Charity led by 23-year-old lifts 13,000 women out of period poverty
A non-profit that has lifted 13,000 refugees and vulnerable people out of period poverty has now been awarded charity status.
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Startup moving cells with soundwaves wins top prize at New Enterprise Competition
A startup that uses soundwaves to move cells has won £10,000 and a year’s membership at tech incubator SETsquared Bristol.
Bristol unites international gambling harms experts and people suffering from gambling addiction to highlight urgent need for reform
With the explosion of online platforms and advertising, the scourge of gambling is a growing problem affecting people of all ages.
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Graduate founders triumph in Royal Academy of Engineering competition
Young entrepreneurs who invented a portable menstrual cup cleaner while at the University of Bristol have won a Royal Academy of Engineering competition.
Professor Mike Jones, 1953-2023
Emeritus Professor Mike Jones died in September. His colleagues Professor Mark Clatworthy and Professor Stuart Cooper offer this remembrance to a pathfinder in many areas of accounting research who served as Professor of Accounting from 2009 to 2020 and as Head of Department of Accounting and Finance from 2009 to 2013.
Pioneering study shows schools are providing ‘fourth emergency service’ feeding families in desperate need
New research has exposed how food charity in schools is becoming mainstreamed across England amidst the cost-of-living crisis, welfare cutbacks, and entrenched poverty.
Bristol researchers set to join leading experts at COP28 as world ‘stands on edge of burning bridge’ to tackle climate change
A team of University of Bristol experts are poised to join the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which will hold the world to account in addressing humanity’s most urgent and ambitious challenge.
University of Bristol historian elected as Fellow of the British Academy
A University of Bristol historian who is an expert in colonialism, and in particular the British empire and its relations with China, has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy
University of Bristol celebrated for contributing to the UK’s creative excellence
Hollywood actor Simon Pegg and children's author Julia Donaldson are among the University of Bristol's famous alumni recognised as the country’s greatest creative minds in a new campaign to showcase the creative talent nurtured at UK universities and encourage the government to support creative courses.
‘I was eating 1,000 calories a day, now I’m making healthy groceries accessible to everyone’
Two years ago Sonny Drinkwater was exercising 20 times a week and counting every single one of the 1,000 daily calories he consumed.