Deadline: 21-Jun-22
Nominations are now open for the Wellcome Early-Career Awards to provide funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity.
Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, they will be ready to lead their own independent research programme.
Categories
The award includes:
- a basic salary (determined by your host organisation)
- relocation allowance
- staff
- continuing professional development and training
- materials and consumables
- animals
- equipment
- access charges
- overheads
- travel and subsistence
- overseas allowances
- fieldwork expenses
- inflation allowance
- open access charges
- clinical research costs
- public engagement and patient involvement costs
- contract research organisations
- other costs
Funding Information
- Level of funding: Salary and up to £400,000 for research expenses
- Duration of funding: Usually 5 years, but may be less for some disciplines, and longer if held on a part-time basis
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply to this scheme if you are an early-career researcher and you are ready to design, plan and deliver your own innovative research project that aims to:
- advance understanding in your field and/or
- develop methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research.
- You must have:
- completed a PhD (for example, in the life sciences) or an equivalent higher research degree or
- at least four years’ equivalent research experience (for example, in the humanities and social sciences).
- Host organisation
- You must have sponsorship from an eligible host organisation in one of the following:
For more information, visit https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/early-career-awards#how-to-apply-ebb4