ESRC grant for study of education quality in China
Professor Sally Thomas and her team at the Graduate School of Education have been awarded ESRC funding for a project entitled ‘Improving teacher development and quality in China’.
Grants and awards
New grant to study characterisation of Alzheimer’s disease
Dr Andrea Tales in the Department of Experimental Psychology has been awarded a grant of £164,000 by local Alzheimer’s research charity BRACE to study the characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia using neuroimaging.
Centre for Urban Studies to research the urban middle classes
Professor Gary Bridge from the Centre for Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies is to lead a £500,000-funded project that will compare urban neighbourhoods in Paris and London.
£230,000 for research into forced labour in the UK
Dr Sam Scott from the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice at the School for Policy Studies has been awarded £230,000 research funding from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to examine the scale, nature and scope of forced labour in the UK.
Research study to investigate a chronic childhood condition
A research team led by Dr Esther Crawley, Consultant Senior Lecturer in Community-Based Medicine, has been awarded £164,000 to look into interventions and treatment options for a chronic childhood condition.
Honorary degree for Professor Hogan
Professor John Hogan of the Department of Engineering Mathematics has been awarded an honorary degree by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), in recognition of his work in nonlinear dynamics and its applications.
Archaeologists celebrate double awards
University of Bristol archaeologists have been honoured by two awards at the prestigious Archaeology 2010 Festival held at the British Museum. Professor Joshua Pollard won for his research on the Bluestonehenge project and MA student Chantel Summerfield for her work on military arborglyphs on Salisbury Plain.
Roadmap to improve the welfare of farm animals in the UK
A new collaborative project led by the University's Department of Clinical Veterinary Science aims to secure the well-being of millions of farm animals for years to come.
Accolades for Bristol spine research
Work by researchers from the Spine Research Group in the Department of Anatomy won both Best Paper and Best Poster prize at last month’s biennial meeting of Britspine, an umbrella organisation for spinal research in the UK.
Achieving policy coherence in challenging environments
A team led by Professor Mark Duffield from the University’s Global Insecurities Centre in the Department of Politics and Dr Sarah Collinson of the Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute, London, has been awarded funding of almost £500,000 for a project on risk management in conflict-affected states.