“Game-changing” Welsh Crucible programme opens latest round of recruitment for exceptional researchers across Wales. Welsh Crucible is looking for exceptional researchers from across Wales to apply for this year’s award-winning programme. Now in its twelfth year, the programme will offer…
What do you want to be known for?
David Towsey describes an unexpected collaboration formed in the months since his participation at Welsh Crucible 2017. “What do you want to be known for?” That was just one of the many questions posed to our cohort over the course of Welsh…
From small acorns
Aditee Mitra from Welsh Crucible 2012 has been awarded a €2.88 million Horizon 2020 grant. Here Aditee explains how Welsh Crucible was instrumental in this recent success. I applied for a place in the Welsh Crucible in 2012. I…
Welsh Crucible/Learned Society of Wales Award Winners Announced
An innovative project exploring experiences of infertility through arts workshops has won the Welsh Crucible/Learned Society of Wales Award for the Best Collaborative Welsh Crucible Project 2011-2015. The award was presented to the PI of the winning project, Dr Sofia…
Learned Society of Wales
We were proud to represent the Welsh Crucible at the Celebration Evening in November to mark the award of a Royal Charter to The Learned Society of Wales. The Society will be supporting the programme in 2016-17 and helping us to…
Welsh Crucible alumni event: Innovation Partnership Wales (IPW)
Welsh Crucible alumni are helping stimulate innovation and multi-disciplinary collaboration between researchers and business through a new partnership initiative launching tonight. The Partnership led by Airbus, Welsh Crucible, Welsh Government, IQE and National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) will launch the…
Welsh Crucible wins Times Higher Award
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…