The success of the Crucible programme has been acknowledged by a number of articles and awards, including the following:

ReSourcE Feature

Following the RSE Awards evening in September 2015, a write-up of the programme appeared in ReSourcE, the Royal Society of Edinburgh Newsletter. Scottish Crucible has featured in numerous ReSourcE newsletters, including the winter 2012 edition.

Scottish Consortium for Rural Research

Scottish Crucible was featured in the Summer 2015 edition of the SCRR newsletter, exploring the interdisciplinary research collaborations and networks and their benefits to the members of the Consortium.

Inspired by Nature

In the July 2014 edition of Nature (vol 512, Careers section, printed only), a piece on interdisciplinary research included a side bar on support from funders for interdisciplinary research, including Scottish Crucible.

Times Higher Education Award 2010 “Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers”

Scottish Crucible 2012 was organised under the auspices of the Research Training sub-committee of Universities Scotland Research & Knowledge Exchange Committee (US RKEC-RT). In November 2010, members of the sub-committee won the Times Higher Education Award for “Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers” for their “KE Step Change” programme of which Scottish Crucible was one of the three key strands. The judges commended the programme as “highly collaborative” and “innovative in its reach across sectors, disciplines and range of research organisations”


The Scotmans Opinion Piece 2016

The Scottish Crucible Directors decided that it would be most appropriate to invite one of the Scottish Crucible Alumni to compose a piece.  Dr Ken Scott-Brown, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Abertay University, accepted the invitation and wrote an article on how Scottish Crucible is encouraging creativity and innovation amongst academic “research leaders of the future” and enable intractable societal challenges to be addressed by fostering development of interdisciplinary teams.  It appeared as a two-page spread in the Scotsman on Tuesday 23rd August 2016 under the title: “Sharing idea space can make for some creative solutions for busy academics.”. Read the full article here.