Grants and awards
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World's largest ever cleft research study
27 March 2012
The Universities of Bristol and Manchester will lead the world’s largest ever research programme into cleft lip and palate.
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£246,000 for research into colour in the 1920s
11 April 2012
Professor Sarah Street in the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film Television, has secured a three year Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant worth £246,243 for her project ‘Colour in the 1920s: Cinema and its Intermedial Contexts’.
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RCUK Science Bridges awards 2009
3 February 2009
Research Councils UK (RCUK) have announced £12 million of funding for collaborations between British universities and institutions in China, India and the US.
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Bristol philosophers awarded £960,000 by the European Research Council
6 March 2012
Professor Samir Okasha and Professor Ken Binmore in the Department of Philosophy have been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant worth £960,928 for their project Darwinism and the Theory of Rational Choice.
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NUS success as the Students’ Union vies for top awards
13 June 2012
The University of Bristol Students Union [UBU] is celebrating after being shortlisted for five national awards.
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Bristol top of the class for security
26 January 2009
The Universities of Bristol and Bath have both won a prestigious national security award.
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Top Bristol students probe the habits of our earliest ancestors
22 June 2009
Two MSc Palaeobiology students in the Department of Earth Sciences have had notable successes in their work on the habits of some of the earliest mammals to have lived, some two hundred million years ago.
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Best research thesis prizes
22 January 2009
Six University of Bristol postgraduates have been awarded prizes for the exceptional quality of their research degree theses.
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Hospitality Services celebrates Fairtrade award
16 March 2012
The University's Hospitality Services has won silver in the Bristol Fairtrade Business Awards 2012. The Awards are the main event in the region for Fairtrade Fortnight and aim to recognise and celebrate local ethical businesses that promote fair trading.
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$2 million for research into oral disease
19 March 2012
A collaborative research project led by the University of Bristol that could significantly improve our understanding of the role of Candida albicans in gum and jaw disease has been awarded $2 million by the US National Institutes for Health (NIH).
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