The University of Bristol played host on 25 March to an international conference on university research and collaboration. The China-UK Higher Education Forum 2014, jointly arranged by the University of Bristol, the British Council and the UK Higher Education International Unit, brought together Chinese and UK university professionals to hear about current best practice.
A lecture organised by the University of Bristol’s Botanic Garden later this week [Thursday 29 September] will highlight a project to protect the rare plants of China’s Yunnan province.
A unique international film symposium attracting film makers and scholars from India, Turkey, Holland, the US and the UK sponsored by Bristol Docs, a collaboration between the Universities of Bristol and the West of England is taking place in Bristol on 23 and 24 February.
A major new fossil site in south-west China has filled in a sizeable gap in our understanding of how life on this planet recovered from the greatest mass extinction of all time, according to a paper co-authored by Professor Mike Benton, in the School of Earth Sciences, and published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The work is led by scientists from the Chengdu Geological Center in China.
Dr Maurizio Marinelli, Senior Lecturer in the Centre for East Asian Studies, and colleagues have been awarded a grant of £662,487 from the Economic and Social Research Council for a three-year research project entitled ‘Colonialism in comparative perspective: Tianjin under nine flags, 1860-1949’.
Aardman Animations’ much-loved Shaun the Sheep character has a new home in China, marking the 15th anniversary of Bristol’s sister city relationship with Guangzhou in southern China.
A shipping container on Bristol’s docks will be transformed into an art gallery this November, hosting an exhibition of images of modern day China inspired by the University of Bristol’s ‘Historical Photographs of China’ project.
The Department of History’s ‘Historical Photographs of China’ project is the focus of a documentary ‘Old Photographs Fever: The Search for China's Pictured Past’ to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 11am on Wednesday 11 July.
Details of a fabulous new fossil bird from the world-famous fossil deposits of Liaoning in China, are published this week in the journal Science in China. Details of its bone structure and feathers are exquisitely preserved.
The Bristol Interns in China programme (BIC) has welcomed the return of the first cohort of students.
