Poet and educator who ‘lived off the streets’ receives honorary degree
For most, getting a degree represents years of learning. For Lawrence Hoo, it represents a lifetime.
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Drones collect measurements from a volcanic plume at Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala
A team of volcanologists and engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge have collected measurements from directly within volcanic clouds, together with visual and thermal images of inaccessible volcano peaks.
One year on: South West researchers and businesses in the battle against COVID-19
Over the past year, up and down the UK, thousands of research and innovation projects have been publicly funded to tackle the pandemic. Researchers at the universities of Bristol, Bath and Exeter, and businesses in the South West are playing a key role in how the UK is combatting COVID-19. Their work forms part of a £550 million COVID-19 rapid investment programme by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) - the largest public funder of research and development in the UK.
Centre for Gender and Violence Research launches new journal
The Journal of Gender-Based Violence is the first international journal based in Europe to showcase the work of scholars across disciplinary and topic boundaries.
Bristol first to host series of workshops focusing on 6G research in the UK
The Minister for Digital Infrastructure has launched a series of events based on 6G research in the UK, the first hosted by the University of Bristol.
Bristol Old Vic: The Geraldine Menez Award 2017
A University of Bristol student studying Theatre and Performance Studies has been presented with an award by the Bristol Old Vic Theatre acknowledging outstanding engagement with the University’s Theatre Collection.
Double win for PhD student at major science meet
A PhD student has scored twice at a major international science conference, winning prizes for best talk and best poster.
Combining heroin and commonly prescribed non-opioid pain killers leads to a significant rise in overdose deaths
A multi-disciplinary study has shown that the recent substantial increase in prescriptions for two drugs, pregabalin and gabapentin, used widely for a range of neurological disorders is closely correlated with a rise in the number of overdose deaths in England and Wales. These drugs have become drugs of abuse, according to new University of Bristol findings published in Addiction, which highlight that they are especially dangerous when used with heroin or other opioids
Award for student fighting the loneliness ‘epidemic’ among Bristol’s elderly
A selfless student who organised for 150 Christmas cards to be sent to lonely Bristol pensioners has been honoured with a special award.
£2 million award will advance understanding of mechanisms of learning and memory
Neuroscientists at the University of Bristol have been awarded a prestigious £2 million Wellcome Trust Investigator Award for a five-year study to investigate the neuronal circuits that drive our recognition memory.