About the awards
Collaborative Awards promote the development of new ideas and bring disciplines together to speed the pace of discovery. This scheme funds teams who are tackling major health-related questions in the humanities and social sciences that require a collaborative approach.
Eligibility and suitability
Who can apply
You can apply for a Collaborative Award if you have a team of two to six principal applicants. Each applicant should have a good track record in their area of research, relative to their career stage.
What we're looking for
We’re looking for teams with a track record of working together to tackle research questions that can only be approached collaboratively. Teams can come from the same discipline or from a combination of disciplines. They can be from the same university department or a number of organisations (anywhere in the world).
We encourage applications that combine humanities and social science research with biomedical science research and/or product development and applied research. Please contact us if you’re not sure which area to apply to.
Important factors when we evaluate your application are:
- the environment in which you do your research
- the support your host organisation provides.
What we offer
A Collaborative Award is normally in the range of £1 million to £1.5 million, for up to five years. You should ask for a level and duration of funding that's justifiable for your career stage, research experience and the proposed research programme. Support includes:
- research expenses, including research assistance or PhDs
- research or teaching buy-out leave
- conference and meeting costs
You can also apply for public engagement funds to involve the public in your research and inspire learning.
What we don’t offer
We don't provide funds for directly allocated or indirect costs unless they're included on this page.
How to apply
You must submit your application through the Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker (WTGT).
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You must submit your application through the Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker.
We’ll assess your eligibility and suitability, and give you a decision within six weeks of the preliminary application deadline. If suitable, we will invite you to submit a full application.
View the Sample full application form for Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science
Shortlisting
Full applications are shortlisted by either the Medical Humanities Investigator and Collaborative Award Expert Review Group or the Society and Ethics Investigator and Collaborative Award Expert Review Group, depending on the area of your proposed research. If successful, we’ll invite you to an interview.
External written peer review
We'll seek written comments from external expert reviewers. We will send you some of their unattributed comments before your interview.
If peer reviews indicate that your application isn’t competitive, we may withdraw it.
Interviews
At the interview, you’ll be asked to make a 15-minute presentation and answer questions from the Humanities and Social Science Selection Panel. Interviews take place at the Wellcome offices in London. We can pay your travel and accommodation costs.
Dates
We consider applications twice a year. You must submit your application by 17:00 (GMT/BST) on the deadline day. We don’t accept late applications.
Occasionally, we may encourage particular areas of research and/or training. In these instances, we may change the application deadlines so that we can consider bids from different organisations alongside each other.
July 2017 round
- Prelimary applications deadline - 4 July 2017
- Full applications deadline - 19 September 2017
- Shortlisting - November 2017
- Interviews - January 2018
January 2017 round
- Preliminary applications deadline - 16 January 2017
- Full applications deadline - 20 March 2017
- Shortlisting - May 2017
- Interviews - July 2017
For more information click "Further official information" below.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/collaborative-awards-humanities-and-social-science