Institutional Funding for Research Culture

Thriving research environments are essential to Wellcome’s strategic aims of driving innovative research to improve health. The Institutional Funding for Research Culture (IFRC) call will enable organisations to move beyond their current practice and explore ways to advance their research cultures.

Call at a glance 

Funding amount:

Up to £1 million

Funding duration:

Up to 2 years

Coapplicants:
Not accepted

Disabled applicants

If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition, we can support you with the application process.

About this call 

The Institutional Funding for Research Culture is an invitation only call in which each organisation is only able to submit one application. The call intends to have a cross-organisational impact. For this reason, we require the lead applicant for this award to be the Vice-Chancellor or equivalent. 

Applicants will articulate their vision to advance a culture that fosters inclusive, equitable, open, engaged, and ethical research. (hereafter referred to as a ‘positive research culture’). They will be asked to identify a specific challenge they are currently facing and outline how this grant would enable them to realise their ambitions and what potential solutions they anticipate implementing. This call offers an opportunity to experiment with new approaches and ideas to promote a positive research culture. The proposed work should be a pilot or proof-of-concept, with the potential to scale up, followed by an evaluation stage.  

Wellcome is interested in learning from this work, so successful applicants will take part in Wellcome-organised meetings with a network of other awardees to share best practise and successes from their work. 

What we are looking for 

What we offer 

How to apply 

Key dates 

You must submit your application by 17:00 (BST) on the deadline day. We don’t accept late applications.

  1. 13 February 2023

    Webinar

    Watch the recording
  2. 9 May 2023

    Application deadline

  3. August 2023

    Application outcomes announced

Contact us 

List of invited institutions