Grants and awards
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Chemistry professor receives prestigious meteorological award
19 February 2013
Professor Dudley Shallcross, from the School of Chemistry, has been awarded the Royal Meteorological Society’s Adrian Gill Award for 2012.
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Bristol’s School of Chemistry scoops five RSC awards
29 April 2013
Four academics in Bristol’s 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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Dr O’Rawe awarded AHRC grant for Italian cinema research
13 May 2013
Dr Catherine O'Rawe in the Department of Italian, with colleagues at Exeter and Oxford Brookes universities, has been awarded a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a study of Italian Cinema audiences in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Pupils in Tanzania receive boost to learning thanks to anonymous donor
1 March 2013
An anonymous donor has awarded the University of Bristol £242,000 for a new project to help improve learning for pupils in disadvantaged rural secondary schools in Tanzania, Africa.
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Bristol set to INSPIRE the next generation of medical researchers
11 February 2013
Bristol’s two medical faculties have been awarded funding under a new initiative co-ordinated by the Academy of Medical Sciences to encourage medical and dental students to consider a research career.
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The high-tech future of healthcare: a digital health assistant in your home
9 May 2013
The UK’s healthcare system faces unprecedented challenges. A pioneering new collaboration, led by the University of Bristol, hopes to address these challenges by developing a 24/7 digital home health assistant thanks to a grant awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of £12 million.
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Bristol researchers gain funding for new hip osteoarthritis gene study
10 June 2013
A team of researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Aberdeen has been awarded £250,000 by medical research charity Arthritis Research UK to study which genes can lead to people developing painful and common osteoarthritis of the hip.
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Professor Rich Pancost awarded Geochemistry Fellowship
20 March 2013
Rich Pancost, Professor of Biogeochemistry in the School of Chemistry and member of the Cabot Institute, has been awarded a Fellowship of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry and becomes a Geochemistry Fellow.
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Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for Bristol professor
8 February 2013
The Royal Society, the UK’s 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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Professor Johnston wins Political Studies Association Award
1 December 2011
Professor Ron Johnston in the School of Geographical Sciences has received the Political Studies Association’s Politics/Political Studies Communicator of the Year Award.
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