Career Guidance for Trainees Grant

The Career Guidance for Trainees Grant, offered by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, aims to enhance the career development of early career administrators focused on PhD scientists. This grant supports a workshop that equips participants with research evaluation skills to create impactful career-focused interventions. Participants will receive a $15,000 grant to implement their projects, develop networks, and share findings at national meetings, fostering a diverse scientific workforce essential for research innovation and public service.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.
BWF’s financial support is channeled primarily through competitive peer-reviewed award programs.
BWF makes grants primarily to degree-granting institutions on behalf of individual researchers. To complement these competitive award programs, BWF also makes grants to nonprofit organizations conducting activities intended to improve the general environment for science.
BWF believes that a diverse scientific workforce is essential to the process and advancement of research innovation, academic discovery, and public service.
About The Award
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund announces a workshop for early career administrators whose work focuses on the career development of PhD scientists.
The workshop will develop participants’ research evaluation skills while creating new career-focused interventions or activities for use at the participants’ home institutions. In the year following the workshop, participants will each develop their research and evaluation networks, run their project with support from a $15,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, submit their results for presentation at a national meeting, and produce a rigorously prepared manuscript for publication.
Who may apply?
Academic administrators whose work is at least 80% focused on career development activities focused on graduate students or postdoctoral fellows at a research-focused institution in the United States or Canada and who have been in this type of role for at least three years (36 months) but not more than seven years (84 months) may apply.
Employees of both non-profit degree granting institutions and independent research institutes may apply.
Successful applicants typically run substantial activities within graduate career centers, postdoctoral offices, or interdepartmental graduate programs.
Some, but not most, faculty serve appropriate roles—the requirement for 80% effort is a good guide.
This workshop is not targeted to education researchers or trainees in education research unless they meet all other requirements above (time in position, 80% effort focused on providing career development to grad students and/or postdocs).