Call 2 Updated Guidelines and other news

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Dear TAFs,

UPDATED GUIDELINES
Please find attached updated versions of the TAF Administrators Guide (please pay particular attention to the Applicant Feedback section in page 4) and the USP Scorer guidelines (please forward to your USP members).

TECHNICAL ISSUE FOR SCORERES
I can see that a lot of scoring has started already. We have been made aware of an issue with the way that applicant's past publication record is being displayed in the 'Top 10 recent publications' section of the proposals. The site is removing carriage returns so that the text is difficult to read. We have reported the issue and are waiting for it to be fixed. I will keep you updated on this.

SCORER COMMENTS
In Call 1 we noticed quite a few scorers were not leaving comments for applications they scored, or were only leaving one word answers. This is not adequate. The scorers must leave informative comments about their assessment of the project. This is for the benefit of the rest of the USP, the TAF Admin (who use these comments to formulate feedback to applicants), and also NHMMT who often receive queries directly from applicants regarding the scoring. Please reiterate this to your USP members.

CALL 2 BUDGET & APPLICANT REPORT
We are experiencing a few technical issues with reports from the SYNTHESYS database, as such we have not been able to export a definitive report of eligible applications yet. We aim to get this to you as early as possible next week. At the same time we will re-run the algorithm based on Call 2 application numbers and inform you of your respective budget for Call 2.

Any queries then do not hesitate to contact synthesys@nhm.ac.uk<mailto:synthesys@nhm.ac.uk> .

(N.B. Please be aware that any emails sent to taf@synthesys3.myspecies.info<mailto:taf@synthesys3.myspecies.info> are forwarded to the entire TAF mailing list).

Best wishes,
Harry

Harry Rousham
Grants and Contracts Manager
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD, UK
Tel: (+44) (0)207 942 5019
Fax: (+44) (0)207 942 5841
E-mail: h.rousham@nhm.ac.uk<mailto:h.rousham@nhm.ac.uk>
www.nhm.ac.uk/science-consulting<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science-consulting>

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