If you want to pursue your postdoctoral education in the UK via scholarship or fellowship award, here is the great news coming your way. Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 is now open for national and international students.
Below is brief information about this fellowship, its requirements, and the application procedure.
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship is a completely funded program for 4 years, provided by Wellcome for national and international students. This special fellowship program helps the researchers to carry out their independent research projects in the best research environment.
Sir Henry Wellcome’s postdoctoral fellowship program is open to students from all parts of the world who want to do their postdoctoral research projects with Wellcome. It provides a total value of £300,000 to each student, including their basic salary, research expenses, and fellowship supplements.
It is a special fellowship program for recently graduated and qualified postdoctoral researchers to conduct their independent research and get the opportunity to carry out their research projects in some of the world’s best research environments.
What is Wellcome?
Wellcome Trust is a non-profit and charitable foundation in the UK that provides financial support to researchers and scientists from all parts of the world. Another aim of this foundation is to improve human health facilities in the country.
Specifications of the Fellowship
1. Degree: Post Doctoral
2. Course: Public Health
3. University: Wellcome
4. Country: UK, Ireland
5. Duration: 4 years
6. Funding Value: £ 300,000
Benefits of this Fellowship
If someone is awarded Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowship program, they can also enjoy the following benefits.
- You will get the basic salary that your host organization will determine.
- You will get the total funding of your salary’s total cost, estimated for the whole grant period. This total funding will include
- Your basic salary
- National Insurance and pension for the UK-based researchers
- Incremental progressions
- Local allowances like the London allowance
- £2,500 per year for personal support
- Research expenses
- You can ask for the work permit and visa costs.
- You can ask for visa costs for your spouse and dependent children.
- You will also get travel costs to attend your appointments for the visa at the embassy or visa application center.
- You can apply for Research Enrichment funding to conduct your research project in a better way and improve the impact on open research, diversity, and public engagement.
- An endorsement of Tier 1 Global Talent visa application is guaranteed to the students who live outside the UK and have their host organization in the UK.
What is not Offered?
Here are a few things that are not offered by Sir Henry Wellcome’s postdoctoral fellowship program.
- Research assistance is not provided.
- The necessary equipment required for your research is not provided. So, choose a place that already has your required equipment.
Eligibility Criteria
The candidates who want to benefit from Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowship program must strictly fulfill the following requirements.
- The required language for this fellowship program is English.
- This fellowship program is open for candidates of all nationalities.
- This fellowship program is aimed at researchers who want a guided period for their research and want to lead their independent research.
- The candidate must be a researcher of an early career with some basic postdoctoral experience or a final year student of Ph.D.
- The candidate must have an eligible host organization in the UK or Ireland to administer the fellowship expenses for the entire period.
- The candidate must have initiated in making contributions in the areas of research publications and software developments, etc.
- The candidate must be a UK national or a Ph.D. student if not fulfilling any of the above requirements to qualify for this fellowship.
Expectations of The Fellowship Program
Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowship program is open for candidates from all parts of the world with a few expectations.
- The researcher should expand the horizon of their research and develop scientific abilities to become a future leader.
- The researcher should work on his specific idea. The researcher can take the help of a mentor to select a topic or development of the proposal.
- Select a research topic with a broader scope than the usual postdoctoral research. The research topic should help you outstand from the previous researchers.
Application & Admission Procedure
Below are the step-by-step application and admission procedure for Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowship program.
- Submission of preliminary application.
- Applications review.
- Full application submission to the host organization.
- Review of full application by the host organization.
- Review of application by external peer.
- Shortlisting and admissions.
