Procedure: Editing a Research Funding entry

Introduction

• Existing Research Funding entries may be edited / updated if required.  

• Research Funding entries may be manually sorted into a logical order which will be used when generating CVs and displaying on websites.

• Each Research Funding entry on this page will be listed in a new row and will be displayed alternately in a blue / black font colour.  This formatting is only used within the Researcher Profile context and purely for ease of visual display of multiple entries.

Procedure

1. Log in to the UCT Research Portal website with your UCT network credentials.

2. In the Researcher Profiles – Home page, click Research Funding sub-category.

3. The Researcher Profiles – Research Funding page opens displaying the Research Funding listings.

Editing a research funding entry

• Click Edit next to the Research Funding entry you wish to edit.  

4. The Edit a Research Funding dialog box appears displaying the fields and their entries, edit as applicable.

• Edit the grant or contract in the Grant / Contract field.

• Edit the monetary value in the Monetary Value field.

• Edit the description or summary in the Description / Summary field.

• Edit the role in the Role field.

• Edit co-investigators in the Co-investigators field.

• Edit the applicable year or years in the Year/s field.

• If this falls into the category of engaged scholarship, ensure that the Engaged Scholarship check box is selected.

Saving an edited research funding entry

• Click Save & Close.

• The following message displays briefly: “Information was successfully updated.”

5. The Researcher Profiles – Research Funding page reopens.

6. If necessary, click up / down arrows under Change order to sort the Research Funding listing by priority.