Research culture: let's reimagine how we work together
Current practices prioritise outputs over people’s wellbeing. We want to help build a better research culture – one that is creative, inclusive and honest.
Our aim is to improve health through the best research.
We do this through four core objectives.
1. Creating knowledge: we support the broadest range of research, that extends knowledge by testing and investigating ideas. In doing so, we will take risks.
2. Strengthening research capacity: we support the most able and dedicated researchers at every career stage and give them access to the best possible equipment and infrastructure.
3. Using knowledge effectively: we work to make the knowledge generated through Wellcome support readily available to be used by others and, where relevant, to improve health.
4. Promoting an environment in which research can flourish: we work with others to make sure the research environment is conducive to the flourishing of science and health research.
Find out more about the science team's strategy, Improving health through the best research [PDF 1MB].
Our Science Strategy Advisory Group helps us to develop and deliver our strategy.
A major part of our work is engaging with the research community about their research ideas, many of whom will go through our funding schemes.
Funding for large-scale research proposals that do not fit within our funding schemes, but help to deliver the science team's strategy, may be available through Science Strategic Support. Prospective applicants should contact a member of the science team to discuss their proposal.
If you have a question about the research content or scope of your proposal, then the remits of each team and relevant contacts are shown below.
If you have a question about your eligibility, the application process, funding policies or general queries about grants, please use our contact form instead.
Director of Science
Director, Research Discovery
Executive Assistant and Project Manager
Contact about:Head of UK and Europe Research Landscape
Contact about:PA to Anne-Marie Coriat
Head of Major Science Investments
Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Genetics and Molecular Sciences and Acting Head of Cellular and Developmental Sciences
Contact about:PA to Michael Dunn and Department Coordinator
Senior Portfolio Developer
Contact about:Senior Portfolio Developer
Contact about:Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Clinical and Physiological Sciences
Contact about:PA to Sara Marshall and Department Coordinator
Contact about:Portfolio Manager
Contact about:Portfolio Manager
Contact about:Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Genetics and Molecular Sciences and Head of Cellular and Developmental Sciences
Contact about:PA to Michael Dunn and Department Coordinator
Senior Portfolio Developer
Contact about:Science Portfolio Adviser
Contact about:Science Portfolio Adviser
Contact about:Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Infection and Immunobiology
Contact about:PA and Department Coordinator
Portfolio Manager
Contact about:Portfolio Manager
Contact about:Portfolio Manager
Contact about:Portfolio Manager
Contact about:Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Contact about:PA to Andrew Welchman and Department Coordinator
Senior Portfolio Developer
Contact about:Science Portfolio Adviser
Contact about:Science Portfolio Adviser
Contact about:Science Portfolio Adviser
Contact about:Senior Portfolio Developer
Contact about:The team oversees Wellcome's priority area Our Planet, Our Health.
Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Population Health
Contact about:Department Coordinator
Portfolio Manager
Contact about:Portfolio Manager
Contact about:Senior Portfolio Lead
Contact about:Science Portfolio Adviser
Contact about:Portfolio Adviser
Contact about:The team coordinates the operations and governance of international initiatives, and oversees Wellcome’s priority area research ecosystems in Africa and Asia.
Head of International Operations and Partnerships
Contact about:PA and Department Coordinator
Project Coordinator, Research Ecosystems in Africa and Asia – International Operations and Partnerships
Contact about:Programme Officer, Research Ecosystems in Africa and Asia – International Operations and Partnerships
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International Operations Manager
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Current practices prioritise outputs over people’s wellbeing. We want to help build a better research culture – one that is creative, inclusive and honest.
Following the work led by Jim Smith in reviewing the way we support science, Wellcome is now reviewing its wider strategy.
We support researchers across the world to explore fundamental questions about health and disease.
We want researchers to work and train in environments where world-class research and translation can thrive. So we invest in the places where research happens.
Over the past 25 years, we’ve made a number of critical strategic investments. These multi-million pound, long-term investments in people, resources and technology have helped transform key areas of science.
We invest in researchers, large programmes of research and co-funded initiatives in Africa and Asia.
Over the past ten years, we’ve invested more than £120 million in longitudinal population studies in the UK and low- and middle-income countries.