Professor Ad Putter of Bristol University鈥檚 Department of English has been awarded 拢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.
Chris Musselle, a postgraduate student in the Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences (BCCS), has won the prestigious Best Student Poster prize at the 2009 European Conference on Complex Systems.
A multidisciplinary project that aims to revolutionise the design of technologies for supporting research has been awarded a grant of 拢1.7m by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the RCUK Digital Economy programme.
Professor Fred Manby of the School of Chemistry is one of the 2011 winners of the Royal Society of Chemistry鈥檚 Corday-Morgan Prize.
Professor David Berridge from the Family Policy and Child Welfare Centre in the School of Policy Studies has been awarded (in association with the University of York) 拢400,000 from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) for research into social pedagogy in children鈥檚 residential care in England.
The 2010-11 University Teaching Awards have been announced. Recipients will be presented with their awards at the University鈥檚 Learning and Teaching Exhibition on 6 April.
Professor Stafford Lightman and Dr Becky Conway-Campbell have been awarded a major Programme Grant from the Wellcome Trust for a five-year study of stress hormones.
Bristol is among three leading universities to have won funding from the Intellectual Property Office to pioneer easy access to its intellectual assets.
Professor Martyn Tranter in the School of Geographical Sciences is to receive the Polar Medal for his numerous field seasons in the Arctic and Antarctic.
A University of Bristol academic has been awarded over 拢2 million by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to look into the neural network basis of learning, memory and decision-making in health and disease.
