Venue: Powell lecture theatre, Physics Building OR online (Zoom link: https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94188698944?pwd=WkJVVnJnTEc0ZGhpcVk5UzYya0VCQT09 and Meeting ID: 941 8869 8944 and Passcode: 982306); please attend in person if possible 

Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust, will be visiting the University of Bristol on 25^th March, along with colleagues: Cheryl Moore (Director of Research Programmes) and Michael Dunn (Director of Discovery Research) as previously announced, and they have now said they will also be bringing with them Alan Dangour (Director of Climate and Health), Miranda Wolpert (Director of Mental Health), Diego Baptista (Head of Research and Funding Equity), Jo Asphall (Associate Director (Strategy & Programme Office)), and Riz Issa (Associate Director (Communications)). 

They will give a presentation on Wellcome’s new vision and strategy, followed by an opportunity to ask questions and share perspectives. 

Wellcome’s new strategy focuses on discovery research that has the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing; applications for funding that meet this remit are welcomed from researchers in any discipline.

In addition to this broad portfolio of discovery research, they are developing programmes of work to tackle three ‘urgent health challenges’: mental health, infectious disease, and climate and health.

Diversity and inclusion, and support for a positive research culture, are central to their strategy.    

Please do come along and hear more from Wellcome and take the opportunity to ask questions and give your perspectives on their new strategy. 

If you would like to attend the event, please register through this  online registration form if you have not done so already. As part of the registration form we are asking you to submit any questions you currently have that you would like addressed during the Q&A, so that we have some questions in advance to help with the smooth running of that session. The session will be recorded and made available afterwards, but we are encouraging people to attend in person if possible. 

In addition to questions for the Q&A session, if there are other issues or topics you would like us to raise with Wellcome during their visit or for follow-up afterwards, please send them to Zoe Holland (zoe.holland@bristol.ac.uk).