Improvements
Organisation Design
- Increased support for principal investigators through "cradle to grave" research management support – pre- and post-award
- Clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities to avoid duplication of effort
- “Right first time” approach
- Career development opportunities within research management support across the University
- More effective research management support collaboration across the University
Systems
- Use of funder templates to drive costing and pricing
- Data captured and validated at earliest point in the process
- Online approval workflow and improved approval summary
- “Auto” approval on award where no significant change from previously approved application
- Automatic creation of live project in the finance system (Agresso)
- Approval of award transfers relevant vacancy information to HR Payroll System
- No further financial approval required where no change from approved award
- Automatic re-phasing of budgets when actual start date updated
- Automatic posting of indirect/estate costs when actual start date updated
- Directly allocated salaries held in HR Payroll System to allow forecasting of salaries
- Improved financial reporting for principal investigators and support staff
- Draft Final Expenditure Statement produced 6 months before project end date
- Ability to capture reasons where award is not fully claimed at project close
- Improved risk management at an early stage
- Same project number pre- and post-award, allowing clearer tracking, visibility & linkage of projects