Grants and awards
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Bristol’s Dr Gorochowski awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowship
28 June 2017
Dr Thomas Gorochowski, from the University of Bristol’s Bristol BioDesign Institute, has been awarded a prestigious five-year University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society.
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University of Bristol team develop a new test to assist GP antibiotic prescribing
1 August 2017
A research team at the University of Bristol has won a prestigious international award for a technology that could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance.
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Kevin Elyot Award – second recipient chosen
14 July 2017
Bristol-based playwright and writer Jon Berry has been named as the second recipient of the annual Kevin Elyot Award by the University of Bristol's Theatre Collection.
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International recognition for outstanding early career researcher
1 August 2017
Dr Duleeka Knipe, from the Bristol Medical School at the University of Bristol, has received the prestigious Andrej Marusic Award in recognition of her outstanding research into suicide prevention.
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New multi-million-pound research consortium aims to reduce harms caused by violence
29 July 2021
A new multi-million-pound research project that will provide world-leading data on violence coincides with the launch of a new consortium which aims to reduce harms caused by violence.
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University of Bristol shortlisted for Global Teaching Excellence Award
14 July 2017
An international panel of judges has shortlisted the University of Bristol for the Higher Education Academy’s (HEA) first Global Teaching Excellence Awards (GTEA).
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Dr Albone honoured by Japanese government for science education work
27 June 2017
Dr Eric Albone MBE, Co-Founder and Director of the Clifton Scientific Trust, has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays by the government of Japan.
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Alzheimer's Society £2 million grant to draw expertise from local charity RICE
26 June 2017
Alzheimer's Society has announced that it has committed almost £2 million as part of its biggest-ever single investment in dementia care research and Professor Julian Hughes, RICE Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Bristol was a co-applicant on the grant.
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Bristol gets served a slice of Lawn Tennis Association’s largest investment to date
13 July 2017
The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has made a £125 million investment, its largest to date, into raising the game for British tennis.
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Bristol academics elected as Fellows to The British Academy
23 July 2021
Three University of Bristol academics have been elected to The British Academy as Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to social sciences, humanities and the arts.
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