Application form and guide to applying for a staff WUN RMP Award
1. Identify a potential project and choose your WUN overseas partner. The WUN website has a list
of WUN partners :
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The WUN website has contact details of the WUN coordinator for each partner
institution. The local coordinator will be able to find you collaborators if you do not
have an academic contact in that partner institution already.
The project should be sustainable – early plans about possible reciprocal visits,
seminars, future projects, and funding bids should be included.
Reference to departmental research strategy, the University’s international strategy
and the University’s research themes is encouraged.
When approaching your host academic, you should also copy in the local WUN
coordinator in that institution. Remind your contact that if they have any queries
about how the scheme operates locally, they can talk to their coordinator.
Please copy Helen Rajabi, York’s WUN coordinator into all correspondence.
2. The visit must take place during the 2015/16 academic year, so timescales are quite short (we will
aim to issue the call earlier for the 2016/17 year). All allocated funds must be spent by the end of
July 2016.
3. With your host partner decide on dates, duration and plan of work/project.
4. When completing the budget information, include costs for:
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travel (flights and transfers)
subsistence (accommodation and meals)
visa (if you need one)
other research costs that may be incurred
The maximum amount of funding awarded will be £2,500
In addition to the application form, you will need to provide:
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A 1000-word summary of the research you intend to undertake, as well as detail about the
benefits of the visit (for you personally, for the department and for the universities
involved); the expertise or facilities available to you; and how you propose to sustain the
relationships developed.
A supporting statement from the host academic.
A supporting statement from your Head of School or Department, also indicating the
benefits and sustainability of your proposal.
If regulatory approval is required by the recipient university (e.g. where it involves radiation or work
with animals) you must secure this before you submit your application.
The application should be put into one pdf document and sent by email to Helen.Rajabi@york.ac.uk
by Friday 30th October 2015.
A panel chaired by the PVC for Research will select the successful applicants within 4 weeks of the
deadline and you will be informed of their decision within 5 weeks of this deadline.
5. Ahead of the visit you should check:
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The process for obtaining a visa, including timelines and any extra documentation needed.
Whether your host university needs any additional documentation.
Information about York’s Insurance policies for overseas visits (only accessible to York staff).
RESEARCH MOBILITY PROGRAMME
APPLICATION FORM: Staff
Please complete and return this application, including supporting documents, as one complete
PDF document, to Helen.Rajabi@york.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 30th October 2015. Applications
received after this date will not be accepted.
Home University:
Date of application:
Host University:
Staff number:
First name:
Last name:
Department:
Position:
Applicant’s Address:
Title
Telephone No:
Proposed host school/department:
Proposed start date:
Proposed end date:
Please provide details of any research and academic links which already exist between your
department and the department in the WUN partner institution.
Details of funding applied for (please attach an extra sheet if necessary):
Funding guidelines:
 Travel and accommodation: economy airfare, internal travel costs to host institution, and
visa costs
 Research Expenses
 Subsistence
Item
Travel expenses
Subsistence costs
Detail
Total
Accommodation
Research expenses
Total claimed
Details of other
funding secured
In no more than 1,000 words please provide information on the following in an attached, signed
document
(a) summary of the research you intend to undertake, detailing proposed interactions with the
WUN partner institution
(b) the anticipated benefits of the award, both for yourself and for the universities involved
(c) any exceptional expertise or facilities available to you through this visit
(d) how you and your department propose to sustain research relationships built through your
visit
We require a supporting statement from the host academic to be attached to this application
Please print his/her name
Email address
We require a supporting statement from your Head of Department to be attached to this
application
This statement should explain the benefits to you and your department, and should indicate how the
research relationships built will be sustained after the visit.
Please print his/her
name
Email address
Statement from applicant
I wish to apply for a Worldwide Universities Network Staff RMP Award. If successful, I undertake to
observe the Award Regulations and to provide a detailed final report within 1 month of the
completion of the project.
I agree that the University and the Worldwide Universities Network may hold and process personal
information in connection with this RMP and may use my name and the information relating to this
proposed research visit for publicity purposes.
Signed:
Date: