Benjamin Meaker Annual Awards 2025-26

Exploiting Quantum Phenomena in Earth Abundant Photocatalysts

  • UoB Lead: Dr Tom Oliver in the School of Chemisty

  • International Collaborator: Professor Stephen Bradforth (University of Southern California, USA)

Where do we go from here? Conceptualising Peace Research

  • UoB Lead: Professor Roddy Brett in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies

  • International Collaborators: Professor Norbert Koppensteiner and Professor Josefina Echavarría Alvarez (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Meaningful Work and Exploitation from a Kantian Perspective

  • UoB Lead: Dr Martin Sticker in the Department of Philosophy

  • International Collaborator: Professor Corinna Mieth (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

Climate change and Alzheimer's disease: the role of the hypothalamus

  • UoB Lead: Professor David Murphy in the Bristol Medical School

  • International Collaborator: Dr Andrew Mecawi (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Gambling Harms and Urban Growth

  • UoB Lead: Professor Agnes Nairn in the Bristol Business School

  • International Collaborator: Dr Kah-Wee Lee (National University of Singapore)

Fractional calculus and its application to movement ecology in a changing world

  • UoB Lead: Professor Luca Giuggioli in The School of Engineering Mathematics

  • International Collaborator: Professor Mujeeb ur Rehman (National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan)

Enhanced Alzheimer's protection: A multidisciplinary approach elucidating optimum melatonin levels required to reduce lipid membrane damage by amyloids at a physico-chemical level utilising Bristol's world-leading holistic microscopy

  • UoB Lead: Dr Robert Harniman in The School of Chemistry

  • International Collaborator: Professor Zoya Leonenko (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Using Gold-Rush Migration History to Connect Cultural Heritage Industries in the UK and Australia

  • UoB Lead: Professor Simon Potter in the Department of History

  • International Collaborator: Dr Benjamin Mountford (Australian Catholic University)