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    SPIRAL: Improving Cost Recovery on Research Projects
    Provider   Organisational and Staff Development Unit

    Understand the different cost elements of a research project and how the recovery of institutional costs (overheads) can be improved when a research project is costed.

Duration 1 hour

Course Type Webinar

Booking Status Waiting List

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Target Audience: All staff involved in costing research projects, approving costings of research projects, or managing departmental/faculty finances in relation to research.

This course is about improving the financial return to the University, Faculty and Department when costing research projects, whoever the funder. It starts by describing the different cost elements of a research project, and then defines two measures of financial return - cost recovery and recovery rate. As these are affected by how the project is costed and by the pricing template used, strategies for improving recovery with respect to different funders are elucidated.

Participants should learn:

  • The importance of cost recovery to the University, Faculty and Department
  • The different types of cost associated with research projects
  • How cost recovery is measured
  • How recovery can be improved
  • What further information resources are available

11.00 - 12.00  26 October 2021

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14.00 - 15.00  27 April 2022

Please note, passwords will be provided in your confirmation email when you book, so please check your mailboxes.

 

Accesibility

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff. If you feel you have a disability, health issue, or neurodivergent condition that may affect your ability to access, participate or engage in this course, please get in touch with us at osdu@strath.ac.uk to discuss your specific support requirements.

 



Delivered By: Ian Dwyer, Mathematics and Statistics, delivered on behalf of RKES.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with costing research proposals (not necessarily at Strathclyde).

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When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* to your department if you cancel within 5** working days or you do not attend, and a £25 charge for cancellations/ non-attendance between 6 and 10 working days. There will be no charge for cancellation made 10 or more working days before the event. Notifications should be made to OSDU@strath.ac.uk

A department is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary pre-requisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you must attend ALL parts of the course. If you fail to attend any part you will be charged as outlined above.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of course of 1 days duration or less. For some courses there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.

**Any bookings made within 10 days of the event will incur the charges as specified.