Wellcome Discovery Awards for Researchers Worldwide 2024 for Course

  •  Course
  •  21-Nov-2023
  •   Worldwide
  • $$  Varies

This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.

A Wellcome Discovery Award provides funding for research expenses. The award usually lasts for 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines, such as humanities and social science. The award may be held on a part-time basis. They will extend the duration of the award to reflect this.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • You can apply for a Wellcome Discovery Award if you are a researcher who wants to pursue bold and creative research ideas. You must aim to make a major contribution to your research field by:
    • Generating significant shifts in understanding and/or
    • Developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research.
  • You will be expected to actively promote a diverse, inclusive and supportive research environment within your team and across your organization.
  • 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 the funding remit.
  • The research can be in a single discipline or multidisciplinary.
  • An award can be held by an established researcher or a team of researchers led by an established researcher.
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Offered Benefits

We will only pay the international student fee rate for low- and middle-income nationals who are registered to study for a PhD/Research Masters in a high-income country, excluding the UK and Republic of Ireland. In all other situations, we will pay home student fees.

Application Process

Go to Wellcome on funding.wellcome.org to apply
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