Hosting
Host organisations are vital to every Daphne Jackson Fellowship. The host acts as the fellow’s employer and provides the facilities and equipment needed to carry out research and retraining.
We work in partnership with hosts across the UK.
These include universities, research institutions and companies working in research industries. Many organisations both host and fund Daphne Jackson Fellowships.
Create opportunities
Hosts are responsible for providing the infrastructure for each fellowship and supporting some non-salary costs.
- Facilities and equipment: Hosts provide the technical and non-technical infrastructure required for each fellowship. This may include laboratory equipment, specialised technology, software and hardware, or any other tools necessary for the fellow to undertake their work.
- Non-Salary costs: These may include consumables and bench fees such as the costs of using equipment (including hire and maintenance), estates costs, and other institutional costs (sometimes referred to as directly allocated costs).
In return, hosting a Daphne Jackson Fellow allows organisations to address strategic priorities around equality, diversity and inclusion by employing talented individuals with unique perspectives and experiences, all while furthering the host’s research agenda. Our fellowships also provide hosts with the means to address technological and analytical skills shortages by retraining and upskilling motivated professionals.
How to host a fellowship
If you work for an organisation interested in hosting a fellow, we’d love to hear from you. You can email us on djmft@surrey.ac.uk for more information. All hosts are encouraged to note the following information:
- Host organisations become the employer of the fellow and are responsible for having appropriate insurances, terms and conditions of work, intellectual property rights and other associated matters. It’s important that you have this in place before you can host a fellow. We don’t have any involvement, obligations or commitments within the employment contract between the fellow and the host other than acting on an advisory basis.
- Each host has a different pay scale that determines the salary level of the fellow in relation to other employees. We’ll talk this through with you to ensure that the salary costs are covered by the funder.
Our fellowships have saved almost £40million
of gross institutional costs that may otherwise have been lost.
