This weekend has been mostly about home projects. I ordered a shelving system off Amazon UK for storing towels and other items in the bathroom. It wasn’t able to be shipped directly from the UK to Ireland, for whatever reasons, so I had to use my ReShip forwarding service (the same one I use in the U.S., they also operate out of the UK and Canada). I wouldn’t have gone to the extra trouble and...
I’ve wrapped up the first week of my new job with University College Dublin (UCD). It’s been a lot of onboarding tasks, system access requests, and some initial training on research grant financial reporting. Today I paid a visit to campus so that I could pick up a laptop, external monitor, keyboard and mouse. There were very few people around due to COVID-19 restrictions and the...
My first couple of days in the new job with University College Dublin (UCD) have gone well. It’s a Financial Administrator position in UCD’s Research Finance Office, one of the departments under the Bursar / VP of Finance. My primary responsibility is to oversee grant reporting for research funding from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme. Currently, UCD has about 200...