FAQ - Grant Management & Reporting

On this page you can find answers to frequently asked questions about managing your grant and reporting. 

 

Running my project

 

Research Finance office can be contacted directly at rfo@ucd.ie. You can find out more about the types of questions they can help you with by clicking here.

If this is a new award and needs terms and conditions reviewed and formally accepted, please contact grant registration team at grantreg@ucd.ie.

If your query relates to expenditure or financial reporting, please contact rfo@ucd.ie

If query relates to hiring personnel, please contact the hr resourcing consultant for your college.

For cost sharing queries, please contact rfo@ucd.ie.

Research Finance office can be contacted directly at rfo@ucd.ie. You can find out more about the types of questions they can help you with by clicking here.

Eprocurement run regular training sessions on eprocurement system and step by step video tutorials can be found here.

Detailed information on how to transfer a grant to UCD can be found here. If you still require help, please contact us at grantreg@ucd.ie

Costed extensions must be requested from the funder. You'll find more information on how to do that here. If you have received a costed extension please notify the Grant registration team at grantreg@ucd.ie.

No cost /time extension only must be requested from the funder. You'll find more information on how to do that here. If you have received a no cost extension, please notify the Grant Registration team at grantreg@ucd.ie.

A request for the change in researcher name should be sought from the funding agency/sponsor. Please click here for information on how to do this and, where agreed, formal approval should be forwarded to the UCD Research and Innovation Office. You can notify the grant registration office of this change at grantreg@ucd.ie.

In case you need help with payment schedule, please contact Research Finance Office at rfo@ucd.ie. For deliverables, milestones, work packages, please contact the funder.

Scholarly publications books, conference proceedings, journal articles and their underlying data along with editorial board memberships, leadership in professional societies, consultancy or advisory work, contributions to successful grant applications, peer reviewing, invited talks and presentations should all be recorded on your RMS profile. Find out more information here. If you require help with this please send us your query at rmssupport@ucd.ie

If some of your publication outlets do not appear on the list, and you believe that this is an error, please fill the following form with your suggested title for review and addition at the publication channel list.

The award must be spent to support research activity. Examples of proposed use:

  • Procurement of new or replacement equipment.
  • Funding cost share on calls e.g. SFI infrastructure call.
  • Building research collaborations and or networks with a view to specific funding calls e.g. Horizon 2020. This could include incoming / outgoing visiting professorships, hosting of a conference, appointment of a new research position to develop existing research.
  • Covering unfunded costs on existing PhD students e.g. excess on non-EU student fees, or unfunded final year fees and stipend for PhD students.
  • Career development activities e.g. costs associated with approved sabbaticals or membership fees of an international organisation.
  • Provision of strategic and administrative research support or a post award research administrator shared between a number of PI’s.
  • Provision of research proposal support personnel e.g. grant writers.
  • Publishing costs e.g. publishing fees for Gold Open Access.
  • Presenting at a conference.

Where existing external funding is available for research support, consumables, conference attendance and travel, these should be used first. Read more for the Output-Based Research Support Scheme (OBRSS) at the UCD Research Portal.

In case you would like to use your OBRSS funds, eProcurement is the online requisitioning system through which UCD staff can requisition goods and services from third party suppliers. 
More information can be found at: 
https://www.ucd.ie/finance/financeoffice/financesystems/trainingsupport/eprocurement/

Another alternative, if the item or service is not catalogued, is to buy it using a credit card and then use the Staff Expenses form (T4) to make your claim. More information can be found at: 
https://www.ucd.ie/finance/financeoffice/staffexpenses/

As long as the expense is directly related to your research then the claim from your OBRSS account is valid.

If you have further queries contact expenses@ucd.ie in order to guide you on how to proceed with claiming.

Any queries relating to post award financial management and report, please contact rfo@ucd.ie.

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Closing out an award

 

The post-award unit of the Research Finance Office provides support when closing research accounts. Further information can be found here.

At the end of your research project, it is timely to carry out the final step of dataset archiving for long-term storage, as per your Data Management Plan. Click here for more information or contact library@ucd.ie.

The post-award unit of the Research Finance Office provides support when closing research accounts. Click here for more information or contact rfo@ucd.ie.