The Wellcome Trust - Humanities and Social Sciences
Supporting bright minds in science, the humanities, and the social sciences, as well as education, public engagement, and the application of research to medicine.
Around £60m budget funding a wide variety of funding schemes to support individual researchers, teams, seed ideas and places, and areas of the Trust strategic importance in the intersection of the medical sciences and the humanities and social science.
The Faculty of Humanities holds a very positive record of awards from the Wellcome Trust.
The Trust has updated recently the schemes after releasing a new strategy, therefore the information on the website is a transition still to a new format. Some schemes will end during this year 2021.
Examples of awards
- Sleeping well in the early modern world: an environmental approach to the history of sleep care
- Sleeping well in the early modern world: an environmental approach
- Interactions between Cognitive Impairment & Transport in Urban Environments (IN-CITU)
- Addressing infertility in emergent reproductive markets: an anthropology of cross-border reproductive care in contemporary central Asia
- Prosthetic Athleticism: Disability, Technology, and the Remaking of Amputee Identity
- Pioneering healthcare law and bioethics: past, present and future challenges (University of Manchester)
- Cataloguing the medical archive and visual collections at the University of Manchester Library
- Moral and civic reasoning in the NHS (University of Manchester)
- Medicine and philosophy in the Islamic World (University of Manchester)
- The social and psychological outcomes of IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies for individuals, families and society
- The ethics of involving pregnant women in clinical trials for diagnostic tests, treatments and vaccines for Zika virus
- How stereotypes about diets in Scotland, including the deep fried Mars Bar, affect health policy.
- An interdisciplinary study involving historians, clinicians and philosophers into the role of emotions in psychological and physical wellbeing
- Cataloguing the entire Oxfam archive, from the minutes of its inaugural meeting to records of its campaigns.
Current research schemes
- Wellcome Discovery Awards
- Wellcome Early-Career Awards
- Wellcome Career Development Awards
- Research Enrichment – Public Engagement
- The Hub Award
- Master’s Studentships in Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSTM)