International
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Bristol behind world鈥檚 first massive egocentric dataset
14 October 2021
The University of Bristol is part of an international consortium of 13 universities, in partnership with Facebook AI, that have collaborated to advance egocentric perception.
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The advent of 鈥済reen鈥� cattle
30 October 2017
Implications of livestock farming on climate change should not be drawn from aggregate statistics, reveals a study based on a new method of carbon footprinting for pasture-based cattle production systems that can assess the impacts of individual animals.
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GP online consultations: not the panacea policy makers are hoping for
23 November 2017
Online GP consultation systems may not be the silver bullet for reducing GP workload and patient waiting times that government policymakers are hoping for, NIHR-funded research from the University of Bristol has found. These systems offer the potential to revolutionise use of primary care, but only with careful implementation and effective marketing, the researchers concluded.
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Ballast Seed Garden artist wins Vera List Centre Prize for Art & Politics
12 December 2016
A Bristol art project about migration has won the 2016-2018 Vera List Centre Prize for Art and Politics. Presented every two years to an artist, or group of artists, whose work furthers social justice, this year the winner is Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves, who created Bristol鈥檚 Floating Ballast Seed Garden, in collaboration with the University of Bristol Botanic Garden, Bristol City Council and Arnolfini.
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Non-invasive breathing support for COVID-19 patients isn鈥檛 linked to heightened infection risk
4 November 2021
The use of non-invasive breathing support, commonly known as CPAP or HFNO, to treat moderate to severe COVID-19 infection, isn鈥檛 linked to a heightened infection risk, as currently thought, suggest two new studies which included work led by University of Bristol researchers. The findings and a linked editorial are published today [4 November] in Thorax .
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Bristol researchers to explore Mars and its environment
26 October 2017
Three academics from the University of Bristol will explore Mars and the microgravity environment, thanks to funding from the UK Space Agency in the latest round of the Aurora Science Programme and the Human Spaceflight and Microgravity programme.
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Atopic eczema: one size does not fit all
21 November 2017
Researchers from the UK and Netherlands have identified five distinct subgroups of eczema, a finding that helps explain how the condition can affect people at different stages of their lives.
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Lung capacity tests found to be accurate precursor of co-morbidities
2 November 2021
One of the largest studies to investigate whether Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry (PRISm), an understudied low lung function state, is an early predictor of co-morbidities has found it is strongly associated with an increased risk of death. The analysis, led by University of Bristol researchers and published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, evaluated results of lung spirometry tests in over 350,000 UK adults and followed them up over 12 years.
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Combined treatments are the most effective to stop smoking, study finds
12 October 2021
Combination therapies, particularly varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) combined, are the most effective tobacco cessation pharmacotherapies, the largest review to examine the effectiveness and safety of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and medicines that people use to quit tobacco has found.
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鈥楤est practice鈥� domestic violence programme announces ambitious plans to expand
21 November 2017
A highly successful, evidence-based domestic violence and abuse identification and referral programme (IRIS 鈥� Identification and Referral to Improve Safety) developed by researchers at the University of Bristol has launched as a social enterprise today, with plans to scale up its activity and grow the programme across the UK and internationally.
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