Grants and awards
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Who is the greenest of them all?
9 November 2009
Four Bristol undergraduates have made it to the final of the npower Future Leaders Challenge, a nationwide search to find the UK’s keenest, greenest university students.
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Major ESRC grant for research into the economics of education and pay
22 October 2009
Dr Matthew Dickson from the Centre for Market and Public Organisation has been awarded £126,685 from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for research into the economics of education and pay.
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Royal Society grant for work on Down syndrome
22 October 2009
Professor Chris Jarrold from the Department of Experimental Psychology has been awarded a £12,000 grant from the Royal Society for his research into children with Down syndrome.
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Bristol medic heads BMA student committee
6 November 2009
Nicholas Deakin, a third-year Bristol medical student, has been elected co-chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Students Committee.
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PhD student wins Airbus award
12 November 2012
A postgraduate student from the University of Bristol’s Department of Engineering Mathematics has been awarded ‘best presentation’ at the annual Airbus PhD Day.
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Professor Marianne Hester awarded £25,295 by the ³Ô¹ÏÍø Office
21 October 2009
Professor Marianne Hester from the Family Policy and Child Welfare Centre in the School for Policy Studies has been awarded a grant of £25,295 from the ³Ô¹ÏÍø Office to conduct a review of the perpetrators of violence against women.
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Driverless transport wins award
15 March 2010
A revolutionary form of driverless travel – the ULTra (Urban Light Transport) – pioneered ³Ô¹ÏÍø University has been awarded the Viva Award for 2009.
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£320k funding boost for dementia research
24 October 2012
Dementia research in Bristol has received a major boost thanks to a grant of £320k. The funding will enable researchers at the University of Bristol to carry out detailed experimental investigations of how electrical signals in brain circuits are disturbed by tauopathy — an important pathological hallmark seen in the brains of sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias.
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AHRC grant gives voice to medieval chant
15 October 2009
Dr Emma Hornby in the Department of Music has been awarded a Religion and Society Small Research Grant worth £95,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a one-year project on ‘Compositional planning, musical grammar and theology in Old Hispanic chant’.
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£357,430 for research into Middle English verse forms
26 November 2009
Professor Ad Putter of Bristol University’s Department of English has been awarded £357,430 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a project that will investigate the verse forms of Middle English romances. As part of the project, recorded readings will be made of these romances in their original text and metre which will enable modern readers to familiarize themselves with forgotten conventions of rhyme and rhythm.
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