A new research project looking at how modern Italian culture has developed around the world has been awarded £1.8million by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). From the insights it develops into transnational Italian cultures, the project will forge a new framework for the discipline of Modern Languages as a whole.
Global demand for broadband communications continues to increase substantially year on year. A major factor contributing to this demand is the growing number of fixed and mobile broadband users, data-hungry applications like video, and an ever-increasing number of network-connected everyday objects and machines. It is forecast that by 2020 the number of network-connected devices will reach 1,000 times the world’s population. A University of Bristol-led research project that aims to implement radically new network models has been awarded £6 million funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Spark, the University of Bristol’s bootcamp for young entrepreneurs, has scooped a top award for its work in supporting a new generation of business leaders.
Bristol students have won four out of five awards available to graduates of the Lloyds Scholars Programme.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has announced £2.9 million funding for state-of-the-art equipment for eight doctoral training initiatives at Bristol.
Professor Guy Nason in the School of Mathematics has been awarded a prestigious Established Career Fellowship by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Three research projects from the University of Bristol have been shortlisted in the final of the national Engage Competition run by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE).
Professors David Murphy, from Bristol Neuroscience, and Julian Paton, from of the School of Physiology and Pharmacology, have been awarded two of six research grants funded under a collaborative scheme by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
A new research centre to improve the lives of people with asthma is being launched today [13 May], bringing together experts from across the UK to find better treatments and make them available faster than ever before.
Rich Pancost, Professor of Biogeochemistry in the School of Chemistry and member of the Cabot Institute, has been awarded a Fellowship of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry and becomes a Geochemistry Fellow.
