Wellcome Open Research

Calling all Wellcome Early Career Researchers…

By Jack Nash

04 March 2019

Last year when our Advisory Board met, there came a point in the meeting where everyone agreed that the board would be enhanced with an injection of individuals who could best represent the many Early Career Researchers (ECRs) supported by Wellcome. It was there and then we made the decision that WOR would create a […]

Open research

Open Research Publishing in the India Alliance Gateway

By Guest Author

07 December 2018

Since the launch of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance gateway on Wellcome Open Research platform at the Fellows meeting in New Delhi, there has been a real drive from the India Alliance (IA) community to publish their research on the platform. Shahid Jameel, CEO, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance and Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome Trust, UK tells us more about open research and the gateway.

Rewarding best practice with Registered Reports

By Guest Author

04 December 2018

Dorothy Bishop, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Oxford, published the first full Registered Report on an open post publication peer review model. Her research published earlier this year in Wellcome Open Research looks at the impact of sex chromosomes on neurodevelopment. Dorothy tells us why she is an enthusiast for this new form of journal article, which is gaining popularity with 142 journals so far adopting this format as part of their regular submission process.

Controlling malaria

By Guest Author

12 November 2018

What are the ethical considerations around volunteer infection? Researchers, Maureen Njue and Dorcas Kamuya, discuss their research presenting one of the first studies of a controlled human malaria infection study in an LMIC, looking at the ethical issues of infecting healthy volunteers. Deliberate infection Controlled Human Malaria Infection (CHMI) studies involve the deliberate infection of healthy […]

face transplants

Theatres of surgery

By Guest Author

02 October 2018

A Q&A with Suzannah Biernoff about her research on the cultural pre-history of face transplants. This is a fascinating piece of research, why did you explore the cultural pre-history of face transplants? A lot of my research over the past decade has dealt with the aesthetics and cultural meanings of disfigurement, including responses to facial […]

Peer Review week

The importance of diversity and inclusion

By Jack Nash

20 September 2018

On Monday 10th September, we gathered at the Wellcome Trust to explore the issues surrounding this year’s theme of ‘diversity and inclusion in peer review’ for peer review week. It was a stimulating discussion chaired by Jim Smith, Director of Science at Wellcome and Wellcome Open Research advisory board member. Here is our summary of the event.