I'm fairly sure the student in question was EPSRC funded, but thinking back the issue may have been related to breast-feeding arrangements and the time that would need to be taken off in order to comply with WHO guidelines. Certainly a few years later when a different colleague had children the Informatics department was strikingly supportive of enabling her to breast-feed at work and that may have been the up-shot of the difficulties encountered by this PhD student.
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Date: 2014-05-05 10:01 am (UTC)