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: Lorenzo Caggiano (PI) and Julien Licchesi
University of Bristol: Kathreena Kurian
Cardiff University: Chris Marshall & Stephen Paisey
University of Exeter: Jacqueline Whatmore
University of Bath: Tina Skinner
University of Bristol: Geetanjali Gangoli & Marianne Hester
Cardiff University: Kirsty Hudson
University of Exeter: Rachel Fenton (PI) & Cassandra Jones (co-PI)
University of Bath: James Gregory
Cardiff University: Valerie Walkerdine
University of Exeter: Joel Krueger (PI), Aliette Lambert
University of Bath: Richard Ball, Chris Bowen (joint PIs)
University of Bristol: Valeska Ting
Cardiff University: Robert Davies, Diane Gardner
University of Exeter: Yanqiu Zhu, Meiling Zhu
University of Bath: David Tosh
University of Bristol: Craig McArdle
Cardiff University: Xin Yang
University of Exeter: Stefano Pagliara (PI)
University of Bath: Paul Higate
University of Bristol: Tim Edmunds
Cardiff University: Victoria Basham (PI) and Huw Bennett
University of Exeter: Owen Thomas
University of Bath: Martin Fullekrug
University of Bristol: Dudley Shallcross
Cardiff University: Daniel Mitchard (PI)
University of Exeter: Timothy Hill
University of Bath: Dr Maria Garcia (PI)
University of Bristol: Dr Clair Gammage
Cardiff University: Dr Jo Hunt
University of Exeter: Dr David Thackeray
University of Bath: Rachel Arnold (PI)
University of Bristol: Peter Turnbull
Cardiff University: Andy Smith
University of Exeter: Sam Vine
University of Bath: Lizzi Milligan, Peter Manning
University of Bristol: Julia Paulson (PI)
Cardiff University: Kate Moles
University of Exeter: Catriona Pennell & Kelsey Shanks (now University of Ulster)