Grants and awards
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PhD student wins International Relations essay prize
17 July 2012
PhD student Rosa Vasilaki has won the Millennium journal’s Northedge Essay Competition 2012 for students of International Relations.
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Teacher of the Year award goes to Centre for Deaf Studies Teaching Fellow
18 July 2012
Clive Mason, a Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Deaf Studies, has won Teacher of the Year for the South West region in the 2012 Signature Annual Award.
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Bristol researcher is strictly the best
18 September 2012
Dr Isobel Houghton, Research Assistant in Quantum Photonics, at the University of Bristol has won the British Science Association’s Strictly Engineering challenge.
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Bristol spin-out wins for medical imaging work
18 September 2012
Micrima, a Bristol University spin-out company, has won the Royal Photographic Society’s Combined Royal Colleges Medal for 2012.
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UNICEF honours Dr Blair
13 July 2009
Dr Peter Blair, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Community-Based Medicine, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by UNICEF UK.
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Bristol team seeks solution for blocked heart bypass arteries
17 September 2012
Pioneering work into reducing blockages in heart bypass grafts following surgery will continue in Bristol thanks to a grant from national heart charity Heart Research UK. The researchers from the Bristol Heart Institute at the University of Bristol have been given funding of over £130,000 from the charity for their work into preventing the future failure of coronary artery vein grafts which are used in surgery.
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Happier, healthier, more productive hens on omega-3?
13 July 2009
Most of us are aware of the potential health benefits of omega-3 found in fish oil and flax seed. Now researchers are looking at how omega-3 may help laying hens avoid bone damage.
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Honour for human rights expert
16 July 2012
Malcolm Evans, OBE, Professor of International Law at the University of Bristol and one of the UK’s leading human rights experts has today [16 July] been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Bangor University, Wales for his services to law.
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ESRC award for Dr Jon Fox
5 August 2009
Dr Jon Fox from the Department of Sociology has been awarded a grant of £74,500 from the Economic and Social Research Council for research into the racism faced by Hungarian and Romanian migrant workers in the UK.
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Multiple awards for Dr Ruth Glynn’s work on Italian women terrorists
19 August 2009
Dr Ruth Glynn from the Department of Italian has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship of £14,850 and two non-stipendiary fellowships at leading women studies centres in the USA to work on her research project, 'Women, Terror and Trauma in Italian Culture'.
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