Dr Nandy wins CROP Prize for poverty research
Dr Shailen Nandy in the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice is the joint winner of the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014.
Grants and awards
‘Game changer’ technology scoops top prize in the New Enterprise Competition
New quantum technology to ensure data is secure has won the University of Bristol's equivalent to Dragon's Den and a share of over £35,000 prize money.
Professor Sir Michael Berry awarded Lorentz medal
Sir Michael Berry, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol, has been awarded the 2014 Lorentz medal by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bristol academics named among ‘world’s most influential scientific minds’ 2015
University of Bristol academics have been named by Thomson Reuters as among the 2015 top one per cent of scientists who are “the world’s most influential scientific minds” and whose publications have been deemed as having exceptional impact.
Former Bristol Economics professor wins Nobel Prize
Professor Angus Deaton of Princeton University has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Online guide launched to support people affected by vulval lichen sclerosus wins national award
An online guide to support people affected by vulval lichen sclerosus (LS) has won a national award. Since its launch earlier this year, the guide has been viewed by over 23,000 people in more than 50 countries.
New awards celebrate achievements of Professional Services staff
The University’s first Professional Services Excellence Awards were announced at a ceremony in the Anson Rooms last week.
Institute of Physics’ most prestigious accolade awarded to Sir Michael Berry
Pioneering University of Bristol theoretical physicist Sir Michael Berry has been awarded the Isaac Newton Medal and Lecture 2025, recognising his profound contributions across mathematics and physics.
Nature-inspired engineering project wins Leverhulme grant
A project to develop ‘biomimetic’ devices that re-orientate in response to light has been granted funding by the Leverhulme Trust.
UK’s leading surgeons mark official launch of £21m NIHR Biomedical Research Centre
Almost a third of hospital admissions involve a surgical procedure and with 4.7 million operations carried out in the UK each year and numbers rising year on year, surgery is one of the most important life-saving treatments offered to patients. Innovative surgical procedures are continually being developed but how are they tested to ensure they are safe? Two of the UK’s leading academic surgeons will answer these questions at a public lecture and debate on Thursday 1 February 2018 to mark the official launch of the £21 million National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).