[Centre] Work in the bid

[Cubitt S.R.]

Hi Franco and colleagues


I will be discussingthis with members of the Southampton research office
shortly - basically they have asked me - as the only person not on leave -
to draft an expression of interest. This will have to be quite open: we
must involve other interest groups in the university; and there may be
constraints on links with other UK institutions

On the positive side, we are near fixing a public debate between Lawrence
Lessig and Ian Hargreaves, the author of the Digital Britain report that
started al this



Here are Diana Galpin's notes; followed by her response to my suggestion
that Volker might be the director. I need to know the legal standing of
P2P (registered charoty / trust / not-for-profit / country/ies of
incirporation etc for these pruposes; also Volker I am presuming you are
freelance for these purposes: can you send me a CV

I have a skype conference with the admin team this morning at 11.30/12 BST

Sean



Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:06

Sounds a good result. We do need to be careful about what and how much we
expect P2P to do as from the looks of things they are an international
organisation. Now that is fine but we may not be able to flow grant monies
to them..
 
Niki P checked with AHRC and their response was that an international
company could participate in Œmutually beneficial¹ hub based activities
that were badged under the heading of Œinternational cooperation¹ and paid
for using the grant.  The reciprocity would arise from the fact  the
company might be making a contribution to the project (indirectly) through
their participation and bringing new knowledge/expertise into the arena.
However, it would not be possible to pay an international company for
other goods and services or enter into a contracting/sub-contracting
relationship on a one-to-one basis using AHRC grant monies.
 
Of course that was with respect to them being a companyŠ are they? Before
we can get definitive advice from AHRC can you confirm what type of
organisation they are and in what capacity you would expect them to be
involved?
 
If you are going ahead with a telecom probably worth including Nikki
Matthews as she probably has most capacity to provide the RIS support to
you at the moment.
 
Kind Regards
 
Diana
 
 
Diana Galpin 
Senior Legal Adviser
Research & Innovation Services
Direct Tel: 023 8059 8673
Mobile: 07979852362
Fax: 023 8059 8671 
www.southampton.ac.uk/business

Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:49


Sean
 
Careful on the automatic ³employ Volker as a director² front being your
easy fix as any role would need to be advertised externally following
usual University of Southampton HR and recruitment policiesŠ I am also not
entirely sure whether due to limitations on our insurance, health & safety
risks & complexities of then having to adopt local employment laws etc
that we would employ someone to be permanently based overseas
 
Sorry not trying to put barriers in the way but help guide you to what is
possible/not!
 
KR
DIana



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