The Arts and Humanities Research Council will fund a £700,000 project at the University of Bristol that will research a key moment in the historical development of Britain’s system of providing retirement income and in the development of its twenty-first century pensions crisis: the pension reforms pushed through by the Thatcher governments in the 1980s.
Thousands of people living with rare kidney disease will get access to improved diagnostics, treatments and potentially cures, thanks to the creation of a new research centre, involving experts from the University of Bristol.
Bristol Engineering graduate, Joe Smith, has been named New Civil Engineer Graduate of the Year 2013, and another Bristol engineer, Tom Bartley, is a runner-up.
Grants have been awarded to 13 new business ideas entered by students, staff and alumni at Bristol in Round One of the University’s 2014 New Enterprise Competition.
Applications are now open for the Kevin Elyot Award 2024, created in memory of the acclaimed actor and writer.
The University of Bristol and UCL will lead the Population Research UK (PRUK) co-ordination hub, part of an existing strategic investment from the UKRI Infrastructure Fund.
Sheila Rowbotham, Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, has been appointed a Writer in Residence at the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies.
Joe Webber, an engineering design student in the Department of Engineering Mathematics, has won a special award at the TARGETjobs National Student Challenge for the UK’s best and brightest university students.
Dr Orla Kelly, a Design Engineer at East Sussex-based company Photek, has won a prestigious award at this year's Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Awards for her work designing novel ion optics for velocity map imaging (VMI) spectrometers used in physical chemistry and laser physics experiments.
A forthcoming book by Dr Dorothy Rowe, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies, has been awarded a prestigious College Art Association of America Millard Meiss Publication Grant.
