Professor Marianne Hester to lead NSPCC research
Professor Marianne Hester, Chair in Gender, Violence & International Policy at the School for Policy Studies, has been appointed as NSPCC Professor of Child Sexual Exploitation.
Grants and awards
How to be a high flyer
The University of Bristol Language Centre has been selected by CILT, the National Centre for Languages to take part in a project funded by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) to design and deliver an innovative new language-learning programme. Entitled ‘Gateways into the Professions’, the project connects students with employers and professional bodies while they are still at university.
GE Award for Engineering undergraduate
Philip Pearson, an undergraduate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded a scholarship by the GE Foundation as part of its Scholar-Leaders Programme.
Young Investigator Award for Dr Taheri's obesity work
Dr Shahrad Taheri, Clinical Lecturer at the Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, has received the Young Achiever Award from the Association for the Study of Obesity.
Galaxies, corals, fossils: three Leverhulme grants
The Leverhulme Trust has recently awarded three research grants to Bristol academics.
Earth Sciences academics honoured
Two more members of the Department of Earth Sciences are to receive notable awards, hard on the heels of Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Eglinton FRS.
Guy Medal for Dr Fiona Steele
Dr Fiona Steele, Reader in Social Statistics at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling, is to be awarded the Guy Medal in Bronze from the Royal Statistical Society.
Bristol chemist first to win SCI science education award
Bristol ChemLabS CETL Outreach Director, Dr Dudley Shallcross, is the first ever recipient of the Society of Chemical Industry’s Science Education Award.
University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab welcomes £6m boost for the communications technologies of tomorrow
Future communication systems including 6G, faster internet access and cloud computing have received £6m investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) – part of UK Research and Innovation.
Antarctica, aerosols and optics: new grants in Chemistry
New grants awarded to staff in the School of Chemistry will further their work on Antarctic ecosystems, the behaviour and properties of organic aerosols, and the development of new optical sensors.