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Projects
- Why only R* financial codes?
- What do I do if funded project information is incorrect in Pure?
- Adding additional information to funded projects
- Adding non-funded projects
- Visibility
Your personal overview in Pure will display details of your funded research projects and applications that have been imported from University financial systems.
Information about funded research projects are loaded automatically into Pure from the University Finance Systems. Approximately 10 years of historical information about research grants (those with an R* finance code) have been put into Pure and new projects will be added regularly from the University Finance systems. Principal Investigators will have access to view and add additional information to the funded projects that they are listed as being the PI on.
A funded project will always be linked to at least one application/funding within Pure. It will include basic details about the project including high-level details of project spend information. Please note that accurate and detailed project spend information should always be viewed in the Financial Reporting with Business Objects generated by the Finance Services teams.
Why only R* financial codes?
We realise that some relevant projects may not currently exist in Pure because they are coded as something other than R* in the University finance systems. In time we intend to add additional types of projects into Pure, for example studentships and consultancy, but due to issues with the way these types of accounts are stored it is currently not possible to automatically bring them into Pure. We will work with Finance Services to look into the feasibility of bringing these types of accounts into Pure in the future.
What do I do if funded project information is incorrect in Pure?
Information on funded projects which comes from University finance systems is not able to be edited in Pure. If any information is incorrect it must be updated in the finance systems. In the first instance please contact Pure Support and we will look into it.
Why doesn’t the project spend breakdown in Pure match that of Business Objects?
Pure is not the place for financial management of your research project. Pure does include some basic information about project spend but for accurate, up-to-date information please use your Business Objects reports supplied by Finance Services - Go to Financial Reporting with Business Objects.
Adding additional information to funded projects
The basic details about funded research projects will be generated from information already held in University finance systems. Additional information can be added to these projects in Pure in order to promote and record a better picture of the research that is being carried out.
Principal Investigators will have access to view and edit the funded projects that they are listed as being the PI on. Click on the project that you wish to edit. You will be able to add the following additional information to a funded project in Pure.
- Description: Descriptive text including lay descriptions and key findings - these may be viewable on the University web site in due course.
- Project website links
- Participants: Additional project participants, e.g. researchers, co-investigators, can be added to the project in Pure. Once a person has been added to a project as a participant, they are able to edit the details of that project. Select Add person... to add an internal or external person and select their role on the project from a drop down list. Add contributing/collaborating organisations by selecting Add organisation....
- Add Relations: Create links between the project and other content in Pure, for example, linking research outputs to the project. See Adding relations guide
- Change the project visibility to ‘public’ to make the basic non-financial details visible on the Explore Bristol Research website.More about visibility…
Remember to 
when you have finished editing the project.
Adding non-funded projects
All Pure personal users are able to add non-funded projects to Pure. These are research projects which have not gone through the University financial books. Examples are research projects you are working on that have not had funding, or projects that you are contributing to where the finances are being held at another institution.
A new window will open where you can add details and links to other information in Pure about your non-funded project.
- Description: Descriptive text including lay descriptions and key findings - these may be viewable on the University web site in due course.
- Project website links
- Participants: Additional project participants, e.g. researchers, co-investigators, can be added to the project in Pure. Once a person has been added to a project as a participant, they are able to edit the details of that project. Select Add person... to add an internal or external person and select their role on the project from a drop down list. Add contributing/collaborating organisations by selecting Add organisation....
- Add Relations: Create links between the project and other content in Pure, for example, linking research outputs to the project. See Adding relations guide
Visibility
Change the project visibility to ‘public’ to make the basic non-financial details visible on the Explore Bristol Research web site. More about visibility…
Remember to when you have finished editing the project.
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