Wellcome Call for Applications: Doctoral Programmes for Healthcare Professionals

Wellcome calls for applications for the Doctoral Programmes for Healthcare Professionals to fund doctoral programmes for healthcare professionals registered in the UK and Republic of Ireland. 

This call will not directly fund individual fellows – please do not apply with your own doctoral project.

Who can apply?

• You can apply to this call to renew an existing programme or to secure funding for a new programme. 
• Applications must be from a team of established researchers. The lead applicant will be the lead Director of the programme and there can be up to seven coapplicants who will be co-directors of the programme. Together, they will form the programme leadership team. Coapplicants may be based at the same organisation as the lead applicant, or at a different eligible organisation as part of a consortium application (where the programme is hosted across multiple organisations). 
• The lead applicant must be based at an eligible host organisation in the UK. Co-applicants on consortium applications can be based at an eligible organisation in the UK or the Republic of Ireland.
• We encourage applications from teams that are diverse and interdisciplinary, covering multiple areas of expertise and professional backgrounds. 
• All applicants must be from eligible organisations that can sign up to our grant conditions. We expect all applying organisations to be supportive of the proposed programmes.

Funding details: 

• The exact amount awarded will depend on the size and scope of the programme proposed. We expect to fund approximately 12 programmes with an average award value of £12 million. 
• 5 cohorts with the first intake in autumn 2027

Read here for more information. 

Application deadline, 10th of February 2026.