hi guys, can you tell me when researchers and professors, in uk universities, usually go on holiday during the summer? In particular do they work in August? bye

I think for most academics, large parts of July compromise finishing marking, doing graduations, admin work and perhaps some research. September is likely to be prep time for the year ahead. On that basis, if I was betting man I'd say August was most likely.

Why do you want to know? Are you booking your holidays?

In my experience, August is the dead month. All the academics I am in touch with always take their holidays during (and almost all of) August.

compromise...comprise, an easy mistake to make, but perhaps a freudian slip! I left my vocabulary at home this morning.