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The Daphne Jackson Trust

The Daphne Jackson Trust is an independent UK charity which offers flexible, part-time, paid fellowships to scientists, engineers and technologists who have taken a career break of two or more years for family, caring or health reasons.

Fellowships are normally two years in length and based at a university or industrial laboratory throughout the UK. Fellows undertake a supervised research project and tailored retraining programme. The fellowships are designed to significantly increase employability and remove the disadvantages associated with a career break.

The Trust has a 96% success rate in returning fellows to science, engineering or technology careers and had worked with over 200 fellows in 2012.

The Daphne Jackson Trust now relies on sponsors and donors to carry on its work. Sponsors include The UK research councils: EPSRC, Natural Environment Research Council , BBSRC , Medical Research Council (UK) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

History
The fellowship scheme was started by Professor Daphne Jackson, the first female professor of Physics in the UK. Over the course of her career, she met many clever and highly-qualified scientists who were reduced to taking low-level jobs because they had taken a career break. Deciding that this was a waste of talent and investment, in 1985 Jackson began a pilot scheme that enabled women to return to their careers.

The pilot scheme enabled talented women to return to their careers in SET after a break by offering fellowships composed of a retraining programme linked to a challenging research or development project, with the overall focus put firmly on improving future employment potential of the individual. The key objective was that the fellowship should help re-establish professional expertise as well as personal confidence, within an appropriately supportive environment, with significantly improved job prospects at the end. A total of 27 fellows successfully completed fellowships during the pilot scheme, which ran during the late 1980s. Professor Daphne Jackson left a legacy after her untimely death in 1991, which enabled the Daphne Jackson Trust to be formed in 1992. The physicist Professor Betty Johnson was a major force in the establishment of the Daphne Jackson Trust. Betty had been one of the first Daphne Jackson fellows in 1986 at Imperial College, London. The Trust named its 100th fellow in 2002 and has gone on to work with more than 200 returners. The Trust took its first male fellow in 2003, and now works with both men and women.

Eligibility for a Daphne Jackson Fellowship
To be eligible to apply for a Daphne Jackson Fellowship applicants must at least meet the following criteria: A career break of at least two years’ duration taken for family, caring or health reasons A good first degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) At least 3 years in research prior to career break and / or PhD qualification Resident in the UK with the right to remain in the UK indefinitely Good command of English (spoken and written) Computer skills

The Trust makes a personal evaluation of each applicant drawing on the personal background and experience of the applicant and the potential benefit of an award to their future career.

Governance
A board of Trustees governs and controls the affairs of the Daphne Jackson Trust. Trustees are all eminent scientists and engineers: Dame Glynis Breakwell (Chair of Trustees), Dame Fiona Caldicott, Professor Rob Eason, Professor Lynne Frostick, Dame Julia Goodfellow, Mr Philip Greenish , Ms Wendy Harle, Dr Robert Hawley, Dame Louise Johnson, Professor Nigel Mason, Dr Jan Peters Dr Mary Phillips, Mrs Janet Purnell, Professor Margaret Rayman, Professor Sibel Roller-Walach, Mr Richard Rooley FREng, Professor Edward Smith, Professor John Wood An administration team looks after the fellowships and all day-to-day operations

The Daphne Jackson Trust was established as a Charity in 1992, Charity Number 1009605. The Trust was incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee in 2008. The Charity Number was changed and its new status became effective from 1st December 2008.

Registered by the Charity Commission as the Daphne Jackson Memorial Fellowships Trust with Charity Number 1125867. [ Registered at Companies House with a Certificate of Incorporation of a Private Limited Company with Company Number 6621472. Registered Offices: Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH.