All casual worksheets should include information about the hourly rate of pay. Travel and Subsistence The purpose of a research trip is the paramount factor when the Committee is considering requests for funds to do research elsewhere. The Committee's priority is to fund travel for which the explicit purpose is to allow the researcher access to resources which are not or cannot practically be made available locally. The Committee may also provide travel funding for consultation with colleagues with whom one is collaborating, but only when certain conditions have been met. First, such a consultation has to be a very specific one about an ongoing collaborative piece of work which is being carried on jointly but separately by all parties while working at their individual home universities.
Costs are always a consideration in decisions about research travel.
Applicants are also reminded of the earlier statement that conference expenses are not eligible costs on an internal research grant. Please refer these applications to the Dean's Travel Committee in accordance with the procedures outlined in the Collective Agreement. The Committee has funded computer hardware and software purchases more in the exception than the rule. Such purchases have been allowed only when the Committee has been convinced that the requested computer equipment was essential for the proposed research to be carried out at all. The fact that an expense is an eligible and justifiable one does not mean the Committee will see fit to cover it, even if a grant is given to conduct the research.