A new project, which aims to improve social interactions, will develop and test an innovative rehabilitation method using humanoid robotics and virtual reality thanks to funding of €2.9 million by the European Commission.
A research programme that aims to develop new ways of engaging communities in decision making with businesses and policy makers will begin thanks to funding of £2.4 million from the Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC].
The University’s Capital Projects Office has won the Client of the Year Award in the Constructing Excellence South West and the Chartered Institute of Building South West Built Environment Awards 2012.
Bristol University psychologist Dr Pete Etchells has won the science world’s equivalent of X Factor by answering over 450 questions from school children across the country to win their vote.
The Leverhulme Trust has awarded the University three prestigious Research Project Grants.
The Stunning and Slaughter Group at the University of Bristol’s School of Veterinary Sciences is the winner of the 2012 ‘HSA John Ace-Hopkins Award for Significant Advances in Humane Slaughter’.
A leading epidemiologist from the University of Bristol has been elected as a fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
University of Bristol Vet School lecturer, Sue Badger, has been awarded the Veterinary Nursing Golden Jubilee Award for 2012 for her significant contribution to the veterinary nursing profession during her long-standing career.
Three long-serving members of staff at the University of Bristol are among just several hundred people in the country to be awarded British Empire Medals from the Queen – an accolade which has been revived to mark the Diamond Jubilee.
Tom Flynn, the editor of the University of Bristol's student newspaper Epigram, has been awarded Best Student Journalist of the Year in the National Union of Students (NUS) Awards 2012.
