Welsh Crucible has won the Times Higher Education’s 2013 award for Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development. Judged to be an initiative which has delivered “game-changing impacts on attitudes and behaviours”, the Welsh Crucible has beaten off competition from five other…
Welsh Crucible at the European Parliament
Welsh Crucible visited Brussels earlier this week to showcase the benefits of the programme at a reception in the European Parliament. This was a chance for MEPs and the members of the European Commission to hear more about the ways…
Edwina Hart AM Hosts Welsh Crucible Event
Edwina Hart, Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science, today hosted an event reviewing the successes of Welsh Crucible to date and celebrating its continuation for the next two years. Speakers at the event, held at the Senedd Building in…
Additional two years’ funding and a broader remit for Welsh Crucible
Supporting Wales’ brightest minds Support for the most talented researchers in Welsh universities, public, private and third sector organisations to work together and make a real impact on the well-being of Wales has been given a welcome boost. The continuation…
Collaborations Start to Emerge at 3rd Lab in Bangor
The 2012 Welsh Crucible participants met this week for the third and final lab in Bangor, where they started planning a number of interdisciplinary collaborations. The 2012 cohort also examined ways of becoming more enterprising and creative in their work…
Welsh Crucible Participants Identify Grand Challenges in Research
Welsh Crucible’s 2012 particpants met for the second lab in Swansea on the 28th and 29th of June. This Lab focused on building research networks. Participants were joined in their discussions about Grand Challenges in research by the Chief Scientific…
Welsh Crucible 2012 Launched in Cardiff
The 2012 Welsh Crucible participants met for the first time yesterday at our first lab in Cardiff. This two day event, which was co-hosted by Cardiff and Glamorgan Universities, saw each of the thirty deliver short presentations about their work,…
Participants Selected for Welsh Crucible 2012
The 30 participants for the 2012 Welsh Crucible have now been selected. This year’s group will be made up of researchers from a broad mix of disciplines from Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Glamorgan and Swansea Universities, as well as from Tata…
Funding Secured for Welsh Crucible 2012
Following the success of the 2011 programme, we are pleased to announce that we have received funding from the St David’s Day Group of Universities (Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Glamorgan and Swansea) to run Welsh Crucible again in 2012. Professor Peter…
The Western Mail’s Welsh Crucible Series Starts Today
Today’s Western Mail contains a feature article about the Welsh Crucible programme, as well as the first in a thirty week series of research profiles by Welsh Crucible participants. The article locates the Welsh Crucible initiative in the context of…