Wellcome Open Call: Biological Vulnerability to Extreme Heat in Maternal and Child Health
About
The Wellcome Trust is accepting nominations for the Biological vulnerability to extreme heat in maternal and child health.
This award will fund research teams to significantly advance understanding of the biological vulnerability to extreme heat in the context of maternal and child health. By the end of the award, successful applicants will have delivered new knowledge at this intersection and generated evidence with the potential to inform new interventions that can be used in real world settings.
Categories
The award includes:
a basic salary (determined by your host organisation)
relocation allowance
staff
continuing professional development and training
materials and consumables
animals
equipment
access charges
overheads
travel and subsistence
overseas allowances
fieldwork expenses
inflation allowance
open access charges
clinical research costs
public engagement and patient involvement costs
contract research organisations
other costs
Funding Information
This call provides up to £2 million of funding to cover research expenses and costs associated with public engagement, research dissemination and research uptake activities.
They expect awards to last between three and five years.
Eligibility
Lead Applicant
You must:
have demonstrated experience of leading a successful research programme from design and development to achievement of agreed milestones
have a track record of managing and training others, while promoting a positive and inclusive research culture
have demonstrated ability to drive and lead an interdisciplinary / transdisciplinary research programme
be able to contribute at least 20% of their research time to the programme
be based at an eligible host organisation that can sign up to their grant conditions (it can be based in any country apart from mainland China).
The type of host organisation can be:
higher education institution
public and private research institute
non-academic healthcare organisation
not-for-profit organisation.
Coapplicants
Coapplicants can be based in the same or in different organisations, and can come from any discipline, but the added value of the team approach must be clear.
Coapplicants can be at any career stage and based anywhere in the world, apart from mainland China.
Each coapplicant must make a significant and essential contribution to the research proposal, for example designing the research, writing the application and/or managing the programme.
They must be able to contribute at least 10% of their research time to the programme.
Post Date: 08-Jun-2022