biomedical ethics at the wellcome trust jacob leveridge biomedical ethics programme
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Biomedical Ethics at the Wellcome Trust
Jacob LeveridgeBiomedical Ethics Programme
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• An independent research-funding charity
• Established 1936
• Funded from private endowment
• Managed for long-term stability and growth
• Interests range from science to history of medicine
The Wellcome Trust
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Wellcome Trust mission
“To foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health”
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What we have funded in the past
• Most of the nearly 50 Biomedical Ethics awards made since 2003 have been for seminars and symposia
• The majority of awards have focused on short training courses in research ethics
• Most awards have been to sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian sub-continent
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A shift in emphasis…
• We will now shift our focus towards more advanced capacity development and support for scholarship in ethics research
• This does not have to be research in research ethics, but it must demonstrate local relevance
• We will no longer support training in basic research ethics
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What counts as research in ethics?
• Ethical issues must be central to the project’s aims
• The project must include some ethical analysis of what ought or ought not to be done
• We will no longer fund research that is purely descriptive
• We want to see more collaboration
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The support on offer
• Personal support
– PhD Studentships
– Research Travel Grants
• Project support
– Small Project Grants
– Project Grants
– Symposia
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Existing personal support available
• Studentships - To enable young scholars to undertake basic training in research and methods by up to three years of full-time research leading to a doctoral degree at a university in a developing country
• Research Travel Grants - For short-term visits by scholars within their own country, or to another country, for the purposes of collaborative research and networking
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Existing project support available
• Small Project Grants - To meet the direct costs of a modest research project, which might be a pilot or capacity development project
• Project Grants – To meet the direct costs of a larger research project
• Symposia – To bring representatives of different disciplines together to discuss ethical issues arising from research or healthcare practice in developing countries
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Other forms of support
• The Trust continues to support the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research
• A new International Public Engagement funding scheme, which will include possible support for descriptive ethics research
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http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/funding/medicalhumanities/biomedicalethics/