Post-award support

Congratulations on successfully applying for research funding!

The information and links below identify the various professional services that you may need to access for support over the project’s lifetime.

Different funders have different requirements for the management of the projects they fund and you should carefully read the terms of the grant offer so that you understand what these requirements are.

As the Principal Investigator (PI), you have overall responsibility for your project (or the Plymouth component of it) and for ensuring that you meet the terms of the grant agreement. Failure to do this could have serious ramifications for you and the University.

As a first step, please contact the Funding Advisory Service as soon as you receive confirmation that your application has been successful.

If your project involves partner organisations then you are likely to need a collaboration agreement. See the legal section below for further details.

Finance

The Research Accounting team provide central post award support for research projects, including:

setting up project budgets

monitoring spend

managing claims

financial reporting to the funder

procurement.

The team will be in contact once a project has moved to post-award on Award Manager. You can contact the team via research.accounting@plymouth.ac.uk

Contract Management

Our Research Contracts Manager can support with all manner of contract management queries and challenges:

Reviewing funders contracts or terms and conditions and recommending points to add, amend or negotiate

Setting up a range of agreement with partners, for example collaboration agreements, sub-contracts, project agreements, variations and extension

Supporting negotiation of internal processes and systems related to contracting and project set-up

Supporting contract management post go-live for projects.

Research and Innovation

IP Matters can help with exploitation of your research, including intellectual property, copyright, patents, and non-disclosure agreements

Support on research impact, including resources, example case studies, recording impact through VV- Impact Tracker and help with public engagement.

As part of your career development, you can access training opportunities

The ethical considerations of your project will have been considered during your application and continuing support is provided by our Research Governance team

For assistance obtaining signatures for new EU projects contact the Research Funding Managers

Enterprise Solutions can get you access to industry to achieve: links with collaborators or project partners, investment and sponsorship, access to wider resources, impact and profile-raising activities, test or study groups, guest lecturing opportunities, product and market development for CPD courses that you could deliver.

Human Resources (HR)

HR will assist you with recruiting and managing staff on your project. Visit the 'HR' page for further information. In particular, information about recruitment can be found on Human Resources - Recruitment (sharepoint.com).

If you will have international visitors during your project, you can find information here Visitors & Visiting Engagements (sharepoint.com) on due diligence and arranging their visit.

Enterprise Solutions