The community aimed to bring together dementia researchers and practitioners across the four GW4 sites, building upon our individual strengths and enabling us to produce a joint strategy for future research and to identify synergies that will maximize chances of securing future funding.

University of Bath: Roy Jones, Robert Williams
University of Bristol: Patrick Kehoe, Seth Love
Cardiff University: Mike Owen, Julie Williams, Nigel Williams, John Gallacher
University of Exeter: Katie Lunnon (PI), Jonathan Mill, David Llewellyn, Iain Lang 

This proposal aimed to build a multidisciplinary Child Injury Research Community (CIRC) with the scale and capability to become a world-class research team.

University of Bristol: Alan Emond
Cardiff University: Alison Kemp (PI), Michael Jones
University of Exeter: Philippe.G.Young

The community aimed to bring together an interdisciplinary team of GW4 researchers capable of substantially advancing knowledge of the impacts of offshore renewables.

University of Bath: Phillipe Blondeli
University of Bristol: Andy Radford, Daniel Robert
Cardiff University: Roger Falconer
University of Exeter: Rick Bruintjes (PI), Steve Simpson, Darren Croft, Matt Witt, Phillipp Thies

This project brought together GW4 researchers and key stakeholders in a showcase and networking event, and established a GW4 Synthetic Biology Strategy Group for leading future cross-institute collaborations.

University of Bath: David Leak
University of Bristol: Paul Race
Cardiff University: Dafydd Jones
University of Exeter: Thomas Howard (PI)

We aimed to establish a GW4 inter-disciplinary community of researchers interested in developing state-of-the-art interventions to generate long-lasting behaviour changes to improve health.

University of Bath: Fiona Gillison, Afroditi Stathi, Julie Barnett
University of Bristol: Anne Haase, Simon Sebire, Russ Jago
Cardiff University: Sharon Simpson, Graham Moore
University of Exeter: Jane R Smith (PI), Charles Abraham, Colin Greaves

The community brought together investigators from GW4 with overlapping, yet wide-ranging interests that relate to paramagnetism, in order to tackle big-scale, high-risk high-reward problems in the field.

University of Bath: Mike Whittlesey (PI)
University of Bristol: Robin Bedford
Cardiff University: Damien Murphy

We aimed to establish a GW4 Epigenetics Consortium that capitalised on the complementary strengths in clinical, population-based and experimental research conducted in this general domain at GW4 institutions.

University of Bath: Andrew Ward, Adele Murrell
University of Bristol: Caroline Relton (PI), Matthew Hickman
Cardiff University: Anthony Isles, Stan Zammit
University of Exeter: Jonathan Mill, Katie Lunnon

Advances in information and communication technologies – including human-computer interaction, intelligent information processing, “big data” and social media – have led to new possibilities for how people and machines can live and work collectively: making best cumulative use of each other’s strengths and ameliorating each other’s weaknesses.

University of Bath: Peter Johnson
University of Bristol: Alex Bentley
Cardiff University: Alun Preece (PI)
University of Exeter: Roger Maull

This community brought together GW4 expertise in the area of Cognitive Bias Modification to generate a strategy for future collaboration in this area.

University of Bath: Sally Adams
University of Bristol: Ian Penton-Voak (PI)
Cardiff University: Chris Chambers
University of Exeter:  Anna Adlam