A nine-month research project at the University’s School for Policy Studies will look at how best to improve the way in which the housing support needs of vulnerable women in Bristol are met as part of the Supporting People (SP) programme. The programme supports approximately 9,000 people at a local level in Bristol.
Measuring Diversity, a new website launched today by the University’s Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), sheds new light on ethnic segregation in England’s schools.
Remains of one of the oldest members of the English royal family have been unearthed at Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany. The preliminary findings will be announced at a conference at the University of Bristol today.
At the University's Learning and Teaching Exhibition 2009/10 on Thursday 7 January, the Teaching Awards were announced and presented by Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Avril Waterman-Pearson.
Health innovation in the South West will become more effective, thanks to a new government-funded partnership comprising universities, NHS organisations and industry. The alliance will help promote new developments in health including maternity and newborn care.
The remarkable feat of tying light in knots has been achieved by a team of physicists working at the universities of Bristol, Glasgow and Southampton, reports a paper in Nature Physics this week.
Signals from the disastrous Haiti earthquake were picked up at the University of Bristol by geophysical instrumentation normally used to monitor volcanoes.
Swimming lessons for both adults and children (aged five and over) wanting either to learn how to swim, gain confidence or improve their stroke begins from Monday 18 January at the University of Bristol swimming pool in Clifton.
The University of Bristol is part of a consortium of leading neuroscience institutes and industrial partners to win EU funding of more than five million euros for a pan-European PhD training network.
The University has launched two new websites to keep staff up to date with the latest developments in the change agenda and the Support Process Review.
Works by a diverse array of contemporary artists from all over Europe will be brought together in a new exhibition entitled To Be Confirmed at The Bristol Gallery from Saturday 16 January to Thursday 25 February 2010.
New research has found giving up caffeine does not relieve tinnitus and acute caffeine withdrawal might add to the problem.
The widespread view of Neanderthals as cognitively inferior to early modern humans is challenged by new research from the University of Bristol published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) USA.
Dr Elizabeth Stanway of the University of Bristol has been awarded The Winton Capital prize in astronomy for her work on distant star-forming galaxies.
Panto star Joe Swash swapped his Prince Charming costume for a University lab coat when he met a little girl from Bristol who almost died from meningitis a year ago. Ashlee Downes, from Almondsbury, was just three months old when she was struck down by the most deadly form of the disease last year.
The wealthiest half of British households have 91 per cent of total wealth, with the least wealthy half accounting for only 9 per cent of wealth, according to the latest Wealth in Great Britain report, which contains chapters by researchers from the University’s Personal Finance Research Centre (PFRC).
The teeth of a 30,000-year-old child are shedding new light on the evolution of modern humans, thanks to research from the University of Bristol published this week in PNAS.
The Spring 2010 season of touring theatre, screenings and other events at the Wickham Theatre includes performances of two of Caryl Churchill’s early plays, a showcase of students’ films inspired by Lars Von Trier and a public lecture on Ted Hughes and Shakespeare.
A new computerised device that tracks portion size and how fast people eat is more successful in helping obese children and adolescents lose weight than standard treatments, according to research led by Bristol University.
New research from the Children of the 90s project suggests that teenage girls who are too thin may be putting their bones at risk.
A £1.4 million grant awarded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to a collaborative group which includes researchers at Bristol, seeks to identify the faulty genes that underlie bleeding in families with abnormal blood platelet function.
