Maternity provision for fixed-term post-doctoral researchers

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Dear Lucy Cavendish 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

Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

To J Iqbal
By email: <[FOI #542217 email]>

Our reference: f2019-001 Maternity provision for JRFs

Following your recent FOI request, set out below, I am responding on behalf
of Lucy Cavendish College as follows:

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

We do have Junior Research Fellows but they are not employees of the
College, rather they have a letter of appointment.

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.

There is no policy in place and no Research Fellow has in the last five
years taken maternity leave or pay.

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.

If it were requested, we would certainly consider extending the contract by
the equivalent time taken on maternity leave.

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Yours sincerely,
Alison Vinnicombe

Ms Alison A Vinnicombe | Registrar & Fellow
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