Maternity provision for fixed-term post-doctoral researchers

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Dear Wolfson College, Oxford,

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

Anna Zubek, Wolfson College, Oxford

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Dear J Iqbal

Thank you for your FOI request. Please find below responses to your
questions:

1) Wolfson College Oxford does employ Junior Research Fellows

2) JRFs are eligible for the college maternity benefit, the details of
which are attached and which has been applied in the last five years

3) If maternity leave is taken by a JRF on a fixed-term contract, the
duration of the contract is extended by the amount of time equivalent to
the time taken as leave

 

Best wishes

Anna Zubek

HR Manager

Wolfson College

Linton Road

Oxford OX2 6UD

Tel: 01865 274132

 

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