The deadline for applications is Monday 2 February 2026.
For full details, including application guidance and a guidance webinar, please visit: www.gw4.ac.uk/generator-fund

Open to GW4 researchers - @uniofbath.bsky.social, @bristoluni.bsky.social, @cardiffuni.bsky.social, @exeter.ac.uk

Wondering where a Generator Fund Award could lead you? Check out the case studies section of our website for some inspiration from previously-funded communities, including the Reactionary Politics Network led by Prof Aurelien Mondon @uniofbath.bsky.social: gw4.ac.uk/case-studies...

➡️ Open to all disciplines, this scheme supports early-stage ideas and help research teams build and scale towards securing future external grants.

➡️ Interdisciplinary research and innovation is explicitly encouraged, and applications from early career research communities are particularly welcome.

@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 amr@gw4.ac.uk

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