2023 | Event

On 14 November 2023 The Research Lifecycle Programme hosted its first showcase event. Featuring a networking event, lightning talks and a panel discussion on the programme's future work, the event set out to highlight the best work completed so far. Overview Following...

Academic Timesheets: Roll out to Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

by m94573nh | Nov 29, 2023 | Uncategorised

In February 2024, Research Finance and the Research Lifecycle Programme will be rolling out the new academic timesheet system to all research colleagues in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health who are currently required to submit timesheets, as per their...