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The Birmingham Fellowship Wellcome Trust Award 2015-2016:
Enhancing Support for Early Career Development of Birmingham Fellows
The Birmingham Fellows programme attracts the brightest and the best from around the world to develop
their academic careers at the University of Birmingham. Working in partnership with The Wellcome Trust,
resources have been allocated from the Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) to further enhance the
package of support available to selected Birmingham Fellows.
The scheme works by providing a ‘top-up’ to the Birmingham Fellowship to enable delivery of specific
outcomes that are aligned to driving major external funding applications to the Wellcome Trust, and other
bodies, in addition to supporting the creation of publications in high impact journals. Funding is flexible but
should be focused on enabling research grant applications and high quality publications.
Eligibility:
This funding scheme is open to selected Birmingham Fellows working on strategic challenges identified by
the Wellcome Trust that are listed below:
Wellcome Trust Strategic Challenges
Maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics
Understanding the brain
Combating Infectious Disease
Investigating development, ageing and chronic disease
Connecting environment, nutrition and health
Allowed costs:
Awards of up to £15,000 are available to provide the support needed for the Fellow to most effectively
progress the proposed project. This could for example include consumables, travel or training costs and
single items of equipment not exceeding £10k. Applicants must fully justify the request for resources, and
funds must be spent by September 2016 at the very latest.
Use of funds:
Funds may only be used for directly incurred costs. Applicants are generally discouraged from applying for
staff costs and should be aware that the panel will not consider the appointment of new posts at all. Where
applicants can justify the support of current posts, the intended funding they are to move on to after the
award must be made explicitly clear (e.g. external funding applications submitted and expecting outcomes
by the end of the proposed project). Where they are included, staff costs should be calculated as salary + NI
+ superannuation. Estates and indirect costs may not be included. Please contact your research finance
contact for costing information.
Terms & Conditions:
The funds awarded include contributions from our Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund and
as such are covered by the Wellcome Trust terms and conditions which can be read here:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@sf_central_grants_admin/documents/web_d
ocument/wtx026668.pdf
(You may need to copy & paste this link into your browser for it to work).
Please read and understand these terms and conditions carefully prior to making an application to
ensure suitability of this funding source for your project.
If you have any general questions about the application process, please do not hesitate to contact Tariq
Khan, Research Development Officer (t.khan@bham.ac.uk). Questions in relation to your proposed project
should be discussed with your Head of School (Or Directors of Institutes in the case of MDS) and your
Research Support Office.
Application process:
Eligible applicants will be selected to apply by their College. Selected applicants should then discuss and
submit their applications to the following contacts at their Research Support Office:
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Francesco Maria Colacino, f.colacino@bham.ac.uk (x42216), EPS
Caroline McKay, C.S.McKay@bham.ac.uk (x 43463), LES
Kate Bishop, K.Bishop@bham.ac.uk, (x43115), MDS
The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 8th January 2016. Applicants will be informed of the
outcome of their application in February 2016.
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The Birmingham Fellowship Wellcome Trust Award 2015-2016:
Application Form
Please return to your Research Support Office
Closing date for receipt of applications: Friday 8th January 5PM
1. CANDIDATE DETAILS
A. Contact details
Surname:
Other names:
School:
College:
Telephone no:
Email address:
B. Fellowship applications and / or other grants held as PI or named co-applicant (please give details of
all applications made previously. Include type of award, funding body and result.
C. Research Experience and awards (please give brief details of your research experience, training and
awards; please describe the subject of any previous external fellowships here if relevant; 200 words max)
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D. Candidate’s Publications (Please state the top 5 most significant publications)
2.
Research Proposal
A.
Title of proposed project
(max 200 characters) :
B.
Research Proposal
Please set out the research you propose to undertake during the award. You should address the following: i)
what will you spend the money on against the September 2016 deadline ii) how will it advance your
research iii) how will it advance your career development iv) what grant applications will it enable v) what
publications will you write that you wouldn’t otherwise have written vi) other outcomes vii) plan for spend.
Please do not exceed 2 pages.
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C: Impact Milestones - including external grant capture to the Wellcome Trust and other bodies outlined in
the milestones in table below. SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timebound)
objectives should be used.
Activity
Output
Start date
Delivery date
Cost (£)
Value (of
proposed
applications)
D: Alignment with the Wellcome Trust’s Strategic Challenges
As we will be using our Wellcome Trust ISSF Award to support this Fellowship, please identify what
Wellcome Trust strategic challenge your project seeks to address?
Wellcome Trust Strategic Challenges
Maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics
Understanding the brain
Combating Infectious Disease
Investigating development, ageing and chronic disease
Connecting environment, nutrition and health
E: Project costs
Which member of the Academic Accounting team prepared these
costs?
Proposed Start Date
Duration
Direct Costs
Travel & Subsistence
Consumables
Equipment (no single item above £10,000)
Other costs (please advise)
TOTAL
3.
A: Approvals and signatures
I confirm that I am aware of the content of this application, and that the information given above is, to
the best of my knowledge, correct.
Signature of candidate:
Date:
Signature of Head of
School /Institute Director
Signature of Director of
Research
Date:
Date:
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