Wellcome Accelerator Awards 2025 (up to £200,000) – YOA

Deadline: July 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Wellcome Accelerator Awards 2025. This scheme will help researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage within the UK to undertake actions that put them in a stronger place to attain their subsequent profession stage inside academia. The funding can be utilized for analysis or analysis-adjoining actions, resembling coaching, secondments, and networking.

Whether you’re looking to collect preliminary knowledge, attend specialist coaching, full a secondment, construct collaborative networks, or put together excessive-impression publications or funding proposals, this scheme is designed to be versatile. You can suggest a variety of analysis or analysis-adjoining actions that align along with your ambitions and can strengthen your educational profile.

Funding

• This prestigious scheme affords up to £200,000 for mission bills, alongside the applicant’s full wage (if required), for a funding interval of up to 2 years.

Eligibility

The lead applicant should: 

• Self-identify as being from a:
  • Black heritage background, together with a blended heritage background. For instance, Black African; Black Caribbean; Black Other; Mixed background (should embody Black African, Black Caribbean or different Black backgrounds).
  • Bangladeshi heritage background, together with a blended heritage background. For instance, Bangladeshi Other; Mixed background (should embody Bangladeshi backgrounds).
  • Pakistani heritage background, together with a blended heritage background. For instance, Pakistani Other; Mixed background (should embody Pakistani backgrounds).
• Currently be working in or ordinarily resident within the UK.
• Have accomplished a substantive interval of analysis coaching related to their self-discipline by the point they submit the application. You should have both:
  • Completed a PhD (for instance, within the life sciences) or an equal increased analysis diploma, at a UK establishment. You should have handed your viva examination by the application deadline. Or,
  • If you haven’t began a PhD or equal diploma, no less than 4 years’ equal analysis expertise (for instance, within the humanities and social sciences) at a UK establishment.

Application

The subsequent application deadline is July 15, 2025, and all submissions should be made by means of the Wellcome Funding Platform. A useful data webinar will probably be held on 3 June 2025 at 11:00 BST, the place the Wellcome workforce will information candidates by means of the method and reply questions.

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For extra data, go to Wellcome Accelerator Awards.