£2.6m AHRC award funds 75 studentships
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has awarded the University £2.6m to support postgraduate studentships.
Grants and awards
£730,000 for research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in children
A new area of ground-breaking research to provide a better understanding of the cause, treatment and prevention of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME in children has secured a prestigious fellowship and funding of £730,000.
University of Bristol selected as HP Innovation Research Award recipient
Professor Robert Richardson, University of Bristol, is one of 60 professors to receive an award as part of HP’s Innovation Research Program.
Andrew Orr-Ewing receives Tilden Prize
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.
'Best Place to Work' say academics
Bristol University is the third best research institution outside the US to work at, according to a 'Best Places to Work in Academia' survey conducted by The Scientist magazine.
First-ever Enterprise Scholarship announced
Research and Enterprise Development has made the first award in its new Enterprise Scholarship Scheme to third-year medical student Luc Bugeja.
ESRC award for Dr Jon Fox
Dr Jon Fox from the Department of Sociology has been awarded a grant of £74,500 from the Economic and Social Research Council for research into the racism faced by Hungarian and Romanian migrant workers in the UK.
Recent AHRC research leave grants
Buddhist monks, Aristotle, Victorian poetry and incarceration in medieval England are the focus of four research projects to benefit from the latest round of AHRC Research Leave funding.
UNICEF honours Dr Blair
Dr Peter Blair, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Community-Based Medicine, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by UNICEF UK.
Research Engineer wins Systems Centre award
Yun Yin, a research collaborator at the Systems Centre (a collaboration between the Universities of Bristol and Bath), has been awarded a prize of £250 for producing the most outstanding published paper over the past two years of the Systems Centre’s EngD programme.