Grants and awards
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New study aims to find the best moisturiser for treating eczema in children
22 September 2017
Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Southampton have been awarded £1.4 million by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment Programme to discover which is the best emollient (moisturiser) for treating childhood eczema.
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Professor John Pickard wins top music award
22 September 2021
A recording of seven compositions by John Pickard, Professor of Composition in Bristol’s Department of Music, has won the Contemporary category of this year’s Gramophone Awards.
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£1.8m for major study into management of bleeding after childbirth
20 June 2017
The UK National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) has awarded a collaboration led by Liverpool, Bristol and Sunderland £1.8m to run a large study into the drug treatment of bleeding after childbirth (also called postpartum haemorrhage or PPH).
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GW4 shortlisted for Times Higher Education award
8 September 2017
The GW4 Alliance [made up of four leading research-intensive universities: Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter] has been shortlisted under the category of Technological Innovation of the Year at this year’s Times Higher Education [THE] Awards for its world-first supercomputer, Isambard.
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Winners of the prizes for the Best Doctoral Research Theses 2016/17
18 October 2017
Six University of Bristol postgraduates have been awarded £500 prizes for the exceptional quality of their research degree theses.
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Think Big: University welcomes future leaders to inaugural International Scholars Reception
18 October 2017
Over 100 scholars, representing 36 countries, attended the University of Bristol’s inaugural International Scholars Reception at the Wills Memorial Building this month.
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UK invests in giant underground neutrino detector
21 September 2017
The UK government has announced a £65 million strategic investment in the next generation of particle physics experiments.
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Antibiotic Discovery in the Abyss
14 November 2017
Combining the innovations of synthetic biology with robotic environmental sampling, a team of University of Bristol researchers are travelling to some of the most ‘extreme’ environments on Earth, including Atlantic depths of 4.5km, to find new leads which could help in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance.
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Edinburgh show highlights stress among GPs
14 August 2017
PreScribed (a life written for me) opens in Edinburgh this week and explores the alarming statistic that one in five practising GPs suffer from chronic stress and anxiety.
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£3.6M funding for research into the link between physical and mental health problems
16 July 2021
A research team led by the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (MRC CNGG) at Cardiff University and involving researchers from the University of Bristol has received significant funding for an international collaborative project to study the link between physical and mental health problems.
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