Wellcome Mental Health Funding: Grants for Youth Research

Organisation; Wellcome

Administering organisation location: Anywhere in the world (apart from china)

Funding duration: 3-4 years

Strategic programme: Mental health

Coapplicants: Required

Application deadline: 14 July 2026

OVERVIEW
Wellcome fund research to improve life, health, and wellbeing through new knowledge and understanding. Wellcome strategic programmes include; discovery research, climate and health, infectious disease and mental health.

Mental health award, using physical activity and circadian-based interventions to reduce anxiety and depression in young people.This award will fund mechanistically informed trials of interventions for anxiety and depression in young people.aged 10-18 years.succefully team will build on existing mechanistic evidence to develop more precise and effective early intervention that have potential to scale.

BENEFITIS

As an established researcher, you will have the experience needed to drive and lead a research programme.
You will have a track record of training and managing others.
If applying as a lead applicant, you will have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract
an established researcher can hold one Discovery Award where they are sole applicant and also as the lead team.
an established researcher can be a coapplicant on other wellcome awards.

PRIZE

€ 1-4 million per grant
Wellcome are expecting to make 5-10 awards in this highly competitive funding call
Funding duration is 3-4 years

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF PEOPLE INVOLVED

Lead applicants to create and submit a grant application. They have intellectual ownership of the application and the project,but if they have coapplicants ownership is shared. Lead application are accountable for:

How grant activities are completed
The financial management of the grant
Complying with Wellcome’s condition of the award.

Coapplicants must make significant and essential contributions to the research proposal, be based at an eligible organisation, and meet the call or scheme’s eligibility and suitability criteria
Guest editor. A Lead applicant can give Guest editors access to their application form so they can help review and edit it. They can’t submit applications
Sponsor. They must have an established post at the applicant’s administering organisation for the duration of the award, give the applicant research guidance, support the applicant’s development throughout the grant, have a strong track record in research, training and mentorship, and confirm the organisation support for the applicant.
Mentor. They should have a track record in training and mentorship, and support and guide the applicant on how to:

Manage their application
Develop their research career
Manage the process and regulations at the administering organisation

n/b: a sponsor can also be the mentor for the lead applicant

Collaborators. they support the delivery of the project but don’t lead on a specific component of the researcher, They support by:

Sharing facilities
Providing access to the resources
Provide expertise on working in different countries
Sharing subject-specific knowledge and guidance

WHO CAN APPLY?

From any relevant discipline. Wellcome consider a broad range of discipline to be relevant to mental health science
From eligible organisations
Based anywhere in the world, apart from mainland china
Diverse and interdisciplinary, with collaborations covering multiple area of expertise
Researchers at any stage of their career
New researchers to the field of mental health science

How to apply

Visit the official link for application

For more information visit their official page