Master's Awards

Purpose

This scheme enables scholars to undertake basic training in research and methods through a one-year Master's course in the history of medicine.

Strong preference is given to applicants intending to make a long-term academic career in the subject.

The award is for one year, and includes:

the student's stipend
all compulsory university and college fees at the UK home postgraduate student level.

Fees at the overseas rate will not be provided.

You should have a minimum of an excellent upper-second-class honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject.

Applications will not be considered from those who have already received support for their postgraduate studies from another funding body.

Unsuccessful applicants will normally not be allowed to resubmit in a subsequent year.

Master's Awards are available through following departments, units and institutions:

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick/Leicester
Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present, Oxford Brookes University
Durham/Newcastle Centre for the History of Medicine
Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Department of History, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland / Centre for the History of the Body, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

All enquiries about Master's Awards should be made directly to the relevant institution, not the Wellcome Trust.

Nominations for the competition will be invited in late June/ early July.

All enquiries about Master's Awards should be made directly to the relevant institution, not the Wellcome Trust.

More general grant enquiries may be submitted to us:

Grants Management - History of Medicine
Wellcome Trust
Gibbs Building
215 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK

T +44 (0)20 7611 8429/8736
F +44 (0)20 7611 8528
E hom@wellcome.ac.uk