The AHRC have announced the successor to the Research Leave Scheme; the announcement is reproduced below. Full documentation should be available from the AHRC website soon.
A good number of the suggestions contained in the BPA proposal (which you can read here) have been taken up, for example flexibility with respect to the % of time bought out and the length of the award, the decoupling from institutional research leave, and the early-career route, with specific mention of mentoring and career development. (We won’t know how many of our other proposals have been taken up until the full details are released.)
