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 and were joined by a number of speakers, including academic-turned-fashion designer Professor Richard Weston.
Datblygu Arweinwyr y Dyfodol i Gymru - Developing future research leaders for Wales
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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 Adviser for Wales, Professor John Harries. The thirty participants also worked together on developing strategies
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, as well as begin to ask questions about who and what their research is for.
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 Steel and Barnardo’s Cymru. The group will get together for the first time in Cardiff
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 Halligan, academic lead on the Welsh Crucible programme, comments “building on last year’s experience, the
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 the broader efforts being made by Welsh universities to collaborate and draw upon the very
Welsh Crucible, and three of its participants, was featured on today’s edition of ‘Wales at Work’ on Radio Wales in an item about developing enterprise skills in academia.
The Welsh Crucible Participants met for the final Lab in Swansea on the 7th and 8th July. In this event participants explored ways of improving their creativity and enterprise skills. The group heard from entrepreneur Dr Jo Macpherson, one of the founders of drug delivery company Q Chip Ltd; and Professor Chris Price of Aberystwyth
The thirty Welsh Crucible participants were reunited in Aberystwyth on the 9th and 10th of June for the second Welsh Crucible Lab. This two day event focused on collaboration and building research networks, with the group working together to examine the grand challenges currently faced by researchers in Wales, as well as looking at the
Participants met in Cardiff for the first two-day residential lab on the 5th and 6th of May. The lab, with its focus on ‘looking outwards’ was facilitated by Vivienne Parry, the science writer and broadcaster, and covered topics such as public engagement, media engagement and engaging with policy and policy makers. The speakers included Professor
