Medical Sciences Internal Fund: Family Leave
The Medical Sciences Internal Fund can be used for bridging salary support to cover the costs associated with research staff who take maternity/shared parental/adoption leave whilst employed on an externally funded research grant. Applications to this scheme must be submitted by a Principal Investigator of the relevant external research grant.
To be eligible to apply to the Medical Sciences Internal Fund for maternity/shared parental/adoption leave bridging costs:
- the staff member must be currently employed on an externally funded research grant.
- the staff member must be taking at least 6 months of leave with at least 3 months of that leave in the duration of the grant.
Under these circumstances the Medical Sciences Internal Fund will consider applications for up to three months (FTE) of salary support to contribute to the cost of leave, in exceptional circumstances a longer period of support may be considered.
Where the member of staff taking leave is the PI, up to three months of salary support may be used to employ a lab manager or technician or to provide 'acting up' funds to a senior member of the group.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your application online via the Internal Research Award Management System (IRAMS) by midday on Tuesday 17th October 2017.
Guidance in the form of quick reference guide (QRG) documents for applicants, departmental approvers and administrators can be found on Research Support pages.
Applications must be reviewed online by departmental approvers and, where approved, submitted to the Committee for review.
There is no application deadline for Family Leave requests. Further details on this scheme can be found on the Medical Sciences Internal Fund homepage. Applications are expected to have a turnaround time of 6 weeks.