Liz Shaw

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MEDICAL HUMANITIES and PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AT THE
WELLCOME TRUST FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

• Liz Shaw
• Ariel Retik

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• an independent research-funding charity
• established 1936
• funded from private endowment
• managed for long-term stability and growth
• interests range from science to history of
  medicine

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To foster and promote research with the aim of
improving human and animal health
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Medical History and Humanities Remit

• To encourage applicants to address the important
  questions that will develop further our
  understanding of the progress, socioeconomic and
  cultural impacts of medicine and medical sciences
  on human and animal health.
• Research must be historically grounded, drawing,
  where appropriate, on wider disciplines, in
  particular the humanities.
• Disciplines Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences

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Eligibility

• Any department, as long as the research is
  historically grounded
• Main regions of funding UK and Ireland
• Possibility of overseas funding, if deemed of
  strategic importance
• Focus Areas India, Major Overseas Programmes
  (MOPS), Developing and Restructuring Countries

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Places Strong track record in global health
researchGeographic focus
Major Overseas Programmes
Focus countries
Other eligible countries
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Programme Grants

• Encourage more expansive research on important
  questions at the interface of science, medicine
  and the humanities
• Long-term funding up to 5 years support on a
  focused topic or theme

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Pilot Grants

• Designed explicitly to develop a competitive
  Programme Grant application
• Test research questions, methodology and
  collaborations
• Should also have its own autonomous outcome (e.g.
  journal article, large conference, etc)
• Can include research leave
• Up to 2 years support

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University Awards

• Allows universities to attract outstanding
  research staff
• The university guarantees a permanent post at the
  end of the award
• Applicants cannot be in an established academic
  post
• Up to 5 years support, providing full salary for
  three years, 50 in the fourth year and 25 in
  the fifth year

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Fellowship Awards

• You CAN apply before you have finished your PhD
• Only two deadlines 1st of August and 1st of
  December
• Interviews are held within 2 weeks after the FC
  meeting
• Up to 3 years support

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Research Leave Awards

• Allows researchers to undertake an uninterrupted
  period of full-time research
• Pays for a replacement lecturer
• Can be part of a Programme or Pilot Grant
• Tenable for up to three years
• Also for clinicians and scientists (6 months)

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Small Grants

• Research Expenses assistance for modest
  programme of study (up to 2 years, 5,000)
• Conferences, Symposia, Seminar Series financial
  support for organising academic meetings of all
  kinds (up to 5,000)
• Applications accepted throughout the year
• Fast turnaround decisions are usually made
  within 8 weeks
• No need for preliminary application

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Application Process

• Three deadlines per year
• 1 March (FC meets in June)
• 1 August (FC meets in November)
• 1 December (FC meets in March)
• Preliminary applications required 6 weeks before
  deadline
• Programme Grant Prelims go to Funding Committee
• Interview within 2 weeks of Funding Committee
• How we can help Grant Outreach and Grant
  Administration

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Other Wellcome Funding
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Biomedical Ethics

• Ethical issues arising in the develop-ment
  delivery of healthcare or use of medical
  techniques in non-healthcare contexts
• Must have some ethical/critical analysis of what
  ought or ought not to be done, or some analysis
  of concepts crucial to that ethical analysis
• Can have substantial empirical component
• Must be research in ethics

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Other Arts and Humanities Activities at the Trust

• Wellcome Library
• http//library.wellcome.ac.uk
• Wellcome Collection
• http//www.wellcomecollection.org
• Wellcome Trust Book Prize
• http//www.wellcomebookprize.org

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Public Engagement

• Dissemination of academic outputs
• Opportunities within research projects to reach
  wider audiences
• Public Engagement grants