Bristol PhD students and academics from Professor Marcus Munafò’s and Dr Emma Robinson’s research groups were awarded six of 17 prizes for demonstrating excellence in clinical and non-clinical psychopharmacology and science communication at this year’s British Association for Psychopharmacology [BAP] summer meeting.
The winning team of a nationwide mathematical challenge, Wycombe Abbey School, will be at the University of Bristol today [Wednesday 16 October] to collect their prize.
Dr Chris Erven in the School of Physics is the winner of a competition devised by the University’s Academic Staff Development division to encourage research staff to hone their communication and presentation skills.
Two academics have been awarded Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grants totalling £600k for new projects that aim to transform social sciences research.
Dr Laura Dickinson, Senior Associate Teacher in the Queen's School of Engineering, has been awarded the University of Bristol Students’ Union (UBU) Outstanding Teacher Award.
Awards totalling over £1.2 million, funded through the University’s EPSRC-funded Impact Acceleration Account, have been made across four of the University's Schools to accelerate the impact of research.
A research project from the University of Bristol has won a national Engage Competition run by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE).
A University of Bristol student has won a prestigious award for her research into tobacco packaging.
Dr Séverine Tasker from the Bristol Veterinary School has become the 2013 recipient of the Petplan Charitable Trust Research Award, which recognises a person, or team, who has made an outstanding contribution in the field of veterinary research.
A project pursuing new approaches to harvesting thermal energy using nanodiamond has been awarded funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
