MDR Staff Blog

Due to cost centre changes for some Depts and some PIs, any existing grant/funding transactions which are in flight without final approval may not appear in the new “organisation” code when the changes have been made, therefore existing proposals MUST be fully approved by COB 23 July. This relates to POs, journals, staff requests, expenses etc, hence you will need inform the approver(s) in the approval hierarchy of any transactions awaiting their approval. If you have a grant deadline between 24 July – 5 August, you are encouraged to contact your Section Manager as soon as possible.

InfoEd will be unavailable from Wednesday 24 July – Monday 5 August (inclusive) and existing proposals MUST be fully approved by COB 23 July

Existing InfoEd proposals – which have not been fully approved by each Dept and the JRO, MUST be fully approved by COB 23^th July.

Any new InfoEd proposals created and/or submitted after this date MUST also be approved right through the route before the systems go down at the end of the month.

Failure to do so will mean the proposal will be returned to Draft, the PI will need to be changed to the new dept version on the dropdown list, the recovery will be reset to before any changes were made and the proposal will have to be reapproved through the new approval structure for that dept.  This could be problematic for funder deadlines in early August.

Please find a list of the deadlines we are aware of during this period – this will not be a complete list, there will be others: