A revolutionary and world-first composites manufacturing process that places carbon fibres tapes along curved paths without causing defects has won this year’s University of Bristol’s New Enterprise Competition (NEC) and £10,000 funding.
Dr Kyla Thomas, a Consultant Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine, has been appointed as the Clinical Director of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) West of England Clinical Research Network (CRN).
The South West Nuclear Hub recently celebrated the second anniversary of its doors opening, and colleagues gathered in the David Smith Building to reflect on the success in addressing nuclear skills, research and innovation challenges so far.
A team of scientists and engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Birmingham have returned from Guatemala where they have been teaching local scientists how to use drones to map the Fuego volcano which violently erupted earlier this year.
Public Health England (PHE) is working closely with the University of Bristol following two confirmed cases of Meningitis B in two students at the University.
As the nation marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War, Bristol's largest bell, housed in the tower of the University of Bristol's Wills Memorial Building, will ring out in celebration for peace across the city this Sunday [11 November].
Moths are a mainstay food source for bats, which use echolocation (biological sonar) to hunt their prey. Scientists from the University of Bristol are studying how moths have evolved passive defences over millions of years to resist their primary predators.
A mini hot air balloon, measuring just 1.8m tall, will bring a flavour of Bristol to the historic Lord Mayor's Show in London this weekend.
A thought-provoking film, released to coincide with the centenary of the Armistice in November 1918, in which war is imagined as a diabolical dance choreographed by Satan and Ballet Master Death is currently touring the UK, including several performances in and around Bristol.
Social care research in England is set to receive up to £20 million in new funding through the National Institute for Health Research, boosting research to improve adult social care across the country.
Women who are 'larks', functioning better at the beginning of the day than the end of the day, have a lower of risk breast cancer, according to new research led by the University of Bristol presented at the 2018 NCRI Cancer Conference today [Tuesday 6 November].
A chemical that highlights tumour cells has been used by surgeons to help spot and safely remove brain cancer in a trial presented by a University of Bristol academic at the 2018 NCRI Cancer Conference.
Vitamica, a University of Bristol spin-out company, has closed its initial seed funding round. This is a major milestone for the company which is developing a rapid diagnostic to determine the susceptibility of bacteria to antibiotics.
Dr Juliet Biggs, Dr Claire Haworth and Dr John Russo have each been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for their research.
The University of Bristol has committed to paying its staff the real Living Wage, which today rises to £9 an hour to keep pace with the cost of living.
New research has uncovered the distinctive challenges faced by some Pakistani men migrating to join their wives in the UK.
The multidisciplinary project UNIQORN, which begins this month, will develop quantum technology for the mass market. Quantum communication systems, mostly found in research laboratories, will be squeezed into small and reliable photonic integrated circuits. By carefully laying out each element along the development chain from fabrication to application, the Horizon 2020 project will not only reduce size and cost, but will also bring improvements in terms of robustness and reproducibility.
Bristol’s research community greets new postgraduate research students at recent inauguration event, hosted by the Bristol Doctoral College.
Three of the University’s schools have successfully gained Athena SWAN Awards – including the first non-STEMM subject award at Bristol.
The University of Bristol partners with the Max Planck Society in Germany to establish an innovative new Max Planck Centre for Minimal Biology in Bristol. The Centre will pursue game-changing research in the emerging field of minimal biology to address some of the most complex challenges in fundamental science. This could lead to transformative applications in biotechnology and medicine.
Thirty academics from engineering, health sciences, mathematics, veterinary science, geographical sciences, computer science, arts and other disciplines join the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.
Societal acceptance of domestic violence against women is widespread in developing countries, with 36 per cent of people believing it is justified in certain situations.
