Travel abroad Study travel or holiday travel overseas If you are planning to travel overseas during your award we strongly recommend that you take out adequate insurance to cover your possessions, accidents and illness. Professional Fellows – your award is for a Fellowship in the United Kingdom and it is expected that your time will be spent here. If you wish to be absent from the UK for reasons not involved with your programme, such visits will be at your own expense and your stipend will be suspended unless there are special circumstances approved by the ACU. The ACU and your host organisation must be informed in advance about all absences from the UK. Academic Fellows – your award is for a Fellowship in the United Kingdom and it is expected that your time will be spent here, unless your programme has an element of overseas travel (for example, attendance at a conference) which has been previously approved by the ACU, and which the study travel grant may be used towards. It is important that you notify in advance both your ACU Programme Officer and your university of any overseas travel and that you leave an address at which you can be reached in an emergency. You should ensure that your passport and residence permit are valid for a reasonable period from your expected date of return and that your Notification of Award is available to be shown, if required, on returning to the UK. If for any reason you need to be absent from the United Kingdom, you must seek prior approval from your ACU Programme Officer. It is not likely to be granted except for short absences made necessary by special circumstances. In the case of a long absence, the award and all payments under it will normally be suspended or terminated.
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