Professor Derek Offord from the Department of Russian has been awarded £800,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to conduct the first large-scale history of the French language in Russia.
Students from the University of Bristol have won a ‘vinspire’ award for their volunteering efforts in running a lunch club for the city’s senior residents.
Eyjafjallajökull, the Icelandic volcano that grounded air traffic across Europe last year, is the subject of a new research project at the University of Bristol, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
The 2010-11 University Teaching Awards have been announced. Recipients will be presented with their awards at the University’s Learning and Teaching Exhibition on 6 April.
Bristol is among three leading universities to have won funding from the Intellectual Property Office to pioneer easy access to its intellectual assets.
Dr James Wookey in the School of Earth Sciences is to receive the Royal Astronomical Society’s Fowler Award for his research into the properties of the Earth's deep interior.
Two academics in the School of Chemistry have received awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Finn MacKay, a PhD student at the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, has won the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize for her extensive work on tackling violence against women.
Children of the 90s has been awarded £6m to continue its vital research into the health and well-being of thousands of young people and their parents in and around Bristol.
The University’s American Football team ‘Bristol Barracuda’ has won a national award from the British Universities American Football League, the largest university competition for American football in Europe.
