Liz Shaw

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MEDICAL HUMANITIES AT THE WELLCOME TRUST FUNDING
OPPORTUNITIES

• Liz Shaw
• Jacob Leveridge
• Sue Crossley
• Nils Fietje

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• Agenda
• Remit
• History of Medicine
• Biomedical Ethics
• Research Resources in Medical History
• Types of Funding
• Related funding streams activities
• Public Engagement
• Conferences
• The broader Medical Humanities

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History of Medicine

• We support research into the historical study of
  all factors affecting the medical and health
  experience of people and animals in all
  countries and at all periods.

The surgeon Capiomont stitching the ear of
General Oudinot at the Battle of Wagram,
1809 Watercolour by Francois Pils.
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Biomedical Ethics

• We fund research into ethical issues that arise
  in the development and delivery of healthcare or
  the use of medical techniques in non-healthcare
  contexts.

Composite computer artwork illustrating aspects
of biomedical research By Neil Leslie
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Research Resources

• This scheme supports preservation, cataloguing
  and digitisation projects for significant medical
  history collections in UK libraries and archives.

Photograph of Broadmoor Asylum Staff 1885
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Types of funding

• Strategic awards HOM BE
• Enhancement awards HOM BE
• University awards HOM BE
• Programme grants HOM
• Project grants HOM BE BE(DC) RRMH
• International collaborative grants HOM
• Research leave HOM BE
• Fellowships HOM BE
• Clinical fellowships HOM BE
• Phd studentships HOM BE BE(DC)
• Masters HOM BE
• Symposia HOM BE BE(DC)
• Travel grants HOM BE BE(DC)
• Public engagement HOM
• Dissemination awards BE BE(DC)
• only as part of a Strategic Award
• only for clinical fellows or as part of a
  Strategic Award
• only as part of Strategic and Enhancement
  Awards

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• Public engagement
• Supporting projects that aim to inform and
  inspire the public about biomedical science and
  its social contexts.

Contribution to the costs of an inter-school
debating competition run by the Institute of
Ideas. One third of the debates were on
biomedical topics.
BRCA2 gene expressed over 1 mile of The National
Cycle Network from Great Shelford to
Addenbrookes Hospital
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Conferences Bioethics Summer School 2009 in
India on the topic of Sex, Gender and
Ethics Research Resources Winter Conference
December 08 was in Dublin on the topic of
Improving Access to History of Medicine
Collections through Preservation, Stewardship and
Public Engagement Next year
Venice? PhD Students day PE Grants
Workshops
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Broadening Medical Humanitiesat the Trust

• The medical humanities can be described as the
  exploration and explanation of human experience
  with respect to medicine and health', and
  involves the application to medical education and
  medical practice of a multidisciplinary field of
  humanities.

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..a range of collaborating disciplines
history bioethics anthropology demography
theology sociology politics economics
health care general medicine
government social science geography
philosophy veterinary science
classics statistics epidemiology archivists
conservators librarians psychology psychiatry
neurology public health environmental
health population studies sociology
paediatrics infectious disease
architecture international relations peace
studies literature law gender
studies bioarchaeology urban studies art
history languages ..
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Nils Fietje n.fietje_at_wellcome.ac.uk Jacob
Leveridge j.leveridge_at_wellcome.ac.uk Sue
Crossley s.crossley_at_wellcome.ac.uk Liz
Shaw e.shaw_at_wellcome.ac.uk