Wellcome Digital
News and ideas from the digital team at the Wellcome Trust. We use this blog to share our work and think out loud. If you have ideas or questions, please leave a comment or get in touch.
Happy birthday Wellcome Funding platform!
Happy birthday Wellcome Funding platform!
A year ago, we launched the new Wellcome Funding platform to applicants. Read on for our highlights and a photo of a really big rock.
A Year in the Life of a Delivery Manager
A Year in the Life of a Delivery Manager
I joined the Wellcome Trust in January 2022 as a Delivery Manager in the Data and Digital team. This was a new role for me. My background…
Growing our understanding of users who apply for research funding
Growing our understanding of users who apply for research funding
For almost a year I’ve been working on our Funding Experience team looking at how we can improve the user experience of funding applicants…
The value of sharing prototypes
The value of sharing prototypes
Designing global data sharing to tackle diversity in health sciences
Risky, but rewarding.. a cross-functional team’s discovery project during uncertain times
Risky, but rewarding.. a cross-functional team’s discovery project during uncertain times
This piece was co-written by Aoife Spengeman and Kristine Nielsen.
How we set short-term Objectives & Key Results for long term goals
How we set short-term Objectives & Key Results for long term goals
For the digital product teams at Wellcome, the end of a quarter can only mean one thing: it’s OKR season.
Reflecting on the Global Mental Health Databank Project, Lived Experiences and Youth Participation
Reflecting on the Global Mental Health Databank Project, Lived Experiences and Youth Participation
he Global Mental Health Databank (GMHD) is an exploratory project asking whether it is possible to build a user-controlled databank that…
Explorify’s approach to building accessible web content
Explorify’s approach to building accessible web content
Web accessibility can be tricky to demonstrate. Many features added to help make websites accessible are not visible to the naked eye and…
