All communities are listed below in date order (newest first), and can be searched using key words or fund type.
Our “Featured Communities” are from the most recent round of Generator funding.
Our communities
The GW4 Building Communities Programme aims to build research and innovation communities of scale and capability, delivering a step change in world-class research that could not be achieved by one of the institutions alone. The Programme has two funding schemes:
- The annual Generator Fund which awards GW4 communities up to £20K for 6 month projects (launched in 2020). This replaced the Initiator (up to £20K for 5 months) and Accelerator (up to £75K for 8 months) funding schemes, which ran from 2014 – 2019.
- The Development Awards which support new, and advance existing, collaborations across GW4 by funding single activities or resources with up to £5K. This is a rolling scheme, with no closing date.
More details of both schemes, and how to apply, can be found at the links above.
Building Communities funding supports both the creation of new GW4 communities and the development of the strongest ideas emerging from our existing communities, and is open to any academic area. To date, the GW4 Alliance has invested over £3.4M in 125 collaborative research communities, which have generated £87M in research income. This means that for every £1 GW4 spends on collaborative research communities, GW4 captures an impressive £25 in external research awards.
Research integrity
The GW4 Alliance has adopted the Russell Group Research Integrity Statement of cooperation in cross-institutional research misconduct allegations, which aims to support the efforts of researcher communities to foster research integrity (also known as good practice in research or the responsible conduct of research).
Explore our communities
University of Bath: Tom Barry (PI), Jeffrey Lambert, Edmund Keogh
University of Bristol: Myles Jay-Linton
Cardiff University: James Gregory, Paul Willis
University of Exeter: Christopher Begeny
University of Bath: Jason Alexander, Ollie Hanton
University of Bristol: Elaine Czech (co-PI), Oussama Metatla, Anne Roudaut, Paul Marshall
Cardiff University: Kathy Stawarz, Sandy Gould, Nervo Verdezoto Dias
University of Exeter: Andrew Howes
and including University of the West of England: Cameron Steer (co-PI), Tom Mitchell
University of Bath: Michael Zachariadis
University of Bristol: Andrew Hermann
Cardiff University: Catherine Naseriyan
University of Exeter: Raif Yuecel (PI)
University of Bath: Naomi Pendle
University of Bristol: Isabella Aboderin
Cardiff University: Ambreena Manji
University of Exeter: Stacey Hynd (PI)
With additional collaborators at Bath Spa University: John Strachan & Victoria Ellen Smith
Cardiff University: Elliott Rees, Michael Owen, Nicholas Bray, Alexandros Rammos, Eilidh Fenner, Alexandros Delimichalis, Valentina Escott-Price
University of Exeter: Nicholas Clifton (PI), Rosemary Bamford, Szi-Kay Leung, Eilis Hannon, Kartik Chundru, Robin Beaumont, Jonathan Mill
University of Bath: Xiaohan Xue
University of Bristol: Jin Zheng (PI), Richard D F Harris
Cardiff University: Qingwei Wang, Aman Eshraghi
University of Exeter: Jane Shen
University of Bath: Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, Eleonora Fichera, Sayli Javadekar
University of Bristol: Uta Bolt, Sarah Smith, Christine Valente
Cardiff University: Ezgi Kaya, Luisanna Onnis, Serena Trucchi
University of Exeter: Javier Garcia-Brazales (Co-PI), Laura Munoz-Blanco (Co-PI), Sonia Oreffice, Sanchari Roy,