Grants and awards
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Special presentation day marks medal tribute from the Queen
30 November 2012
Two long-serving members of staff at the University of Bristol have been presented with a British Empire Medal - a special accolade bestowed on them by the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee.
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Innovation award for iPhone app that helps people manage chronic condition
30 November 2012
An iPhone application developed to help patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME (CFS/ME) has won a top award for its use of innovative technology. ActiveME漏, developed by experts in the field of CFS/ME, was designed to assist patients in keeping track of their activity levels, a key part of rehabilitation and self-managing this chronic condition. The free interactive patient-centred tool won the 鈥業nnovation in Technology鈥� category at the NHS Innovations North Bright Ideas awards ceremony [29 Nov 2012].
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Cabot Institute Director wins Lloyds Science of Risk Prize
30 November 2012
Professor Paul Bates from the University of Bristol has won this year's Lloyd鈥檚 Science of Risk Prize in the category of Natural Hazards for his work on flood modelling. He is also co-author of the winning entry for the prize's other category, Climate Change.
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How does our brain 鈥渓earn鈥� from stressful events?
9 January 2013
A study by academics in the University of Bristol's School of Clinical Sciences that aims to investigate how the brain processes stress and creates memories of psychologically stressful events will begin shortly thanks to funding of 拢758,000 from the BBSRC.
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Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for Bristol professor
8 February 2013
The Royal Society, the UK鈥檚 national academy of science, has named Professor Philip Donoghue of the School of Earth Sciences as one of 25 new Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders.
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Dr Tasker receives Petplan Charitable Trust Research Award
10 April 2013
Dr S茅verine Tasker from the Bristol Veterinary School has become the 2013 recipient of the Petplan Charitable Trust Research Award, which recognises a person, or team, who has made an outstanding contribution in the field of veterinary research.
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Could a common blood pressure drug slow down the progression of Alzheimer鈥檚?
5 March 2013
A groundbreaking trial that hopes to discover if a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure could slow down the progression of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease (AD) will begin shortly thanks to funding of nearly 拢2 million by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and managed by the National Institute for Health Research.
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EPSRC grant for renewable energy project
21 June 2013
A project pursuing new approaches to harvesting thermal energy using nanodiamond has been awarded funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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Bristol鈥檚 School of Chemistry scoops five RSC awards
29 April 2013
Four academics in Bristol鈥檚 School of Chemistry have received individual prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and a project involving academics from the Schools of Chemistry, Biological Sciences and Biochemistry has picked up a fifth award for 'world-leading collaborative research'.
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Bristol neuroscientists receive two major funding awards
19 June 2013
Professors David Murphy, from Bristol Neuroscience, and Julian Paton, from of the School of Physiology and Pharmacology, have been awarded two of six research grants funded under a collaborative scheme by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the S茫o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
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