Research
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Eradicating child poverty in Africa
30 March 2017
A team from Bristol Poverty Institute, a new specialist research institute at the University of Bristol set up to tackle global poverty, have been working with UNICEF to provide technical advice and assistance to the Ugandan Bureau of Statistics (UBoS) and the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) to help integrate multidimensional child poverty measures into Ugandan National Statistics.
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Smoking during pregnancy associated with child’s risk of having congenital heart disease
27 May 2021
Children born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy were at increased risk of having congenital heart disease, a new study published today [27 May] in the Journal of the American Heart Association has found.
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Aerosol generating procedures: are they of relevance for transmission of SARS-CoV-2?
7 May 2021
Emerging evidence indicates that many currently defined aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) are unlikely to play any significant role in the generation of infectious aerosol that poses a risk to hospital staff. In a comment article published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine today [6 May] a research team from the University of Bristol discusses AGPs and the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a healthcare setting.
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Seeing the light
18 November 2003
How can we tell how things would have looked to people in the past? This simple question led Kate Devlin, Veronica Sundstedt and Alan Chalmers from the University's Computer Science Department to become involved in realistic graphics and archaeology.
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Rooted tree key to understanding bacterial evolution, new study suggests
6 May 2021
An international team of researchers led by Dr Tom Williams from the University of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences have found a new way to interpret the evolution of bacteria.
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New £6.3M deep tech incubator set to open in Bristol
27 May 2021
A new 30,000 sq. ft Science Creates deep tech incubator is set to open in the heart of Bristol thanks to a £6.3 million investment from the University of Bristol, Research England, and private investors. Construction works on the new facility, that will house some of the city’s most innovative science and engineering companies, have reached the final phase.
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New study sheds light on the deep evolutionary origins of the human smile
6 May 2021
The origins of a pretty smile have long been sought in the fearsome jaws of living sharks which have been considered living fossils reflecting the ancestral condition for vertebrate tooth development and inference of its evolution. However, this view ignores real fossils which more accurately reflect the nature of ancient ancestors.
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Stormy times ahead?
18 November 2003
Dr Jonathan Bamber, senior lecturer in the School for Geographical Sciences, is the lead investigator on a multi-institute project aimed at investigating how changes to the ice cover in the Arctic may affect the future climate of north-west Europe.
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Composites advance ³Ô¹ÏÍø
29 March 2017
Composites are the materials of the future and are critical to reducing weight, energy consumption and the generation of CO2 in transport applications. Research ³Ô¹ÏÍø Composites Institute (ACCIS) at the University of Bristol, a newly created Specialist Research Institute (SRI), is delivering new technology and innovation through its research programmes, which will benefit future fuel emissions.
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Wanted: Bristol residents to be part of a world first technology trial
4 July 2017
The UK, like many other nations, is faced with an explosion of long-term health conditions that require continuous management, often for many years, outside of a hospital setting. SPHERE (Sensor Platform for HEalthcare in a Residential Environment) has developed a 21st century home health sensor system that can build a picture of how people live in their home. A vital part of SPHERE's research is to test the system in real homes and people across Bristol are being asked to take part in this research.
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