Maternity provision for fixed-term post-doctoral researchers

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Dear Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,

I am trying to find out more about maternity provision for post-doctoral researchers in Cambridge and Oxford, and hope you can answer the following questions for me:

1) Does your college employ Junior Research Fellows, or have an equivalent paid fixed-term post-doctoral research position?

2) If so, are such researchers eligible for maternity leave and pay? Please give details of any existing policy, and whether it has been applied in the last five years.

3) If maternity leave is taken by a JRF or post-doctoral researcher on a fixed-term contract, is the duration of the position extended by an amount of time equivalent to the time taken as leave, so that research time and funding is not lost as a result of taking leave? Please provide any details.

Thanks in advance for any information you can give me.

Yours faithfully,

J Iqbal

Freedom of Information (Corpus Christi), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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1.    Does your college employ Junior Research Fellows, or have an
equivalent paid fixed-term post-doctoral research position? YES

 

2.    If so, are such researchers eligible for maternity leave and pay?
YES

Please give details of any existing policy, The College operates the same
policy as the University of Cambridge, details of which can be found at
[1]https://www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/policies-...

and whether it has been applied in the last five years. No, we have had no
researchers on maternity leave in the last five years.

 

3.    If maternity leave is taken by a JRF or post-doctoral researcher on
a fixed-term contract, is the duration of the position extended by an
amount of time equivalent to the time taken as leave, so that research
time and funding is not lost as a result of taking leave? Please provide
any details. YES

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Freedom of Information Act, you may complain initially to the Freedom of
Information Officer, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH.  If your
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Yours sincerely

 

Mrs K Williams

Freedom of Information Officer

Corpus Christi College

Trumpington Street

Cambridge

CB2 1RH

 

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From: J Iqbal <[FOI #542195 email]>
Sent: 06 January 2019 20:45
To: Freedom of Information (Corpus Christi) <[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Maternity provision for
fixed-term post-doctoral researchers

 

Dear Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,

I am trying to find out more about maternity provision for post-doctoral
researchers in Cambridge and Oxford, and hope you can answer the following
questions for me:

1) Does your college employ Junior Research Fellows, or have an equivalent
paid fixed-term post-doctoral research position?

2) If so, are such researchers eligible for maternity leave and pay?
Please give details of any existing policy, and whether it has been
applied in the last five years.

3) If maternity leave is taken by a JRF or post-doctoral researcher on a
fixed-term contract, is the duration of the position extended by an amount
of time equivalent to the time taken as leave, so that research time and
funding is not lost as a result of taking leave? Please provide any
details.

Thanks in advance for any information you can give me.

Yours faithfully,

J Iqbal

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