Nicola Dandridge, Professor of Practice in Higher Education Policy at the University of Bristol, has been awarded a Damehood for services to higher education in the King’s New Year Honours in recognition of achievements in her previous role as Chief Executive of the Office for Students (OfS).
Researchers at the University of Bristol, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), have developed 'mesenchymal cell plasters' to revolutionise the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease, so they don't need as many open-heart operations.
Childhood body mass index is unlikely to have a big impact on children's mood or behavioural disorders, according to a study led by the University of Bristol and published today [20 December] in eLife.
A 24-year-old who spent years hiding his struggling mental health behind drink and drugs is now reaching millions of people as a wellbeing influencer.
The earliest dinosaurs included carnivorous, omnivorous and herbivorous species, according to a team of University of Bristol palaeobiologists.
A UK-backed mission involving the University of Bristol, which will observe huge swathes of ocean and surface water in unprecedented detail, has launched into space.
A new tool which is able to identify early in pregnancy a woman’s chance of preterm birth or of developing problems with the placenta that may lead to stillbirth will be tested across 26 NHS Trusts for 36 months. The University of Bristol-led trial, will test the Tommy's App, a Clinical Decision Support Tool and will involve around 39,000 women each year.
Bristol is one of the first universities to receive the University Mental Health Charter Award.
This time last year, 5.6m UK households told researchers they lacked confidence in their financial outlook over the next three months. New research released today finds that figure has now increased to 10m households – a 77% increase, meaning 35% of all households.
The experiences of people from ethnic minority groups with NHS mental healthcare are being seriously undermined by failures to consider the everyday realities of people's lives in services in the UK, reports a new study led by researchers at the University of Bristol and Keele University. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded study is published in PLOS Medicine today [13 December].
The University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab and partners have been granted nearly £12 million from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to develop and industrialise technologies and solutions for future 6G mobile networks.
Bristol has been ranked as one of the most sustainable universities in the UK.
With the current cost of living crisis, new evidence has found a significantly larger proportion of unexplained infant deaths were among children living in the most deprived neighbourhoods. The new report from England’s National Child Mortality Database (NCMD), led by the University of Bristol, shows 42% of unexplained infant deaths occurred in the most deprived neighbourhoods compared to 8% in the least deprived neighbourhoods.
The University of Bristol has installed six new externally mounted defibrillators across its campus which can be used in an emergency to save someone’s life if they experience sudden cardiac arrest.
Adult hospitalisations from Omicron-related SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) were less severe than Delta and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (also known as Comirnaty and BNT162b2*) remains effective in preventing not only hospitalisation, but severe patient outcomes associated with COVID-19, two new research studies have found.
Professor John Richard Thomas Colley died on 17 October aged 92. He was Professor of Public Health Medicine from 1976 until retirement in 1993, when he was appointed Emeritus Professor. His former colleague, Professor Michael Wadsworth (now Emeritus at University College London), offers an appreciation.
A University of Bristol student has penned and published his second book – at the tender age of 18.
The debut album of Dr Holly Dejsupa tells the powerful stories of patients she met along her journey as a young doctor.
The festive countdown is in full swing and numbers are uppermost in mind, as people manage tighter budgets and fill their social calendars with long-awaited gatherings now the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic has passed.
Scientists have created a much faster way to make certain complex molecules, which are widely used by pharmaceuticals for antibiotics and anti-fungal medicines.
A specimen retrieved from a cupboard of the Natural History Museum in London has shown that modern lizards originated in the Late Triassic and not the Middle Jurassic as previously thought.
Professor Nathan Lepora and his team were celebrating last night after their landmark robotic finger-tip which makes human-like ‘nerve’ signals was recognised at the Elektra Awards 2002.
An Indian environmentalist is strapping on his trainers to help clean up 30 UK cities in 30 days.
