The Wellcome Trust's Collaborative Awards promote the development of new ideas and bring disciplines together to speed the pace of discovery. This scheme funds teams who are tackling major health-related questions in the humanities and social sciences that require a collaborative approach.
The Wellcome Trust strongly encourages applications that combine humanities and social science research with biomedical science research and/or product development and applied research.
The Trust is looking for teams with a track record of working together to tackle research questions that can only be approached collaboratively. Teams can come from the same discipline or from a combination of disciplines. They can be from the same university department or a number of organisations (anywhere in the world).
A Collaborative Award is normally in the range of £1 million to £1.5 million, for up to five years. Applicants should ask for a level and duration of funding that's justifiable for their career stage, research experience and the proposed research programme. Support covers research expenses, including research assistance or PhDs, research/teaching replacement, and conference and meeting costs.
For further details on this funding opportunity, please see the associated webpage here.