Wellcome Trust: Early-career awards

09/11/2023

15/02/2024

This scheme provides 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. A Wellcome Early-Career Award provides a salary for the grantholder and up to £400,000 for research expenses. If you are eligible to request overheads or overseas allowances, we won't count these against the £400,000 limit for research expenses.

Your research can be in any discipline – including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical/allied health sciences, and public health – as long as it has the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing, and aligns with our funding remit.

Eligibility Note 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. At the point you submit your application, you must have completed a substantive period of research training relevant to your discipline. You must have: completed a PhD (for example, in the life sciences) or an equivalent higher research degree. At the point of application you must have passed your viva examination. or if you have not started a PhD or equivalent degree, at least four years' equivalent research experience (for example, in the humanities and social sciences).