Seeking predictors of vaccine efficacy: identifying correlates of protection to support vaccine development

Lead applicant

If you are based in the UK or Republic of Ireland, you cannot ask for your salary.

You can ask for a contribution to your salary if you are based in another high-income country (not UK or ROI) or a low-and middle-income country (LMICs) and hold a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract that states that you have to get your salary from external grant funding.

If you work at a charity, NGO, social enterprise or commercial organisation, you can request salary. Wellcome requires lead applicants to be completing research and leading a research team. Your charity would have to be capable of signing up to Wellcome's grant conditions and carrying out the research.

The amount we pay will be proportionate to the time you contribute to the award, for example if you contribute 30% of your time to the award we will fund 30% of your salary.

You will have to contribute at least 20% of your research time to this award.

Your administering organisation must confirm:

• that your employment contract states you must get salary recovery from external grant funding
• that they will underwrite the salary and post for the period of time that you will be working on the grant.

Coapplicants

Coapplicants must contribute at least 20% of their research time to this programme.

If any coapplicant employed on your grant holds a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract that states that they have to get their salary from external grant funding, you can ask us for a contribution to their salary in your application.

The amount we pay will be proportionate to the time they contribute to the award, for example if they contribute 30% of their time to the award we will fund 30% of their salary.

Your host organisation must confirm:

• that the coapplicant’s employment contract states they must get salary recovery from external grant funding
• that they will underwrite the salary and post for the period of time that the person will be working on the grant

Coapplicants can also ask for salary where they:

• Are employed by a charity, social enterprise or commercial organisation. The amount they request must be proportionate to the time they will spend on the grant.
• Don’t have a permanent, open ended or long-term rolling contract and they:
  • Will spend 80% of their time on this grant. In this case, they can ask for their full salary. Their post does not need to be underwritten and can be contingent on the application being successful.
  • Will spend less than 80% of their time on the grant. In this case, they can request salary proportionate to the time they will spend on the grant. The host organisation must guarantee space and salary support if they cannot get it from other sources for the period of time they are working on the grant. Their post cannot be contingent on the application being successful.
  • Are employed on the award as post graduate research assistants. If they are to spend 100% of their time on the award, their post does not need to be underwritten by the host organisation and can be contingent on the application being successful.

Alternatively, coapplicants may get their salary through employment on another grant.

Staff working on your programme

We will cover the salary costs of all staff, full or part-time, who will work on your grant.

Staff members may include:

• research assistants or technicians employed on your grant
• specialist service staff, for example data analysis, fieldwork and clinical studies
• project manager, if you have multiple applicants on your programme
• support if you or a member of staff employed on your grant is disabled or has a long-term health condition – see 'Disability-related adjustment support'

Teaching buyout

If you’re a humanities and social science researcher, you can ask for funds for research or teaching replacement to cover the cost of a temporary replacement lecturer. You must retain at least a 10% commitment to teaching.

Costs:

• can cover up to 33% FTE of your contracted time are usually for a person at a more junior level than the postholder
• can be spread across the full period of the grant

If you already get buyout costs from another grant (funded by Wellcome or elsewhere), you can ask us for this cost, but only for the period of time on your Award when you won't receive buyout costs from another grant.

You must provide a letter from your employing organisation, confirming that your contract includes a teaching commitment. You should include this in your grant application.

PhD fees

We do not provide studentships on this award. But if applicants employ a research assistant on the grant, they can ask for the costs to cover their PhD fees. Each applicant can ask for PhD fees for one research assistant at a time on the grant.

We will only pay the international student fee rate for low- and middle-income nationals who are registered to study for a PhD in a high-income country. In all other situations, we will pay home student fees.