Genomics in Context: Funding collaboration at the intersection of genomics, humanities and social sciences, and social partners

The Discovery Research team at Wellcome have explored how ethics, other fields of humanities and social science, and community priorities can be balanced before the research agenda and design are defined. Wellcome held a series of ethical, legal and social contexts in genomics workshops. A report on the workshop series and an article in Nature Reviews Genetics have been published.

As a result Wellcome have launched a funding opportunity to stimulate team building and collaboration at the intersection of genomics, humanities and social sciences, and social partners (Genomics in Context Awards - Research Funding | Wellcome).

This presentation will lay out the context of this project and explain the funding opportunity for researchers and communities.

About Dr Peter Kilroy

Dr Peter Kilroy is a Senior Research Manager in the Discovery Research Team at the Wellcome Trust in the UK. He works closely with researchers and teams to explore creative, critical, theoretical and engaged approaches to the arts, humanities and social sciences. He comes from a background in academia working across the fields of cultural studies, anthropology, postcolonial studies and Indigenous studies at the University of Leeds, King’s College London and City St George’s, University of London. During his time as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Menzies Australia Institute at King’s, he co-founded the King’s Indigenous platform, a portfolio of strategic partnerships between King’s and Australian higher education institutions, funding Indigenous visiting fellowships in the fields of law, education and health.