Jo Jenkinson PhD MBE
jojenkinson.bsky.social
Jo Jenkinson PhD MBE
@jojenkinson.bsky.social
Director of the GW4 Alliance, which brings together the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. This is a personal account, views are my own.
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Happy #RedforResearch Day! Thank you to everyone who makes research happen.❤️

Clinical trials help create new medicines & vaccines. In 2022, trials contributed £7.4 billion to the economy & the NHS. www.abpi.org.uk/publications...

Sign up to #BePartofResearch bepartofresearch.nihr.ac.uk/join
June 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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How should universities be responding to attacks from the Trump administration on their first amendment rights? Like this.
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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BREAKING

The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.

The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
popular.info
February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
An absolute pleasure to be in Manchester today with Prosper, focussing how best to support postdocs and their career development. It’s great to see a genuinely national community of practice committed to collaboration.
#ProsperPE25
February 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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GW4 Isambard 3 #Supercomputer is officially online🎉🧠 !

Part of a collaboration between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter, alongside partners HPE, NVIDIA and Arm, Isambard 3 will push the boundaries of science.

🔗 https://buff.ly/4g7HtMK

December 4, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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‘Grave concern’ over drop in NHS clinical researchers.

The declining number of clinical academics in the National Health Service is “of grave concern”, according to the author of a recent report on the NHS.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
‘Grave concern’ over drop in NHS clinical researchers - Research Professional News
Clinicians “forced to abandon academic careers” to cope with demand, major NHS report author warns
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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Exciting news!

The #GW4GeneratorFund is now open for applications. 💡

Open to new, or existing, GW4 research and innovation communities interested in collaborating on research projects - with funding of up to £20k available 🌎🔬.

Don’t miss out 👇
🔗 gw4.ac.uk/generator-fund
November 19, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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The number of Welsh 18-year-olds applying to university is decreasing. Here are the reasons why. ⮛

From @hepi-news.bsky.social | #AcademicSky · #EduSky |
Why are fewer Welsh 18-year-olds applying to university? - HEPI
Fewer Welsh 18-year-olds are applying to university due to financial pressures, regional inequalities, and limited local higher education access.
www.hepi.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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Vivienne Stern, chief executive of Universities UK said: “Universities currently incur an annual £1bn loss in teaching domestic students and an annual £5bn loss in their delivery of research.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Spending on university students in England ‘back to 2011 low point’, says IFS
Government’s underestimation of inflation has eroded teaching resources, according to thinktank
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2023 at 8:00 AM
Not the best timing to be quoted alongside Michele Donelan but £225m for a national AI supercomputer is still a super exciting development for Bristol Uni and really pleased this stems from a GW4 project - tinyurl.com/4mnb7uap
November 1, 2023 at 8:30 PM