Academic partnership NIHR announces £25 million funding for the School for Public Health Research
The next round of the school, which has been awarded £25 million from April 2022, will advance and extend the school’s current research themes of…
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Fun-filled Welcome Village provides one-stop shop for Uni life
Students can get glitzy at the glitter bar, watch graffiti artists and circus performers and even get jabbed at the pop-up vaccination centre (@BristolUni). This…
Bristol’s Engineering, Education and Medicine courses among best in the country, Sunday Times and Guardian find
The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022, released today, found Bristol to be the UK’s top institution for General Engineering (known at Bristol as Engineering…
Tireless PhD student walked 8 hours a day for primary school
Bongai was born during Mozambique’s bloody civil war. From her family’s temporary home a few miles over the border in Zimbabwe, they could hear the…
‘It’s never too late to follow your passion’: Imogen on Uni path 13 years after leaving school early
Imogen Griffin has praised the power of adult education to transform lives as she prepares to start a degree in social policy and sociology at…
SARS-CoV-2 transmission model suggests primary school infection could be greater this autumn than in 2020
The study, published on the preprint server medRxiv, is led by Dr Mark Woodhouse from Bristol’s Schools of Earth Sciences and Mathematics, working with colleagues…
Major funding boost for UK’s open research agenda
Further information The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is a national peer-led consortium that aims to ensure the UK retains its place as a centre for…
Bristol Vet School students practice emergency response skills with state-of-the-art patient simulator
Responding to emergency cases is a crucial part of the experience third-year vet students gain, during clinical rotations at Bristol Vet School’s (@Bristol_Vets) onsite Small Animal…
Bristol report calls for action to tackle the digital divide as research during COVID-19 lockdown exposes digital inequality
The team surveyed more than 5,000 residents of Knowle West about their experience of digital technologies during the first COVID-19 lockdown. They found negative impacts…
Bristol medic eyes gold after fulfilling sporting ambition to make Tokyo 2020 Paralympics
Michael Taylor will swim 750m, cycle 20km and tackle a 5km run at the Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay on Saturday (28 August). It’s…