Grants and awards
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Jenny Donovan elected AMS Fellow
6 May 2009
Professor Jenny Donovan, Head of the Department of Social Medicine, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Bristol's schools commended for gender equality
7 August 2012
The School of Chemistry has received a national award in recognition of its commitment to good employment practices in recruiting, retaining and promoting women.
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Andrew Orr-Ewing receives Tilden Prize
17 April 2009
Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing of the School of Chemistry has been named by the Royal Society of Chemistry as a Tilden Prize and Lecture winner for 2010/11 for his work in chemical reaction dynamics.
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Biochemistry bags half of Biochemical Society awards
11 March 2009
Staff in the University’s Department of Biochemistry have won three of only six awards to be presented by the Biochemical Society in 2010 – an outstanding achievement for one department.
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Paul Statham awarded WZB Research Professorship
1 May 2009
Professor Paul Statham of the Department of Sociology and Director of the International Network for European Political Communications has been awarded a Research Professorship by the WZB Social Science Research Center in Berlin.
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Study of inventors wins Edelstein Prize
22 October 2008
A book by Professor Christine MacLeod in the Department of Historical Studies has been awarded the Society for the History of Technology’s Edelstein Prize for 2008.
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Teesside Honorary Degree for VC
25 November 2008
The University of Teesside has awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science to Professor Eric Thomas, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol.
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Bristol wins ESRC Future Research Leaders awards
12 July 2012
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded the University of Bristol six Future Research Leaders grants.
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Prestigious ERC grant for brain protein study
22 October 2008
Jeremy Henley, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience in the Department of Anatomy, has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant of over €2.1M for a study of SUMO, a protein that influences how brain cells communicate.
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International award for research on parents with learning difficulties
17 September 2008
Beth Tarleton, a research fellow at the Norah Fry Research Centre, has received an Early Career Research Award from the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) for her work with parents with learning disabilities.
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