Funder: Wellcome Trust
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2027 (Full application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Salary if required, plus up to £200,000 for project expenses over up to two years
Summary: Flexible research and research-adjacent funding helps UK researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage advance their academic careers.
Key Information: Applicants must have an undergraduate degree or PhD awarded by a UK institution; coapplicants are not accepted.
Description
Wellcome Accelerator Awards support early- and mid-career researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to reach their next career stage within academia. The scheme addresses underrepresentation in research funding and higher rates of career attrition. It aims to strengthen researchers’ professional profiles and prospects for securing funding, promotion, positions and recognition.
Funding can support novel ideas, pilots, proof-of-concept or scoping studies, preliminary data collection, training, writing, research visits, secondments and collaborative networks or conferences. Research can span any discipline within Wellcome’s Discovery Research remit. Research-adjacent activities must relate to human life, health or wellbeing, or support a research career in those areas. The emphasis is on activities that directly advance the applicant’s career goals.
