This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who wish to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant changes in understanding that could improve human life, health and well-being.
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A Wellcome Discovery Award provides funding for research expenses. The award usually lasts 8 years, but can be shorter for some disciplines, such as humanities and social sciences. The award can be carried out on a part-time basis. They will extend the duration of the award to reflect this.
Eligibility
- You can apply for a Wellcome Discovery Award if you are a researcher who wants to pursue bold and creative research ideas. You should aim to make a major contribution to your field of research:
- generating significant changes in understanding and/or
- develop methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that can benefit health research.
- You are expected to actively promote a diverse, inclusive and supportive research environment within your team and across your organisation.
- Your research can be in any discipline - including science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), experimental medicine, humanities and social sciences, clinical/allied health sciences and public health - as long as it has the potential to improve human life, health and well-being, and is aligned with the funding mission.
- Research can be in a single discipline or multidisciplinary.
- An award can be carried out by an established researcher or a team of researchers led by an established researcher.
Evaluation criteria
They will analyse your research proposal, skills and experience and research environment.
Your research proposal
To be competitive, your research proposal will be:
- Bold. The aim is to provide a significant change in understanding and/or provide a significant advance over existing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques. It has the potential to stimulate new and innovative research.
- Creative. Your proposed approach is new - it develops and tests new concepts, methods or technologies, or combines existing ideas and approaches in a new way.
- High quality. It is well designed, clear and supported by evidence and the proposed outcomes/results are feasible.
Your skills and experience (candidates and co-applicants)
They'll analyse it:
- their research results and contributions to the research community
- their previous contributions and plans for the development of team members and other researchers
- your leadership and management skills, and how you plan to develop them during the award
- How the programme will be managed and conducted
- your rationale for a team approach, the composition of the team (including your approach to diversity, inclusion and career stage) and the contribution of each team member.
Your research environment
They'll analyse it:
- how it will contribute to your organisation's strategic objectives
- how your research environment(s) will help you develop your research capabilities and leadership and management skills
- their experience and plans to contribute to a positive and inclusive research culture.
Deadline: 21 November 2023
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