Grants and awards
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£2 million for risk management of natural hazards
4 December 2012
A new £2 million project, led by researchers at the University of Bristol, aims to better assess uncertainty and risk of natural hazards.
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Engineering academic elected a Fellow of the IEEE
4 December 2012
David Bull, Professor of Signal Processing in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the world’s largest and most prestigious professional association for the advancement of technology.
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AHRC funds research into Thatcher’s pension reforms
12 December 2013
The Arts and Humanities Research Council will fund a £700,000 project at the University of Bristol that will research a key moment in the historical development of Britain’s system of providing retirement income and in the development of its twenty-first century pensions crisis: the pension reforms pushed through by the Thatcher governments in the 1980s.
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Professor John McNamara awarded Weldon Memorial Prize
23 December 2013
John McNamara, Professor of Mathematics and Biology, has been awarded the 2014 Weldon Memorial Prize.
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Future hub for nano-engineered materials and devices
22 December 2014
The Universities of Bath, Bristol, Sheffield and Strathclyde and their industrial partners have been given funding to develop the UK into a future hub for the manufacture of advanced semiconductor materials.
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Partnership with Google to grow quantum software industry in the UK
25 September 2018
The University of Bristol is joining forces with UCL and Google to launch a £5.5m Prosperity Partnership, which aims to harness the revolutionary power of quantum computers for applications in modelling and simulation.
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Science and engineering impact accelerates with six more EPSRC awards
20 December 2013
The University’s EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) has made six new awards since October 2013, comprising two Knowledge Transfer Secondments, two Proof of Principle, one Proof of Concept and one Public Engagement award.
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Dr Stoja receives fellowship to research at the Bank of England
18 December 2014
Dr Evarist Stoja in the Department of Accounting and Finance has been awarded a prestigious Houblon-Norman Fellowship at the Bank of England for 2014/15.
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Managing sheep scab in UK flocks: there may be trouble ahead
25 September 2018
Parasites, including sheep mites, remain one of the most important limitations to animal health, welfare and productivity. A University of Bristol research paper about managing scab mites in UK sheep flocks has been presented with an Impact Award by the Vet Record, the official journal of the British Veterinary Association (BVA).
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Accelerating world-class natural science research
19 December 2013
Awards totalling £60,000 have been made in the Schools of Geographical and Earth Sciences to accelerate the impact of research. These grants were funded through the University’s NERC-funded Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).
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