Scottish Crucible participants

Scottish Crucible is a leadership and development programme for early career researchers in Scotland which was launched in Spring 2009 and based on the UK-wide, 'Crucible' training scheme which was developed by NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). Each year Scottish Crucible enables 30 highly promising researchers from across Scotland to come together to explore and expand their innovative potential through a series of intensive, two-day workshops (called 'LABs'). The 30 participants are competitively selected from a well-qualified field of applicants all of whom are employed as Early Career Researchers i.e. either Senior Postdoctoral Fellows, Academic Research Fellows or Lecturers in Scottish universities, or their equivalents in independent research institutes, SMEs and spin-out companies.

The Labs are organised and hosted by a team from the partner institutions for Scottish Crucible each year, as follows:

• Scottish Crucible 2012: Queen Margaret University; Glasgow Caledonian University; University of Dundee
• Scottish Crucible 2011: Edinburgh Napier University; University of the Highlands and Islands; Strathclyde University
• Scottish Crucible 2010: Heriot-Watt University; University of Stirling; University of Glasgow
• Scottish Crucible 2009: University of Edinburgh; University of St Andrews; University of Aberdeen