STEM and research careers

Landscape review of employment contracts and salary provision for academic researchers in multiple countries

14/05/2025

Wellcome Trust has commissioned The Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC), in collaboration with Technopolis, to conduct a landscape review of the following countries: the UK, Republic of Ireland, USA, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, Germany and Switzerland, on employment contracts and salary provision.

Drawing on document analysis and interviews with stakeholders, the landscape review focuses on three areas:

· the employment contracts commonly used to employ researchers
· the impact that Wellcome eligibility requirements for organisations to underwrite Co-I’s salaries has on researchers’ inclusion
· funder teaching buy-out conventions and how provision is used by organisations.

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