@cardiffuni.bsky.social hosted the Secretary of State for Science Innovation and Technology, Liz Kendall, for an exciting announcement of the creation of a new AI Growth Zone in South Wales:

www.linkedin.com/posts/scitec...

📅 Deadline: Monday, 2 Feb 2026
📆 Project duration: June–Nov 2026

Communities are encouraged to use the scheme as a stepping stone to external funding.

👉 Apply & guidance here: gw4.ac.uk/generator-fu...
🎥 Watch application tips from GW4's Building Communities Manager: tinyurl.com/bd7xsf6h

The Generator Fund is designed to:

✅ Build new GW4 research communities
✅ Develop the strong ideas from existing ones
✅ Provide seed funding to for researchers to test concepts & innovate

Open to any research area w/ ECRs especially encouraged to apply!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make this celebration of innovation and collaborative research such a success.

Read our events recap and explore a gallery of photos on our website: gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-inn...

Featuring a fantastic keynote speech by Dame Chi Onwurah MP (Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West) and Chair, Science Innovation and Technology Committee, the event highlighted the power of collaboration and the strength of our region’s vibrant research and innovation ecosystem.

Full info and registration link here: sign up by 28 October 2025! gw4.ac.uk/events/gw4-a...

Any questions? Contact us at [email protected]

There will also be:
✅ lightning talks to introduce your research;
✅ roundtable discussions on AMR challenges, to scope ideas for projects;
✅info on GW4 funding opportunities;
✅info on our cross-institutional mentorship programme;
✅the launch of our AMR research discussion sessions for 2026.

Participants will:
💊Network and meet new collaborators across GW4;
💊Brainstorm and discuss AMR challenges;
💊Scope ideas for new cross-institutional collaborative projects and communities.

🎆The workshop is open to all GW4-based academics and investigators (including final-year doctoral students) with an interest in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), from any discipline.

Open to GW4 academics, PSS staff and PGRs (or studying at GW4 unis until June 2026).

Deadline to apply: Midday, Wednesday 22 October.

Don’t miss out! buff.ly/zbS1QJP

You’ll also:

💡 Collaborate with GW4 colleagues in different roles

🎨 Experience creative forms of learning and facilitation

🌐 Join a network of peers across GW4 to share ideas and tackle challenges

Participants will:

✅ Deepen understanding of the systems and behaviours that support research culture

✅ Develop new ways of thinking

✅Take part in practical knowledge-sharing

Facilitated by @64M_Artists, the programme uses workshops and online check-ins to spark bold conversations and drive real change in research culture.

Plus we're launching our new pilot programme 'GW4 Re-Culture' - a Research Culture Change Programme exploring enhanced research culture through creativity, collaboration and leadership development:

gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-lea...

Celebrating its 10-year anniversary, #GW4Crucible 2026, offers an opportunity for #ECRs from a range of disciplines to come together and initiate new collaborations and research that will imagine new futures:

gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-cru...