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Who owns IRCSET laptop?

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  • 05-10-2009 2:50pm
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    fitzyfish
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭


    This is directed at those who have used their IRCSET funding to purchase a computer in their first year of research. My department are suggesting that they will be the sole owners of the computer when purchased. I was under the impression that the I would own the computer and would be able to keep it once I finished my PhD. Anyone else in this situation?


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    Red Alert
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    I suspect to some degree the issue won't really be a problem since the machine probably will be obsolete.


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    lumpwood
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    Red Alert wrote: »
    I suspect to some degree the issue won't really be a problem since the machine probably will be obsolete.

    True...most people seem to just leave them lying around when they finish anyways.


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    Red Alert
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    Assuming the machine will be approx four years old by then, especially a laptop nobody'd want it anyway. It could just get sucked into use as a control computer for an instrument or something similar....

    I'd be very surprised if you weren't let keep it. IRCSET certainly wouldn't be looking for it back I'd say: in most grants, the money has to be shown to have been spent on computer equipment (or whatever other categories that money is allocated for). The actual purchase and usage of the equipment is by the grant-holder.


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