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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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Rethinking Healthy Spaces: Evidence, Evaluation and Design
Crucible 2017
Overview
Building a sustainable, interdisciplinary GW4-based research network on the design of healthy spaces and, within this, the roles of evidence and evaluation.
Community lead

University of Bath: Oli Williams

University of Bristol: Victoria Bates (PI), Lucy Selman

Cardiff University: Des Fitzgerald, Hannah Pitt

Awarded
September 2017
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
University of Bath
University of Bristol
Cardiff University
University of Exeter