How we support research careers

We do this by offering a wide range of funding schemes, including our schemes that support careers in research. We offer funding at key career stages.

Most of our grantholders get funding from a range of sources during their career, not just from Wellcome.

We also:

• promote research careers and good research practice by influencing and informing policy
• work towards a more diverse and inclusive research culture, including encouraging research across disciplines
• provide researchers with flexible career opportunities, for example when they’ve had a career break or want to work part time
• help researchers become effective and fulfil their potential, for example through mentorship and fellowship meetings.

There are exciting career opportunities in research. Some of today's jobs – for example in health informatics, advanced brain imaging and computational biology – didn’t exist five years ago.

As careers in research continue to change, researchers will remain at the heart of our strategy.