Dr. Faith Uwadiae

Faith is an Ecosystems Manager at the Wellcome Trust. Her vision is for academic research to be more positive and inclusive, enabling everyone to thrive. Sadly, this is currently not a reality, but she is working on it. 

Faith works on specific Wellcome research culture initiatives, advises teams across Wellcome on redesigning their funding opportunities to drive better cultures and collaborates with other industry stakeholders to incentivise and transform the research and innovation sector. Faith also leads Wellcome’s work to support Black-led initiatives, which enhance the careers of Black-heritage researchers. 

Before joining Wellcome, Faith spent 10 years in academic research, which included completing a PhD in Immunology at Imperial College London and working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Francis Crick Institute. It is this time in academia, the people she met and their stories and experiences that fuel her passion to revolutionise and change the system for the better. 

Outside of work, Faith is the Queen of taking on new hobbies; currently, this includes cycling and allotment gardening, but in the past, she was obsessed with crocheting and homebrewing beer. Who knows what's next?