Fellowships & Grants
Wellcome Career Development Awards
Wellcome
- mid career
- research
Description
You can apply for a Wellcome Career Development Award if you are a mid-career researcher and you are ready to lead a substantial and innovative research programme. You must aim to make a key contribution to your field by: generating significant shifts in understanding and/or developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research. During the award, we expect you to: develop your research capabilities and leadership skills support others to undertake research responsibly and promote a positive and inclusive culture start training the next generation of researchers and develop their research skills and careers. By the end of the award, you should have achieved international standing in your area of research. You should also have the skills and experience to apply for permanent positions at research organisations.