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The Wellcome Trust supports the recommendations of the Hargreaves Review for reform of the UK copyright system. Such reform is urgently needed to update a system that is no…
Can physical fitness improve academic achievement? Would teenagers do better in their exams if they could sleep in and start school later? These questions will be part of a…
IQ, the standard measure of intelligence, can increase or fall significantly during our teenage years, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust, and these changes…
The act of giving blood is associated with notions of community and contributing to the greater good. But blood services today are an increasingly complex business clouded by…
The winners of the annual Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, in association with the 'Guardian' and the 'Observer', were announced at an awards ceremony at Kings Place,…
The government’s proposed reforms to the National Health Service lack a clear vision of what a 21st-century health service should deliver, according to the Director of the…
This study explores the role, benefits and potential of young people’s involvement in health research, with a focus on mental health, infectious diseases and global heating.
The Wellcome Library’s innovative digital player, the piece of software that is used to 'play' digitised content, is now freely available for anyone to download and use.
The Wellcome Trust is to offer financial support for two students per year for three years to undertake a postgraduate qualification in science journalism at City University…
An innovative new way of communicating science research launches today with Gamify Your PhD, a project from the Wellcome Trust that brings together researchers and games…
See our opportunities and support available for researchers re-entering a research career, taking time off, needing flexible or part-time working, or have caring…
The Wellcome Library and Jisc today announce nine partner institutions whose 19th-century book collections will be digitised and added to the UK Medical Heritage Library (UK…
Watch our recorded webinars to learn how Wellcome Discovery Research funding can support research and researchers based in low- and middle-income countries around the world.
Michael Dunn shares more information about our new discovery research funding schemes, and the role of the Discovery Research team in Wellcome’s new strategy.
The Wellcome Trust has been working with technology company Digital Science to introduce a new way of classifying the roles of individuals in work leading to published…
Wellcome is to launch a new £250m fund that will place big bets on ambitious research programmes with the potential to fundamentally change science or transform health over a…