What do indirect costs cover?
Broadly speaking the costs of running the university and employing staff. This includes all centrally provided university services such as payroll, finance, security, IT support etc as well as normal office costs such as widely used office software (although not trial specific software), consumables, stationery and phone calls (although not those items directly arising from the project such as patient information literature and telephone surveys), general IT training (not training specifically related to the trial intervention), staff recruitment costs, parental leave and sick leave costs. This is not an exhaustive list and we are happy to answer queries on specific items.
