Welsh Crucible is designed to answer these questions and provide Welsh researchers with the skills to capitalise on their research and research collaborations. Based on NESTA’s highly successful leadership and development programme for researchers, Welsh Crucible enables thirty highly promising scientists, social scientists and scholars to come together to explore and expand their innovative potential through a series of three intensive, two-day residential workshops called ‘labs’.

Welsh Crucible is designed for talented early- to mid-career researchers employed by Universities in the St David’s Day Group (Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Swansea), or working in research and development in Wales in business, industry or the service sector. Participants already have a high level of achievement in their field and an ongoing commitment to a career in research in Wales (within academia or beyond).

Funding Information

The 2012 Welsh Crucible is a collaborative initiative funded by the St David’s Day Group of universities (Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Glamorgan, and Swansea). The funding will allow 30 of Wales’s most promising researchers to participate in the second Welsh Crucible. The original Welsh Crucible programme was developed with funding from HEFCW and the partner institutions, and based on the Crucible model developed by NESTA.