Grants and awards
- 1 September 2022 Two University of Bristol academics have been conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.
- 14 December 2018 A Bristol Medical School researcher has been awarded a prestigious Diabetes UK fellowship to understand more about adult onset type 1 diabetes. It is estimated that more than 300,000 people in the UK are living with the disease which develops when the immune system makes a mistake and destroys the cells that make insulin.
- 22 October 2018 Researchers from the University of Bristol are looking for local dads to help with a new study exploring their early parenting experiences.
- 21 October 2022 Three academics from the University of Bristol have been awarded prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prizes.
- 30 September 2022 An industry-changing technique currently being developed at the University is one of 77 projects allocated funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) New Horizons initiative.
- 17 October 2018 A network of greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance measurements in the UK and Ireland has been awarded renewed funding of £2.1 million for continued operation for a further two-and-a-half years.
- 21 December 2011 Sheila Rowbotham, Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, has been appointed a Writer in Residence at the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies.
- 11 December 2018 A final-year University of Bristol dental student has been crowned Bristol’s heat winner after competing in the nationwide Dental Clinical Skills Competition.
- 21 December 2011 Dr Heather Whitney has been awarded the 2012 President's Medal in Plant Sciences by the Society for Experimental Biology.
- 11 December 2018 A University of Bristol start-up business specialising in quantum encryption has received over £2 million in investment funding from several corporations and Government initiatives.
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