FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES
Application for sabbatical leave or dispensation from lecturing and other teaching obligations for faculty appointments (e.g. URLs, not ULs)
When complete, this form should be returned to Thomas Hall, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane ()
After each period of leave granted, staff are asked to submit a report on activities undertaken during the leave (see Statutes, 2000, pp. 372 4), which is passed to the faculty board.
1.Name of applicant ......
2.Title/Position ......
3.Other appointment (e.g. college, RIC)......
4.Leave applied for:
Term(s) ......
5.Purpose (including any ‘outside’ appointments, research fellowships, etc.)[1] Please provide a brief outline of the research you will undertake during your period of leave:
6.College leave[2]
(Paid) Term(s)...... Granted/Applied for/Not applicable
(Unpaid) Term(s)...... Granted/Applied for/Not applicable
7.Substitute teaching
(a)Please comment on whether there would be any need for substitute teaching under the body to whom you are responsible for your teaching duties, in the form of
Lectures ......
Classes ......
Other (e.g. tutorials) ……………………………………………………………………………………..
How do you propose that this teaching be covered, and by whom (please include any cost implications and an indication of how these costs will be covered – eg. an outside grant, a trust fund, other internal funding)
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(b)Do you need the approval of any other body to take this leave? Yes/No
If yes, please specify which body, and provide evidence that approval has been granted:
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8.Supervision of graduate students
Do you intend to continue supervising your graduate students during the leave? Yes/No/Not applicable
If no, please confirm that alternative arrangements are being/have been formally approved
9Examining
(a)Have you already accepted nomination as a public examiner during this period?[3] Yes/No
(b)If yes, would you still be able to act if leave were granted? Yes/No
10. Conferral with colleagues in the subject area
Please state what steps you have taken to confer with relevant colleagues about the proposed leave and proposed arrangements for substitute teaching:
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Signed (Applicant)...... Date......
Statement to be completed by the Chair of the Faculty Board
I confirm that the arrangements for substitute teaching and other duties are satisfactory.
Signed (Chairman)...... Date......
This confirmation will only be valid if permission for leave is forthcoming from any other relevant employer (e.g. college, RIC)
[1] It is particularly important to refer to any consultancy held during leave as the University expects to issue a disclaimer of liability in such cases (and to see a copy of the proposed contract if this does not conform to the University’s standard form, a copy of which can be supplied).
[2] Please specify for which terms you have applied for or been granted leave. In the case of college leave, it is assumed that you have ensured that there will be no teaching or other difficulties on the college side if the university leave is granted.
[3] A person whose duties include the duty of acting as examiner or assessor is required so to act ‘as and when requested to do so by a nominating committee or other competent body … unless he or she can show reasonable cause, to the satisfaction of the Vice Chancellor and Proctors, why on a particular occasion he should not do so’. Such persons who have already accepted nomination but who wish not to act during sabbatical leave must therefore make separate application to the Proctors as soon as possible, since no application for leave or dispensation will be approved in such cases until the application for release from the examining obligation is resolved.