In the UK, 1.6 million children live in severe poverty, but what are the effects of this on the brain’s development? Professor Sebastian Lipina, an expert in the field of poverty and neuroscience, will discuss how the neurocognitive function of a child’s brain is influenced by socioeconomic disadvantage and how this impacts on their long-term achievement at a talk [14 Nov] hosted by the University of Bristol.
A number of new appointments have been made to the role of Faculty Research Director at the University.
How do you feel about using surveillance technologies to keep you healthy and living independently? University of Bristol academics are keen to hear your views on a new sensor system being developed by them to monitor people’s health in the home at a free public event next month [22 July].
Research at the University of Bristol will help the British Heart Foundation in its mission to cut premature deaths from cardiovascular disease by 25 per cent.
Professor Sarah Street from the Department of Film and Television has been awarded First Prize in the 2014 British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Prize for Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-55.
Six University of Bristol postgraduates have been awarded prizes for the exceptional quality of their doctoral theses.
Bees use their ability to 'see' polarized light when foraging for food, researchers based at the University of Bristol have discovered. This is the first time bees have been found to use this ability for something other than navigation.
The English grammar school system has widened the gap between rich and poor, according to a new study published today.
An endangered species of Madagascan lemur uses the alarm calls of birds and other lemurs to warn it of the presence of predators, a new study by researchers from the University of Bristol and Bristol Zoo with the University of Torino has found. This is the first time this phenomenon has been observed in a solitary and nocturnal lemur species.
The Bristol-based International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE) has been placed at the top of its field in the ISI Web of Science Journal Citation Reports, published by Thomson Reuters.
