The Daphne Jackson Trust arranges salaried, part-time Fellowships, usually held over two years, which are normally based at a university or industrial laboratory throughout the UK.
[citation needed] The Trust's Fellowship scheme has been recognised as an exemplar model for returnships; over the past 30 years, it supported over 370 Daphne Jackson Fellows return to their careers.
Drawing attention to this frustrating situation, Jackson observed, "Imagine a society that would allow Marie Curie to stack shelves in a supermarket simply because she took a career break for family reasons.
The pilot scheme enabled talented women to return to their careers in science, engineering and technology (SET)[6] after a break by offering Fellowships composed of a retraining programme linked to a challenging research or development project, with the overall focus put firmly on improving future employment potential of the individual.
The key objective was that the Fellowship should help re-establish professional expertise as well as personal confidence, within an appropriately supportive environment, with significantly improved job prospects at the end.