Deadline: November 16th 2023 | Wellcome Career Development Awards
The Wellcome Career Development Awards are now accepting applications to reward mid-career academics from any discipline who have the ability to lead global research efforts.
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They will hone their research skills, spearhead creative projects, and produce profound shifts in knowledge that may enhance human life, health, and wellbeing.
Benefits
- A Wellcome Career Development Award covers the grantholder’s salary (if necessary) and research costs.
- The award typically lasts for 8 years, while some fields, such the humanities and social sciences, may have shorter terms.
- Part-time employment may be permitted with the award. To reflect this, they will lengthen the award’s period of validity.
- For your suggested research, you should request financing at a level and for a period that make sense.
- The prize package includes: a starting wage set by your host organisation;
- Equipment and supplies for personnel continuing professional growth and training
- Animals, equipment, and access fees
- Overheads
- Both travel and support
- Foreign allowances
- Field work costs
- Allowance for inflation
- Payment for open access
- Clinical study expenses
- Costs associated with patient and public involvement
- Additional expenses for contract research organisations
eligibility
- If you are a researcher in the middle of your career and you are prepared to direct a sizable and cutting-edge research project, you are eligible to apply for a Wellcome Career Development Award.
- By producing important shifts in thinking and creating methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools, or approaches that could advance health-related research, you must aspire to make a substantial contribution to your field.
- They anticipate you to: advance your research abilities and leadership abilities during the reward
- Start educating the upcoming generation of researchers and helping them advance their careers and research skills, and encourage others to do research properly.
- As long as it has the potential to improve human life, health, and wellbeing and is in line with the funding remit, your research can be in any field, including experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical/allied health sciences, and public health.
stage of career and experience
- You must already be conducting your own study in order to qualify.
- You must possess:
- completed one or two significant research periods after your initial training and made significant contributions to your field of study.
- At least 80% of your study time must be devoted to the award. Unless you spent time away from research owing to personal circumstances (such as a career break, maternity leave, long-term sick leave, or a chronic disease) during this time, you must have been appointed within the last three years to be eligible for permanent, open-ended, or long-term rolling contracts.
- worked part-time and research was not a requirement of the position, such as if you were a healthcare professional who switched from one field of research to another, such as from astrophysics to computational neuroscience or from environmental chemistry to social anthropology. I
- f you were based in a low- or middle-income country where it is typical to be assigned to a permanent, open-ended, or long-term rolling contract early in your research career, there might be some crossover, such as in study sites or methodology, but the transition should still be noticeable.
Hosting company
- You need sponsorship in one of the following categories from an eligible host organisation:
- A low- or middle-income nation (outside of India and China’s mainland) is the UK Republic of Ireland.
- It might be a:
- research institute, non-academic healthcare organisation, higher education institution, not-for-profit organisation.
Ineligibility
- You are ineligible to apply if you: currently hold (or have held) a comparable award at this career level (current Wellcome grantholders at an equivalent stage are an exemption to this rule) you have applied to this programme and are awaiting a response.
- You cannot apply to carry out projects that require transferring grant money into the People’s Republic of China.
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