Meeting of Minds at Top Research Event as Experts Pool Knowledge to Help Wider World; Welsh Crucible Is a Programme of Personal, Professional and Leadership Development Which Brings Together 30 of Wales' Most Promising Researchers to Encourage the Development of Novel and Sustainable Multi-Disciplinary Ideas and Collaborations. Here, Prof Peter Halligan and Dr Sara Williams Outline the Programme's Objectives

WHAT do you get if you put a physicist in a room with a psychologist, an engineer with a lawyer, or a microbiologist with a statistician? This summer, for the second year, Welsh Crucible took thirty of Wales's up-and-coming research stars and asked them to start thinking of ways they could work together to use their research to improve our health, our economy and the environment we live in.

Welsh Crucible provides participants with the opportunity to get to know about the work and academic disciplines of others.

The success of last year's Welsh Crucible made it clear that this is an effective way of getting researchers to work together on projects that will …

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Publication information: Article title: Meeting of Minds at Top Research Event as Experts Pool Knowledge to Help Wider World; Welsh Crucible Is a Programme of Personal, Professional and Leadership Development Which Brings Together 30 of Wales' Most Promising Researchers to Encourage the Development of Novel and Sustainable Multi-Disciplinary Ideas and Collaborations. Here, Prof Peter Halligan and Dr Sara Williams Outline the Programme's Objectives. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales). Publication date: August 13, 2012. Page number: 24. © 2009 MGN Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2012 Gale Group.

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