Deadline: 12 March 2018
The Wellcome Trust is currently accepting applications for its Investigator Awards in Science enabling independent researchers with a compelling research vision to tackle the most important questions in science.
Benefits
The support includes:
- Research expenses
- staff
- materials and consumables
- animals
- equipment
- access charges
- research management and support costs
- travel and subsistence
- overseas allowances
- fieldwork expenses
- inflation allowance
- publication costs
- clinical research costs
- international recruitment supplement
- other costs
Funding Information
- Investigator Awards provide flexible funding of up to around £3 million which will last up to 7 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply for an Investigator Award if you’re an independent researcher with a compelling research vision who wants to tackle the most important questions in your field.
- These awards are also open to joint applications from two researchers whose complementary expertise is essential to deliver their shared vision.
- Career stage and experience
- Applications are considered from researchers throughout their independent careers. For example, you may be a newly appointed lecturer, a mid-career researcher or a senior researcher.
- If you’re in the early stages of your independent research career, you should be able to show that you can drive advances in your field of study and that you have considerable promise for the future.
- You should have a strong track record relative to your career stage of:
- leading innovative and creative programmes of research
- making important contributions to research, eg publications, patents and impacts on policy
- securing research grant funding.
- You should also be able to show that you’re developing an international reputation for excellence in your field.
- If you’re a more established researcher, you should have achieved more in terms of the originality and impact of your research.
- You should have a track record of:
- making significant contributions to research, eg publications, patents and impacts on policy
- securing sustained research support from major funding bodies
- developing and mentoring less experienced researchers.
- You should have an international reputation as a research leader in your field.
- If you’ve been away from research (eg for a career break, maternity leave, or long-term sick leave), you may be allowed for this after considering your application.
- Current situation
- You should have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract, or the guarantee of one.
- Your salary must be paid by your host organisation based in the UK, Republic of Ireland or a low- or middle-income country (apart from India).
- If you hold a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract but have to get your salary from external grant funding, you can ask for this in your application.
- You must be based in the UK or a low- or middle-income country.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website
Eligible Countries: Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Dem. Rep, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia The, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Korea, Dem. People’s Rep., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo, Rep., Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Arab Rep., El Salvador, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo ,Kyrgyz Republic , Lao PDR, Lesotho, Mauritania , Micronesia, Fed. Sts., Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea , Philippines, São Tomé and Principe, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Rep., Zambia, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Ecuador, Fiji, Gabon, Grenada, Guyana, Iran, Islamic Rep., Iraq, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, FYR , Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Namibia, Nauru, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, Russian Federation, Samoa, Serbia, South Africa, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Venezuela, RB, U.K, Republic of Ireland
For further information, please visit Wellcome Trust.