Grants and awards
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PhD student wins dissertation prize
16 November 2011
Stefano Longo, who completed his PhD in the Dynamics and Control Research Group ³Ô¹ÏÍø University’s Queens School of Engineering, has won the 2011 Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Control and Automation Doctoral Dissertation prize .
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Bristol vet student wins first ever award for dog health research
13 March 2013
A Vet School student from the University of Bristol has won a prestigious award in recognition of her work to improve the health and wellbeing of dogs.
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Dr Helen Simpson awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize
8 November 2011
Dr Helen Simpson in the School of Economics, Finance and Management has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
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Bristol Robotics Laboratory receives Grand Challenges Explorations funding
8 November 2011
The Bristol Robotics Laboratory, a research partnership between the University of Bristol and UWE Bristol, will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.
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Post-doc article selected for Philosopher’s Annual
21 September 2011
Dr Richard Pettigrew, British Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, is co-author of an article that has been chosen by the Philosopher’s Annual as one of the ten best articles published in philosophy in 2010.
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£600k for new ‘biosocial archive’ and grassroots security networks projects
6 June 2013
Two academics have been awarded Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grants totalling £600k for new projects that aim to transform social sciences research.
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Bristol researchers awarded grants to help sick babies and children
3 November 2011
Three leading research teams at the University of Bristol have been given more than £400,000 in grants to carry out studies which aim to help reduce the suffering of sick babies and children.
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Research grant to study Lewy body disease
20 September 2011
Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Dementia Research Group have been awarded a grant by local charity BRACE to investigate Lewy body disease and its association with other diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
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Leverhulme Prize for Bristol engineer
3 November 2011
Dr Katsuichiro Goda, a Lecturer in Civil Engineering, has been awarded a 2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize.
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Engineering academic elected a Fellow of the IEEE
23 November 2011
Professor Mario di Bernardo in the Department of Engineering Mathematics and a member of the Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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