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GW4 Crucible Seed Projects

Participants of the GW4 Crucible leadership development programme are offered the opportunity to apply for funding of up to £5K to enable them to pursue collaborative projects that have emerged from the programme.

Proposals are favoured which are ambitious and bold and seek to generate innovative, multifaceted responses to global challenges. The project may include (but are not limited to) network building and co-production, collaborative working and stakeholder engagement, scoping studies, experimental data collection, prototype design, and trialling new methodological approaches. Proposals must reflect the theme of that year’s Crucible. We encourage both discrete projects and projects designed to act as a stepping stone to large-scale collaborations.

Past activities have included literature reviews and gap analysis, survey design and delivery, stakeholder identification, workshops and sandpits, lab and desk research, game or app design, and away-days and grant writing.


Explore our projects:

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“My autistic brain”: How neurobiological narratives shape the identity of autistic adults
Overview
This project aims to improve understanding of whether and how autistic individuals develop and deploy neuro-narratives. To achieve this, we will hold a public involvement event with autistic adults to find out their understanding of the neurobiology of autism, and how this relates to their identity.
Community lead

University of Bath: Kate Cooper

University of Bristol: Dan Degerman

Cardiff University: Josie Henley (PI), Joanne Doherty

Awarded
July 2022
Building a communicative pathway to reduce AMR; a study of cattle farmers’ perceptions of on-farm E.coli infections in the UK
Overview
We will develop a programme of work focusing on the co-production of knowledge between researchers and farmers to promote prudent antimicrobial usage and desirable disease management practices on farms. We use E. coli prevalence and antimicrobial resistance data aggregated from contemporaneous literature to produce a detailed transmission model of E. coli and antibiotic resistance on the UK cattle farm environment.
Community lead

University of Bath: Sion Bayliss

University of Bristol: Ross Booton, Jonathan Tyrrell

University of Exeter: Ray Chan (PI)

Innovation for Agriculture: Lisa Morgans

Awarded
July 2020
Community Resilience, Place and Wellbeing in Bristol: A Scoping Study
Overview
Our initial scoping study will be set within three Bristol community areas that all experience high levels of social inequality. We want to celebrate what works well, and in collaboration with communities, to identify issues around community cohesion, sense of place, housing, and health.
Community lead

University of Bristol: Michelle Farr, Malu Villela

Cardiff University: Esther Muddiman (PI), Julie Gwilliam, Ria Poole

University of Exeter: Marcus Gomez, Rebecca Pearce, Anna Rabinovich

Awarded
July 2018
Developing a multidisciplinary approach to address the problem of environmental antibiotic pollution surrounding aquaculture farms in Bangladesh
Overview
With this seed funding we will hold a workshop to form a new multi-disciplinary team consisting of researchers from the GW4 institutions and a researcher from Khulna University in Bangladesh, with the aim of seeking novel approaches to address the complex problem of environmental antibiotic pollution surrounding Bangladesh aquaculture farms.
Community lead

University of Bath: Hans-Wilhelm Nuetzmann

Cardiff University: Darrick Evensen, Ludivine Petetin, Emma McKinley

University of Exeter: Kelly Thornber (PI), Rebecca Pearce, Marcus Gomes, Anna Rabinovich, Helen Smith

Khulna University, Bangladesh: M. Moshiur Rahman

Awarded
July 2018
Developing experimental and theoretical models to study antimicrobial resistance and resilience in polymicrobial biofilms
Overview
Overall, the work will establish a versatile framework to investigate antimicrobial efficacy and antimicrobial resistance evolution in diverse PMBs. Additionally, the project will facilitate sharing of experimental and theoretical expertise across the GW4 network and lay the foundation for larger funding applications in the future.
Community lead

University of Bath: Jonathan Nzakizwanayo

University of Bristol: Seána Duggan, Nihal Bandara

University of Exeter: Tobias Bergmiller (PI), Alessandra Da Silva Dantas, Jehangir Cama, Wolfram Moebius

Awarded
July 2020
Development of Predictive Frameworks for Indoor Air Quality
Overview
The long-term goal of this collaborative project is to develop a predictive framework for indoor air quality using an array of more easily measured parameters like energy usage, human activity, and outdoor conditions. To achieve this long-term goal, we request seed funding to perform some first experimental steps and to share the results with the wider GW4 community, with an aim to develop a longer-term collaborative project in this area.
Community lead

University of Bath: Manuel Herrera, Jonathan Norman

University of Bristol: Bryan Bzdek (PI), Dan Schien

Cardiff University: Martin Weinel, Yi Jin

University of Exeter: Kelly Thornber

Awarded
July 2018
Establishing a sustainable interdisciplinary network of GW4 university staff to bring about positive change in the higher education community for improved mental health
Overview
This seed project aims to establish a sustainable GW4 university staff network from different backgrounds and disciplines to better understand poor mental health (MH) in the higher education (HE) community, what is currently being done and further needs. This project will inform future collaborations and applications for funding to scope, develop, implement and evaluate change interventions.
Community lead

University of Bath: Rachel Paskell (PI), Jeff Lambert

University of Bristol: Myles-Jay Linton, Kate Ash-Irisarri, Kayleigh Easey

Cardiff University: Paula Foscarini-Craggs

University of Exeter: Kate Holmes, Irene Salvo, Chris Sandal-Wilson

 

Awarded
July 2022
Exploring antibiotic use practices in livestock production through a novel, game-based approach
Overview
Working with stakeholders (especially farmers in South West England & Wales), this project explores the potential of applying game design features (e.g. goal setting, scoring systems) to investigate antibiotic use practices.
Community lead

University of Bristol: Robert Hughes (Co-PI)

Cardiff University: Nervo Verdezoto

University of Exeter: Matthew Lloyd Jones (Co-PI), Aimee Murray, Max Barnish

Awarded
July 2020
Exposure and environmental engagement: A pilot integrating wearable sensors, air quality and citizen science (EXPO-ENGAGE)
Overview
EXPO-ENGAGE will conduct pilot interdisciplinary research across GW4 on the impact of participation in air quality citizen science on environmental engagement. This is anticipated to provide a basis for further collaborative bids around air pollution, citizen science and environmental engagement.
Community lead

University of Bath: Daniel Fosas de Pando, Elizabeth Marks

Cardiff University: Rachel Hale

University of Exeter: Jo Garrett (PI), Siân de Bell, Stuart Walker

Awarded
July 2021
GW4-PATH: Perception and Attitudes of Technologies for Healthcare
Overview
Via a mixed methods, this collaborative project will seek to address the paucity of evidence in around Novel Healthcare Technologies by probing the general public’s perceptions towards the use of these diverse NHTs by administering a survey to a nationally representative sample.
Community lead

University of Bath: Steffi Colyer, Alexandra Voinescu

University of Bristol: Gemma Lasseter (PI), Sarah Sauchelli Toran (PI), Sabrina Grant

Cardiff University: Heungjae Choi, Tim Pickles, Jinjing Zhang

University of Exeter: Ben Sherlock

Awarded
July 2019
University of Bath
University of Bristol
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