Wellcome Trust humanities and social sciences webinar: registration open

Eastern Arc will be hosting a research funding webinar with the Wellcome Trust on 27 June at 12noon. It will look at the opportunities for those working in the humanities and social sciences.

It is online, free and open to all. To register click here.

Wellcome is a charitable foundation focused on funding and supporting health-related research. This includes research in the humanities and social sciences, and this event is a chance to hear about the opportunities in this area following Wellcome’s announcement of its new strategy.

The session will be led by Dr Thomas Bray. Dr Bray is a Senior Research Manager in the Discovery Research team at Wellcome, with a focus on supporting research on health and wellbeing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Wellcome’s Discovery Research strategy seeks to support bold, creative, and high-quality research from a broad range of disciplines; you can find more details here. This will be through both directed activities and open-mode funding; you can read more about the three Discovery Research schemes here.

This workshop will focus on the Discovery Research strategy and its role within Wellcome’s wider mission to support research which can solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.

To register click here. 

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