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: Hannah Leese
University of Bristol: Daniel Whitcomb (PI)
Cardiff University: Sam Shutts
University of Exeter: Tom Piers
University of Bath: Sarah Halligan
University of Bristol: Lucy Biddle, Becky Mars, Bushra Farooq, Dee Knipe
Cardiff University: Faith Martin (PI), Rhiannon Evans
University of Exeter: Abby Russell
University of Bath: Frank Marken, Andrew Rhead
University of Bristol: Steve Eichhorn
Cardiff University: Stefano Leoni, Bo Hou
University of Exeter: Zhenyu Zhang (PI), Xiaohong Li
University of Bath: Carly McKay
Cardiff University: Rebecca Hemming (PI)
University of Exeter: Richard Kyle
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: Emma Fisher, Laura Carter, Amanda Lillywhite
University of Bristol: Jim Dunham, Robert Drake
Cardiff University: George Tackley, Jennifer Davies
University of Exeter: Charlotte Lawrenson (PI), Jan Vollert, Sam Hughes
University of Bath: Sophie Whiting, Jennifer Thomson
University of Bristol: Neil Matthews
Cardiff University: Thomas Leahy (PI), Giada Lagana, Jonathan Kirkup, Huw Bennett, Jessica Geoffroy, Daniel Chesse, Robbie Taylor
University of Exeter: Henry Jarrett