The Global Challenges Research Fund Science for Weather Information and Techniques (SWIFT) Programme

SWIFT Post-Doctoral Fellowships

HOME INSTITUTE ENDORSEMENT FORM

(to be submitted by the applicant’s Home Institute to the SWIFTProgramme Manager, Dr Lorraine Youds, at fore midnight onFriday, 23rd March, 2018)

  1. To be completed by the applicant

Applicant’s family name
Applicant’s first name
Fellowship type
Proposal title
SWIFT research theme
Fellowship start date
Fellowship duration
Host Institute
  1. To be completed by the Home Institute

An appropriate representative of the Home Institute must be the signatory of this form. This representative can be the Director, Dean or relevant Department Head.

The applicant named above has named your institute as their Home Institute and is submitting an application for a GCRF African SWIFT Fellowship award. Your submission of this endorsement form is required for the candidate’s application to be considered complete. The purpose of this form is for you to provide confirmation that, if successful, the candidate will be granted the required release from duties to enable them to carry out their fellowship, and to provide other information on how you will support the applicant. The information you submit will be held in confidence. Please complete this form and submit it by email attachment to the GCRF African SWIFT Programme Manager, Dr Lorraine Youds at .

Your completed Endorsement Form must be received before midnight onFriday, 23rd March, 2018. Failure to ensure the form is received by the deadline will result in the applicant not being considered for a fellowship.

2.1Please provide the following information about your institute – the ‘Home Institute’

Institute Name
Is your institute also the applicant’s Host Institute*?

(* the institute where the applicant will conduct the fellowship activities)

2.2Information about the candidate

If the candidate has not yet been awarded a PhD degree, please assess the likelihood that the candidate will be awarded their PhD before the start date of the proposed fellowship.

Low / Average / High / Unable to judge
Likelihood that candidate will be awarded their PhD before the proposed fellowship start date.

2.3Declaration of any financial support to be provided by the Home Institute

If the applicant is successful they will be awarded a grant to cover the costs of implementing their research/project proposal: including Host Institute costs, costs of travel to the Host Institute (if required), travel and related costs,salary and research costs. The Home Institute is not required to provide financial support to the fellow over the duration of the fellowship. If your institute does plan to support the applicant with financial resources during their fellowship (e.g. by maintaining a salary or graduate assistantship or by providing stipends for room and board), please give details below.

If the applicant is awarded a SWIFT Fellowship, will your institute provide the applicant with financial support? / (Yes/No)
If ‘Yes’, please provide details including an estimate of the financial support that will be provided

2.4Provision made to release the candidate from teaching/tutoring activities (only required if the proposed fellowship is to be conducted at the Home Institute).

If the application is successful it is expected that the fellowship will represent the full-time occupation of the candidate (although applications requesting a part-time fellowship to balance with childcare or caring responsibilities will also be considered). Please indicate below the provisions that will be made to release the candidate from other duties (e.g. teaching/tutoring) over the duration of the fellowship.

Provisions that will be made to release the candidate from teaching/tutoring duties
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  1. Declaration of Endorsement

To be signed by the relevant Department Head, Dean or Director of the Institute.

By supporting the candidate’s application I confirm that:

  • the applicant named above is registered/appointed at this institute;

and that, if the candidate is successful, and is applying for a Visiting Fellowship:

  • my institute will grant the applicant leave of absence for the stated duration of the fellowship;
  • my institute will support the applicant’s fellowship by arranging for a Home Institute mentor to be assigned to the candidate to maintain their links with this Institute;
  • on completion of their fellowship, my institute expects to re-instate the fellow and assist them to make use of their fellowship experience in completing/continuing their research (e.g. as part of a postgraduate programme) or other work in a similar research field to this Fellowship.

or, if the Fellowship is to be conducted at your Institute (i.e. your Institute is also the Host Institute):

  • my institute will release the candidate from teaching/tutoring duties for the duration of the fellowship (as described in section 2.4);
  • the activities planned in the applicant’s proposal are consistent with their ongoing research studies or work programme at my Institute;
  • on completion of their fellowship, my institute will assist the fellow in making use of their fellowship experience in completing/continuing their research (e.g. as part of a postgraduate programme) or in other work in a similar research field to this Fellowship.

Person to be assigned mentor to the applicant (only required if the application is for a Visiting Fellowship)
Full name
Title
Telephone number
Fax number
Email address
Signature
Full name of signatory
Title
Telephone number
Fax number
Email address
Date of signature

Thank you for supporting the GCRF African Fellowships by completing this form.