Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
Eight months of declared parental leave extending an ECR's eligibility window by eight months
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A six-week summer holiday is not a career break in the funder sense
Editorial commentary
Funders’ rules differ on what counts: UKRI permits any documented break to extend the ECR window; ERC explicitly enumerates eligible breaks. Career breaks should be declared on narrative CVs as a contextual factor; failure to recognise them produces unfair comparison of outputs across uneven actual time-in-research.
References
- UKRI Career Break Policy
- ERC Eligibility Extensions for Career Breaks
Also known as
Career interruption · Time away from research
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Career break"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/career-break" />json
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "Career break",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/career-break",
"description": "A documented absence from active research work of at least three months' duration arising from parental leave, caring responsibilities, illness, disability, military service, or other personal circumstances, recognised by funders as extending early-career-researcher eligibility windows pro-rata.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/mentorship-training-and-career-stages/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/career-break",
"sameAs": [
"Career interruption",
"Time away from research"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
