Part V - TRAC fEC

Section C: Estimating researcher costs

Chapter C.1 Named researchers

1. Academic and research staff on the project costing schedules should include all appropriate academic and research staff, i.e. Principal Investigators, co-investigators and Research Assistants. The staff should be named where possible, or a grade included with reference to the use of pool staff, or staff recruitment.
2. The costing schedule should also include the names of Fellows, emeritus professors, visiting staff from industry, clinicians and clinical academics, as appropriate, irrespective of whether they are paid a salary through the HEI, and irrespective how much of this salary is sponsored/funded (or by whom). (It would be important to identify all relevant expertise being provided to a project so that sponsors or their representatives, e.g. Research Councils’ Peer Review Panels, can better understand the nature of the project. However, this process is unlikely to be given added value by inclusion of anyone with less than 0.05 FTE allocated to any one project.)
3. PGR students are not members of the academic or research staff. However, if their studentship is based on their input to a particular project and this is recognised by the sponsor (e.g. some project studentships), then their names should also be included.