Wellcome Trust Research Enrichment - Open Research, 2020
Deadline for applications: 15 Apr 2020
Career Stage: Postdoctoral research, leading a research programme, returning to research
Level of funding: Up to £50,000
Duration of funding: Funding will end at the same time as your main Wellcome grant
Who can apply
You can apply for this funding if you have a proposal for innovative open research activities that will increase the impact of the research funded under your main Wellcome grant.
You must be:
- a current Wellcome-funded grantholder
or
- a successful applicant to one of our schemes – you've received an award confirmation letter.
In both cases, you must be the lead applicant.
All of our funding schemes are eligible for Research Enrichment – Open Research funding, apart from the following:
- Biomedical Vacation Scholarships
- Doctoral Studentships
- Four-year PhD Studentships in Science
- International Master's Fellowships
- Master's Studentships in Humanities and Social Science
- PhD Training Fellowships for Clinicians
- Seed Awards in Humanities and Social Science
- Seed Awards in Science
- Small Grants in Humanities and Social Science
You must be able to complete your proposed activities by the end date of your main Wellcome grant.
If you are not eligible for this scheme, you can still apply for funding through our Open Research Fund.
Your proposal
Your proposed activities should include opportunities for you to:
- make the research outputs from your main Wellcome grant more open, accessible and reusable, so they can have the greatest possible impact
- develop innovative and ambitious ways to advance open research.
The activities we support can take many forms. For example, you could use the funding to:
- help researchers find, access and reuse your data, for example by creating data visualisations or developing ways to rapidly query or mine datasets, improve metadata, or share sensitive data in a secure way
- improve the reproducibility and transparency of your research, for example by sharing research outputs that would have not otherwise been available (like null and negative results or enhanced protocols), or using virtual machines to package data and code together
- allow your research outputs to be shared in real-time (or near real-time), for example using open lab notebooks
- improve software use, for example by creating training guides and resources, holding workshops, or carrying out usability testing
- encourage greater participation and engagement in your research, for example by crowdsourcing views on datasets, or using social media to generate new research ideas and collaborations
- embed open research practices, for example by trialling open research approaches in organisations and communities, or visiting and learning from other open research pioneers.
For more information, or to apply, visit the call webpage.
