Bristol student wins 2009 GHS Essay Prize
Bristol students have taken top honours in the 2009 Garden History Society (GHS) Essay Prize.
Grants and awards
ESRC award for Dr Jon Fox
Dr Jon Fox from the Department of Sociology has been awarded a grant of £74,500 from the Economic and Social Research Council for research into the racism faced by Hungarian and Romanian migrant workers in the UK.
Bristol engineers ride high in national awards
Five engineering students have been selected as ‘inspirational role models to the next generation of engineers’ by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Chris Deeming wins PhD research awards
Dr Chris Deeming, a former PhD student in the School for Policy Studies, has won two awards for articles based on his PhD research at the University of Bristol.
Computer Science awarded £1.2 million for biological research
Bioinformatics and biological research in the University of Bristol's department of Computer Science has been strengthened thanks to awards totalling £1.2million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
University of Bristol selected as HP Innovation Research Award recipient
Professor Robert Richardson, University of Bristol, is one of 60 professors to receive an award as part of HP’s Innovation Research Program.
US research grant for Earth Sciences postgraduate
Sarah Keenan, an MSc student in Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences, has been awarded a research grant by the Geological Society of America to fund field work in Montana and Texas.
£320k funding boost for dementia research
Dementia research in Bristol has received a major boost thanks to a grant of £320k. The funding will enable researchers at the University of Bristol to carry out detailed experimental investigations of how electrical signals in brain circuits are disturbed by tauopathy — an important pathological hallmark seen in the brains of sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias.
British Academy grant to study ‘entrepreneurs of globalisation’
Dr Ranji Devadason from the Department of Sociology has been awarded a grant of £211,961 from the British Academy for her work on ‘entrepreneurs of globalisation’, people employed by multinational corporations and international NGOs who relocate for work.
Tehmina Bharucha wins Peter Dunn Bursary
Medical student Tehmina Bharucha has won the 2009 Peter Dunn Perinatal Bursary for best perinatal project.