ScotPEN Wellcome Engagement Award

ScotPEN has been awarded funding of £500,000 from Wellcome to initiate a new 18 month pilot collaboration to support Wellcome grant holders in Scotland to engage the public with their research. The funding pilot is designed to improve the quality and quantity of successful research engagement projects and increase opportunities for institutional collaborations. The ScotPEN Wellcome Engagement Award (SWEA) will replace Wellcome’s Research Enrichment for Public Engagement scheme for those based in Scottish universities and research institutes.In addition to acting as a local funding body, SWEA will offer Wellcome grant holders access to public engagement support and training opportunities designed to improve and enhance their public engagement funding applications. The University of Glasgow, University of St Andrews, University of Dundee, Univerity of Aberdeen, and University of Edinburgh are contributing to the steering group for this pilot award as supporters of ScotPEN.Arrangements for the scheme are being finalised and applications will open in summer 2019. More details will be posted shortly.