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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Just to remind you this needs to be done for the end of the week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Erling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">===============================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Professor Erling Riis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Head of Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Department of Physics, tel: 0141-5483490<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Strathclyde University,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">John Anderson Building, e-mail:
<a href="mailto:e.riis@strath.ac.uk">e.riis@strath.ac.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Glasgow, G4 0NG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The Department is a partner in SUPA, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Tim Faehnrich [mailto:noreply@qemailserver.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 31 January 2017 17:07<br>
<b>To:</b> Erling Riis <e.riis@strath.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Time Allocation Schedule (TAS) - now released<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><em><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Time Allocation Survey (TAS) – now released</span></b></em><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The first TAS has been issued. Unlike previous years the survey is now done through Qualtrics, please follow this link to the suruvey: </span></em><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://strath.eu.qualtrics.com/SE?Q_DL=2mmdyNWwcXlqhh3_1C9AnOvYK2k067H_MLRP_9KPyHGKpkGVpCol&Q_CHL=email">Take
the survey</a> or copy and paste the following URL into your internet browser: <a href="https://strath.eu.qualtrics.com/SE?Q_DL=2mmdyNWwcXlqhh3_1C9AnOvYK2k067H_MLRP_9KPyHGKpkGVpCol&Q_CHL=email"><span style="font-style:normal">https://strath.eu.qualtrics.com/SE?Q_DL=2mmdyNWwcXlqhh3_1C9AnOvYK2k067H_MLRP_9KPyHGKpkGVpCol&Q_CHL=email</span></a></span></em><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The questionnaire should be complete by </span></em><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">17 February 2017</span></i></strong><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.
The background to this exercise was detailed in previous correspondence and further information can be found on the fEC web-pages (<a href="https://proxy.qualtrics.com/proxy/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.strath.ac.uk%2Ffec&token=YMFhagBs%2FH2l2a6kAoU%2BFkDxK%2B3ejiszzlKI94zo4g4%3D"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.strath.ac.uk/fec</span></a>).</span></em><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Information from the TAS exercise will be used to allocate the costs of staff across the activities of Teaching, Research and Other for the annual Transparency (TRAC) return to the Funding
Council. This then forms the basis of calculating the charge-out rates for Estates and Indirect costs which are included in the costing of externally funded research projects. The information is also now used to inform the TRAC for Teaching (TRAC T) return
to the Funding Councils and may therefore influence future funding for teaching. It is essential that the information obtained from the TAS is as accurate as possible. Staff are asked to give as accurate an account of their activities as possible when completing
the TAS. Please note the information obtained will not be used for any other purpose than the TRAC return.</span></em><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Staff are reminded that:</span></em><br>
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<em><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">-this is the first of three TAS exercises to be completed in 2016/17</span></b></em><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The data collection periods will be –</span></em><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1 October 2016 – 31 January 2017</span></em><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1 February 2017 – 31 May 2017</span></em><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1 June 2017 – 30 September 2017</span></em></span></i><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A period of approximately two weeks will then be provided for completion of the questionnaire, e.g. the first TAS questionnaire will be released on 1 February 2014 with a deadline for completion
of 17 February 2014</span></em><br>
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<em><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- this is a mandatory requirement placed on the University</span></b></em><br>
<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The TAS is used to allocate staff costs to activity. If you are a member of Academic, Research or Knowledge Exchange. Staff whose salary is fully funded by an external research or other services
rendered funder you do not need to complete the TAS.</span></em><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It is vital that staff complete the TAS as we have to comply with the fEC Guidance and continue to apply for funding from Research Councils and UK Government Departments on a fEC basis. The
University will face financial sanctions if the fEC Guidance is not met.</span></em><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Research Councils have introduced a Quality Assurance and Validation (QAV) process to ensure that universities comply with all aspects of the fEC Guidance when completing the TRAC return.
Because staff costs are the single largest cost for the University, the TAS is an essential part of the TRAC and the University could lose a considerable sum of money if financial sanctions are applied.</span></em><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- the TAS returns will be held confidentially and will be used solely used for TRAC</span></strong></span></i><br>
<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The TAS will ask staff to identify how their time has been spent during the previous four months over a number of activities. I appreciate that this task will inevitable involve a degree of
judgement and estimates will be acceptable.</span></em><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- further details are available from the fEC web-pages at </span></strong><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://proxy.qualtrics.com/proxy/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.strath.ac.uk%2Ffec&token=YMFhagBs%2FH2l2a6kAoU%2BFkDxK%2B3ejiszzlKI94zo4g4%3D"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">www.strath.ac.uk/fec</span></strong></a></span></em></span></i><br>
<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The website includes information on the background to fEC, detailed guidance notes for the completion of the TAS and a list of FAQs. There are links within the questionnaire to notes on the
various activity headings. Please note that time should not be allocated to the support headings unless it is appropriate to do so.</span></em><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If you have any queries which cannot be answered by referring to the website, please email
<a href="mailto:tas-submissions@strath.ac.uk">tas-submissions@strath.ac.uk</a></span></em><br>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Your support is greatly appreciated</span></em><br>
<em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></em><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></em></span></i><br>
<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Professor David Littlejohn</span></em><br>
<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Chair of the fEC Working Group</span></em><br>
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<strong>Follow this link to the Survey:</strong><br>
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