Who is covered by the Roberts Agenda?
UK Research Council funded members of staff on early-career grades (around Grade 7 or RAIA or equivalent – at any time to any FTE fraction over the year 01 Oct to 30 Sep in question) working on a fixed-term project. Research Council’s UK have updated their guidance and as a result there are minor changes to those who are covered by the Roberts’ Agenda. The Research Councils insist that Roberts’ support is provided to all appropriate staff, as outlined below. The original intention of the Roberts’ Review, the thrust of “The Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of less favourable treatment) Regulations 2002”, the new Concordat, and particularly the UK Research Councils; is to support early career staff with fixed-term funding. So these may not necessarily all be ‘Research Staff’ but might also include some technical staff, computing staff and others.
