Dr Tom Scott and Dr Oliver Payton, with Bristol spin-out company ImiTec Ltd, took their Advanced Airborne Radiation Monitoring System to Dubai and took on 1017 entrants from 165 countries.
Eight Bristol students have been recognised in the 2015 Undergraduate Awards for the quality of their written coursework.
Richard Evershed, Professor of Biogeochemistry in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Robert Boyle Prize 2016 by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr Helen Lambert, Reader in Medical Anthropology from the University of Bristol’s School of Social and Community Medicine, has been appointed to the new position of Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) Research Champion for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The future of biomedical research in the UK will receive a vital boost thanks to a new collaborative PhD training programme worth £4.6 million. Largely funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), the new award to the GW4 Alliance – comprising the University of Bristol, University of Bath, Cardiff University and the University of Exeter – will fund more than 50 postgraduate research students over the next three years.
A company which has pioneered a unique technology that uses ultrasound to create tactile sensations in mid-air has been awarded a prestigious award from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE).
A University of Bristol academic has been elected a Fellow of the world’s largest and most prestigious professional association for the advancement of technology.
With automated trading systems transforming the face of financial trading, research into how to optimise the vast quantities of data being produced has never been more important. A new partnership between the University of Bristol and Thomson Reuters will ensure the UK remains at the forefront of this industry transformation.
Professor Marianne Hester OBE from the University’s School for Policy Studies has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce (RSA).
The University of Bristol Theatre Collection has received £73,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to catalogue, conserve and ultimately make available to the public, the personal archive of one of the last century's foremost theatrical designers, Oliver Messel (1904-1978).
