Career Development Awards - Research funding - Wellcome
About this grant
We will allow current grantholders of the following mid-career schemes to apply for a Career Development Award until the end of their awards, unless they have been appointed to a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract that they will take up by the start of the Career Development Award:
If you are one of these grantholders, you must have an active grant at the application deadline.
### Other Wellcome awards [...] You can ask for costs to cover the following types of training.
#### Continuing professional development and professional skills training
You can ask for a contribution towards these costs.
Types of training can include:
We expect your administering organisation to provide and fund this training. However, if these types of training are not available, or the quality is inadequate, you can ask for up to £500 a year for you and each member of staff employed on your grant who will be: [...] We will not pay for capital or building costs, such as access ramps.
You can ask for these costs if your government and/or employer:
The costs we provide must not replace the support you may get from the government or your organisation, who are responsible for providing these costs.
If you don't know what these costs are now, you can ask for them after we've awarded your grant.
### continuing professional development and trainingShow
Eligibility
- ✓ Mid-career researchers
- ✓ Substantial and innovative research programme
- ✓ UK, Republic of Ireland, Low- or middle-income countries (apart from India and mainland China)
- ✓ Mid-career
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Last verified: 29 March 2026