Wellcome Trust International Exchange Programmes in Humanities, Social Science and Bioethics, 2020-21
Deadline for preliminary applications: 3 Mar 2020
Deadline for full applications: Nov 2020
Career stage: Leading a research programme
Where your host organisation is based: UK, Rest of the world
Level of funding: Up to £1.5 million
Duration of funding: 3 to 5 years
Who can apply
You can apply for this award if you want to run an international exchange programme specialising in health-related humanities, social sciences or bioethics.
The exchange programme you propose must:
- help programme participants to transform their careers by experiencing academic life abroad
- enable you and the other programme leaders to shape the direction of your future work through global partnerships.
Programme leaders
Your programme must have one leader based at an eligible UK organisation who is the lead applicant.
There must be at least one other programme leader (coapplicant) based at an eligible organisation anywhere in the world outside the UK. You can also have further partner organisations located in the same country or different countries (one of which could be in the UK).
Each applicant must have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract, or the guarantee of one. Your salary must be paid by your host organisation.
If you, or any coapplicants, hold a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract but have to get your salary from external grant funding, you can ask us for this in your application. If this applies to you, or any coapplicants on your grant, you must commit at least 10% of your working hours to the programme. In this case, your host organisation must confirm details about your employment contract(s) or their policy on salary recovery costs.
Programme leaders can be at different career stages. The lead applicant does not need to be the most experienced member of the group.
As a group, you must show in your application that you have:
- experience in running a research programme or network, or of delivering complex projects
- effective working relationships with each other through previous collaborations or shared research interests
- experience in supervising researchers.
Exchanges
In your application, you must provide a clear plan for the proposed structure of the exchanges within your programme, including (but not limited to):
- what participants will do, for example research, writing up, teaching, networking and other research-related activities
- the number of participants
- the frequency and duration of the exchanges
- how leadership responsibilities will be shared equally
- how you'll support the participants, for example through mentoring, teaching and other career development activities
- how you'll manage issues involved in an exchange programme, for example supporting the welfare of the participants
- your plans for selecting participants, including their level of experience and your commitment to equality and inclusion
- your commitment to supporting a positive research culture and sharing best practice.
You must also tell us how these exchanges will:
- help programme participants transform their careers
- enable you and the other programme leaders to shape the direction of your future work.
For more details, or to apply, visit the call webpage.
