STFC fellowships: rules and regulations
Break in service
If offered a fellowship you will be allowed a break in service not more than twice during the period of the award, for periods amounting together to not more than two years, to enable time to be spent on another related activity unsupported by STFC.
Requests for breaks in service must be submitted on the appropriate form (which is available from STFC) and must be endorsed by your Head of Department. Breaks in service will not normally be permitted during the first or final years of the fellowship, unless this is on maternity or sick leave. Where STFC agrees to a break in service, STFC will not extend the duration of the Advanced Fellowship and STFC payments to the Institution will cease for the period of the break (i.e. an Advanced Fellow taking a maximum two year break in service would receive only three years of fellowship support from STFC).
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Page last updated: 27 July 2010
by Pat Carter
