
Our new funding will support bold and creative discovery research to improve health
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.
We want to help build a better research culture – one that is creative, inclusive and honest. Current practices prioritise outputs at almost any cost. This is damaging people’s wellbeing and undermining the quality of research. We can all help to reimagine how research is conducted.
Thousands of researchers have taken part in the largest ever survey into experiences of research culture.
And through your Café Culture discussions, and events across the country, we've been hearing your ideas for change.
Your conversations have been feeding directly into our work, and we've committed to making change – in how we employ staff, how we fund researchers, and how people benefit from the research we support. We've also announced three new schemes for discovery research, which put culture at the heart of our funding.
Transforming culture will involve us all working together. We want to carry on learning from and working with others to build a better culture for everyone.
Catch up with the highlights from our online festival – learn about new approaches to improving culture, what's already working, and how you can take on change in your organisation.
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.
By 2031 Wellcome will be an inclusive employer, an inclusive funder, and our work and all the activities we fund will be inclusive in design and practice.
Senior leaders from UK research funders get together to discuss research culture, using one of Wellcome's Café Culture kits.
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[Summary] Perspectives on and experiences of research culture, based on a survey of more than 4,000 researchers in the UK and globally.
Our review reveals high levels of satisfaction with biomedical PhD training overall, but significant levels of worry and uncertainty among students.