Bristol botanist wins Linnean Society prize
Dr Christopher Thorogood of the School of Biological Sciences has been awarded the 2010 Irene Manton Prize by The Linnean Society of London for his thesis on parasitic plants.
Grants and awards
Bristol academic elected British Academy Fellow
Emeritus Professor Richard Little, in the University's Department of Politics, has achieved the rare distinction of being elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
£357,430 for research into Middle English verse forms
Professor Ad Putter of Bristol University’s Department of English has been awarded £357,430 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a project that will investigate the verse forms of Middle English romances. As part of the project, recorded readings will be made of these romances in their original text and metre which will enable modern readers to familiarize themselves with forgotten conventions of rhyme and rhythm.
AHRC grant gives voice to medieval chant
Dr Emma Hornby in the Department of Music has been awarded a Religion and Society Small Research Grant worth £95,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a one-year project on ‘Compositional planning, musical grammar and theology in Old Hispanic chant’.
New European collaboration to enhance neuroscience research
The University of Bristol is part of a consortium of leading neuroscience institutes and industrial partners to win EU funding of more than five million euros for a pan-European PhD training network.
Alzheimer’s to benefit from landmark MRC-AstraZeneca compound collaboration
A study to investigate Alzheimer’s disease led by scientists at the University of Bristol has been awarded funding by the Medical Research Council (MRC).
How do we use visual sense to guide behaviour?
A team of researchers at Bristol University’s Bristol Vision Institute (BVI) has been awarded a £390,000 grant from the Wellcome Trust to establish a joint research facility.
New study to investigate headshaking in horses
Following a study that has found a pioneering new surgical procedure could be a viable option for headshaking in horses. An academic from the University of Bristol’s School of Veterinary Sciences has received a grant to investigate possible focal demyelination of the nerve as a cause of headshaking in horses.
Institute of Physics medal for Professor O'Brien
Jeremy O'Brien, Professorial Research Fellow in Physics and Electrical Engineering, has won the Institute of Physics Moseley Medal, awarded for distinguished research in experimental physics.
International essay prize distinctions for Theology students
Two students from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Fe Torrance and Emily Rhodes, have been honoured by the judges of a prestigious international essay prize competition.