@wellcometrust Head of Research and Funding Equity 🏳️🌈👨🏾🔬 He/him
London, England
Joined July 2008
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I will never not retweet a Gilliam announcement. Congrats to all the folks getting this fantastic award!
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📢 Today @CRUKresearch publishes its 3rd diversity in research data report
We want to be transparent about our funding - & importantly, track progress, shine a light on inequalities, and focus targeted initiatives to drive change
Please give it a read 👇cancerresearchuk.org/funding…
It's great that @CRUKresearch is continuing to use a data-driven approach to put programmes and initiatives in place to drive change for increasing the diversity of who does research.
Kudos to @SMRussell14 @marvel_matt and team for their transparency and approach!
Today we published data on who’s applied for and received our funding over the past five years: bit.ly/3rCwEhO. We’re making progress in creating a more diverse research community, but we’re not satisfied yet with the way things are 👇 (1/4)
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Sign up here for next weeks’s webinar for researchers based in Africa: wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-…
A webinar also planned for global researchers based in Africa - do sign up now and it will address a lot of myths and questions about what Discovery Science means ! @wellcometrust @SophHawkesworth @ThruZim @BRTI_ZIMBABWE
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The UK is planning on massively increasing visa costs.
Currently a researcher looking at a 5-year Global Talent Visa, together with their partner and two children, needs to find £13.4k.
All up front. A big ask.
But that’s now slated to increase to…
**£20.9k**
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Wellcome has been running focus groups to understand ways to support Black-led orgs helping Black research careers.
Today we start recruiting collective vision and idea testing groups.
Focus groups are online, 2 hours and pay £200.
More info🔗wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-…
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WOW. What an excellent start to the week! Today @wellcometrust is announcing new appointments to our exec team!
@jvolmink will be our first ever Chief EDI Officer and our very own @Beth_Thompson will be our Chief Strategy Officer.
wellcome.org/news/wellcome-a…
.@Beth_Thompson has led *so much* important strategic work for @wellcometrust over the years.
Including our #ReimagineResearch campaign, how UK science handles Brexit, and ensuring GDPR works for UK science!
She also led our Climate and Health team before @AlanDangour arrived.
It's so great that @wellcometrust gets to benefit from both of these team members experience, brilliance, and vision.
I'm so excited about where we will be going--both as a team as an organisation--in the future!
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Rewards and recognition drive #ResearchCulture.
So it's great progress that REF 2028 will shine a light on People, Culture and Environment.
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1/6 Today's #REF2028 news is positive indeed!🌞
Our #FutureproofingResearch report calls for REF to
👩🔬Value team science
🔁Remove disincentives to cross-sector mobility
🔬Prioritise people and research environment
👩⚕️Value contributions of research-active NHS employees
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These changes broaden what contributes to "research excellence" to include:
✔️research culture
✔️diversity of researchers
✔️team science
We called for #REF2028 to promote the people-centred approach required for #FutureproofingResearch.
Our report: acmedsci.ac.uk/future-proofi…
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🚨Wellcome wants to hear from the leadership of Black-led grassroots organisations supporting the careers of Black researchers.
We have launched a series of 2 hour online focus groups paying participants £200.
Deadline 12th Jun
More info🔗wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-…
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🚨New Report!🚨
Pleased to share Phase 2 of #Concordats review. Key outcomes:
🔵 🤝 agreement to move on from a concordat centric to a research culture model
🔵 Action plan needed for co-designing and co-delivering above 👆🏾 with initiative owners, HEIs and research orgs
Universities UK, @UKRI_News and @wellcometrust are pleased to publish phase two of our concordats and agreements review🌟
Take a look👇
universitiesuk.ac.uk/what-we…
