International
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2024 Alumni Award winners announced!
30 January 2024
A Sign Language interpreter, a conservationist and an esteemed Shakespearean are among the University of Bristol's 2024 Alumni Award winners.
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Bristol to debut world's first 5G end-to-end network at Mobile World Congress
26 February 2018
The University of Bristol, University of Surrey and King's College London will this week [26 February – 1 March] debut the world's first end-to-end 5G network at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Children of abused mothers 50 per cent more likely to have low IQ
26 November 2019
Children of women who reported domestic violence in pregnancy or during the first six years of the child's life are almost 50 per cent more likely to have a low IQ at age eight, research has found.
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Supporting childbearing women to maintain a healthy weight could reduce the risk of pregnancy complications, study finds
29 January 2024
Supporting women of childbearing age to have a healthy weight could reduce the risk of several pregnancy complications, new research led by the University of Bristol has found. The international collaborative study is published in BMC Medicine today [29 January].
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InterDigital Europe joins Bristol Is Open’s programmable city project
7 December 2015
InterDigital, Inc., a mobile technology research and development company, has announced that InterDigital Europe has joined the Bristol Is Open programmable city project. Bristol Is Open is a joint venture between the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council.
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Spin-out secures £1.1 million for ground-breaking 'supercharged' cell therapies to treat solid tumours
25 November 2019
A University of Bristol spin-out company has raised £1.1 million in funding to develop next generation cell therapies that could open new ways to treat solid tumours and improve the lives of 18 million people worldwide who are diagnosed with cancer each year.
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Evidence that tobacco smoking increases risk of depression and schizophrenia
6 November 2019
A new study published today [Wednesday 6 November] in Psychological Medicine and led by University of Bristol researchers has found that tobacco smoking may increase your risk of developing depression and schizophrenia.
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Million-pound grant for Bristol physicists to investigate matter and anti-matter
21 November 2019
The University of Bristol will receive up to £1.1M to research matter and anti-matter as part of a global science experiment that will inform the debate about why the universe survived the Big Bang.
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Live animal transport regulations not ‘fit for purpose’, major international study finds
24 January 2024
A ‘fitness check’ of regulations in five countries meant to protect animals during transportation, has deemed that they all fall short of fully protecting animals during transport. Findings from this interdisciplinary work involving the Universities of Bristol, Essex and British Columbia (Canada) which compared animal transport rules designed to protect the billions of livestock that are transported on lengthy journeys in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, EU (including UK) and US, highlights serious failures.
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Bristol wins global Smart City Award
9 March 2018
Bristol beat off stiff competition from Barcelona, Dubai, New York, Singapore and Yinchuan to win the Smart City Award (Judges' Choice) at the GSMA's 2018 Global Mobile Awards (The GLOMOs). The award provides global recognition on how Bristol has raised the bar on defining the 'smart city' of the future.
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