Understanding Research Financials in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 

Tuesday 7 May 2024, 1-1.50pm 

This Research Strategy Clinic focuses on key issues around research finances to help clarify the core principles and processes followed by the University, and Higher Education sector more widely, and how these affect researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Introduced by the Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the speakers will consider key points around managing overhead recovery from research grants, budgeting for teaching replacement, the TRAC method and full economic costing, and understanding how Quality-related Research Funding (QR) translates into budgets. We will also consider how the move to EFT (Enhanced Financial Transparency) may impact these elements. The Clinic aims to provide a high-level overview of these areas and will include plenty of time for Q & A. All welcome. 

Speakers: 

• Prof Tim Harper (Head of SHSS) 
• Dr Daniel Wunderlich (Assistant Director, Research Office) 
• Bev Housden (SHSS Finance Business Partner) 
• Ben Perks (SAH Finance Business Partner) 
• Dr Andrea Salter (AHSS Research Strategy Manager) 

International Engagement and Global Mobility

Monday 30 October 2023

View the presentation slides.

Are you interested in finding out how the University supports international engagement and global mobility for researchers? Are you aware of the latest guidance on travel and requirements for risk assessment? Do you have questions about the University’s new International Working Policy? Are there topics specific to arts, humanities and/or social science research you would like to raise?  

This webinar looked at the University’s launch of the new International Engagement Hub, which brings together the University’s guidance, tools and materials staff will need to engage with international partners and conduct overseas research into one place, in line with University’s International Working Policy, which took effect from 1 October 2023.

Speakers:

• Tammy Au (Head of International Support Service)
• Gillian Weale (Safety Office)
• Maria Buckman (Global Mobility Advisor)
• Ella McPherson (Deputy Head of SHSS, member of the Study Away Risk Assessment Committee)
• Elizabeth Penner (AHSS School Research Facilitator – International)
• with Andrea Salter (AHSS Research Assessment and Strategy Manager)

Over the next few months further useful tools and guidance will be added to the Hub to help researchers in the arts, humanities an social sciences navigate through international activity, including:

• a dedicated helpdesk for all travel away queries;
• a new online system (‘Peregrine’) for completing pre-travel risk assessment;
• a new travel management company;
• guidance on how to include international working related costs in research grant applications.

Find out about support available across the arts, humanities and social sciences for preparing research grant applications, and about the workings of the University’s Study Away Risk Assessment Committee (SARAC).