Bristol leaps to 68th place in global reputation rankings
The University of Bristol has risen to 68th place in The Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankings 2025.
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Grants and awards
Grant to strengthen ties between universities and museums
A centre established as a partnership between Bristol's two universities has received funding to strengthen links between museums and the higher education sector nationwide.
Bristol academic wins Best Monograph award
Dr Helen Piper, Senior Lecturer in Television Studies, at the University of Bristol, has won the award for Best Monograph at the 2016 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS).
Study aims to understand why COVID-19 vaccines can lead to very rare blood clotting with low platelets
A group of 11 institutions, led by the University of Liverpool and including the University of Bristol, is seeking to understand the very rare, but very serious, condition of blood clotting with low platelets in the general population, in COVID-19 infection, and potentially following vaccination.
Institute receives funding from the A. G. Leventis Foundation
The A. G. Leventis Foundation has awarded a grant of £147,819 to the University of Bristol’s Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition.
South West to host Europe's largest Arm supercomputer
The region's leading universities, the GW4 Alliance, together with the Met Office, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and partners, have been awarded £4.1 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to create Isambard 2, the largest Arm-based supercomputer in Europe.
Rising star Bristol astrophysicist wins astronomical accolade with special historic connection
A prestigious national award created in honour of a pioneering female physicist at the University of Bristol has returned to her alma mater more than 75 years later and been won by talented astrophysicist Dr Hannah Wakeford.
Major funding to develop slow-releasing antimicrobial agent for dentistry and medicine
A University of Bristol spin-out company working to advance the treatment and prevention of bacterial infection by developing a solution to improve the efficacy of chlorhexidine-based products has received major investment to progress the technology.
Bristol announces the first of many new research projects to tackle COVID-19
Diagnostic research to increase the UK's testing capacity, new vaccine targets, understanding more about people who are asymptomatic, and digital support for people with diabetes, are some of the new projects announced by the University of Bristol today [8 April] that will undertake vital COVID-19 research to tackle the global health crisis.
Prestigious IEEE award recognises pioneering work on Software Defined Networking
Three members of Bristol’s High Performance Networks Group have won the 2016 Charles Kao Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society.