The School is prepared to consider applications from members of the staff for travel leave. Such leave may be granted in order that applicants may undertake a journey which is of specific value either to their research or to their teaching. Travel leave is rarely requested. For further information, please contact your HR Adviser key contacts.
Salary
The grant of travel leave will, in general, be without reduction of salary or allowances, save that the Director may determine that there be made from the applicants' salary or allowances a deduction equivalent to any payment receivable by them from some external source which in their opinion covers or partially covers expenditure that would ordinarily be met out of the applicants' salary and allowances.
Departmental Duties
Travel leave will be granted on the understanding that the teaching duties of absent teachers will be shared by their colleagues and that no expenditure will be incurred by the School in engaging additional teaching help for the purpose.
Application Process
All applications for leave are considered on an individual basis. Applications must be made on the form available from the HR. The member of staff should complete the relevant part of the form and send it to the Head of Department and (if relevant) to the Head of the Centre or Institute concerned.
The Head of Department will complete the section of the form relating to the implications for departmental resources, and will make a recommendation. The case will then be considered by the Appointments Committee, which is responsible for ensuring that the standard of work in the School will not suffer as a result of the proposed arrangements, and will take into account the total amount of leave granted to members of the Department concerned.
If the request is approved, the papers will be passed to the APRC, which is responsible for the allocation of resources.