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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:

All communities are listed below in alphabetical order, and can be searched using key words or fund type.

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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
University of Bath
University of Bristol
Cardiff University
University of Exeter