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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.
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Charting New Frontiers: An Exploratory Expedition and Pilot Study on Chattable Virtual Avatars, Unveiling Ethical and Social Dimensions in Content Delivery
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Panic around pandemics: A case study for applying natural language processing to historical archives to identify patterns of discriminatory language
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Reshaping Learning in the Digital Era – How Does ChatGPT Affect Our Learning Performance, Experience and Attitude
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ARTiD (Artificial Intelligence for Dementia)
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Computing the Student: Developing participatory methods to research digital surveillance in UKHE
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Precision Maggot Therapy Against Key Cystic Fibrosis Pathogens
Crucible 2020
Overview
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited life-limiting disease exacerbated by chronic lung infections. People with CF require frequent and aggressive antimicrobial treatments throughout their life. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is therefore of great concern for CF patients and new therapies are urgently needed. This project proposes an ambitious pilot study to investigate a personalised alternative treatment against key bacterial and fungal CF pathogens.
Community lead
University of Bath: Neil Brown
University of Bristol: Jonathan Tyrrell
Cardiff University: Manon Pritchard, Rebecca Weiser
University of Exeter: Philip Mitchelmore (PI)
Awarded
September 2020
Robots for Disasters: Trust and Resilience Under Pressure
Crucible 2019
Overview
We propose to hold a workshop to begin the development of a multidisciplinary framework which considers how groups of agents (human, robot or otherwise) gain (in)accurate insight into the safety or danger of their environment using multiple sensory inputs and digital technology.
Community lead
University of Bristol: Edmund Hunt (PI)
Cardiff University: Alexia Zoumpoulaki
University of Exeter: Laura Colebrooke, Avelie Stuart
Awarded
September 2019
Mind the Gap: Implications of the digital divide on healthcare inequalities during the NHS digital transformation, for patients with long term conditions
Crucible 2019
Overview
Our study aims to see how health care professionals (HCPs), e.g. General Practitioners (GPs) and nurses use digital healthcare tools in practices, and whether they are able to pass on the benefits of digital interventions to patients on both sides of the digital divide. We will discuss these issues in focus groups and interviews. We will complement these findings with a brief online survey.
Community lead
University of Bath: Ben Ainsworth (Co-PI), Charlotte Dack (Co-PI)
University of Bristol: Kate Binnie, Sabrina Grant, Gemma Lasseter, Sophie Turnbull
University of Exeter: Laura Colebrooke, Barbara Silarova
Awarded
September 2019
GW4-PATH: Perception and Attitudes of Technologies for Healthcare
Crucible 2019
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
Developing a multidisciplinary approach to address the problem of environmental antibiotic pollution surrounding aquaculture farms in Bangladesh
Crucible 2018
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
September 2018
The Resilience Games
Crucible 2018
Overview
We propose to design and co-produce “The Resilience Games” to enthuse and engage 9 to 13 year old children with the complex challenge of creating resilient societies. Through interdisciplinary collaboration (involving environmental social science, economic geography, engineering, health psychology, arts, law and policy), The Games will foster interactive learning and introduce children to multiple facets of resilience around a range of topics; including preparedness to natural hazards, water and food security and sustainable natural resource management.
Community lead
University of Bath: Giorgia Giardina
Cardiff University: Meghan Alexander (PI), Adrian Healy, Zhihua Zie, Ludivine Petetin, Ria Poole
University of Exeter: Helen Smith
Awarded
September 2018
Development of Predictive Frameworks for Indoor Air Quality
Crucible 2018
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
September 2018
Community Resilience, Place and Wellbeing in Bristol: A Scoping Study
Crucible 2018
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
September 2018
Incubator Event: Longitudinal Phenotypic and Molecular Profile of Mental Health Trajectories in GW4 Doctoral Students
Crucible 2017
Overview
To facilitate the development of this research proposal the team hosted an ‘Incubator event’ to springboard the study forward to the next stage by developing a wide network of collaborators and refining the project design prior to writing a larger grant for funding (e.g. Wellcome Trust or MRC). The initial research program grant will focus on generating pilot data from two GW4 institutions, University of Exeter and University of Bristol and forging multi-disciplinary collaborations.
Community lead
University of Bath: Pete Rouse
University of Bristol: Diana Dos Santos Ferreira, Sarah Sullivan
University of Exeter: Therese Murphy (PI)
Awarded
September 2017
Identifying the key opportunities and challenges to the adoption of diagnostic point-of-care technology (POCT) in a healthcare setting
Crucible 2017
Overview
The project involved conducting a series of scoping activities to explore the potential stakeholders involved in lab-on-chip (LOC) or point-of-care technologies (POCTs) designed to detect bio-markers for specific health conditions. The group organised a one-day early-career workshop on diagnostics for antimicrobial resistance in London. Furthermore, the team arranged and attended several meetings to engage stakeholders and possible collaborators.
Community lead
University of Bath: Joanne Cranwell (PI), Despina Moschou
University of Bristol: Fabio Parmeggiana
Cardiff University: Hantao Liu
Awarded
September 2017
