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Previous studies have suggested that women with high body dissatisfaction display an attentional bias towards low-weight bodies, which is thought to exacerbate feelings of body dissatisfaction. However, until now, these findings have been…

Penned by George Roberts (1804–1860), who ran a private school opposite Anning’s fossil shop in Lyme Regis, and preserved in the Special Collections of the University of Bristol Library, the work has been published by Dr Michael Taylor of…

The research, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, and funded by Wellcome, seeks to examine the causal effects of childhood maltreatment on mental health by accounting for other genetic and environmental risk factors, such as…

Dame Nicola joined the University's Faculty of Social Sciences and Law in October this year. She undertakes research in relation to higher education governance, with a specific focus on the teaching/research relationship and its impact on…

Scientists used CT scans of dinosaur skulls to track the evolution of early dinosaur herbivores - reconstructing jaw muscles and measuring the animals’ bite force to understand how dinosaur feeding evolved.Five skulls from the…

The app has been developed by The Cultural Assembly as part of the UKRI-funded Citizen Science project Decolonising Memory: Digital Bodies in Movement led by Dr Jessica Moody from the University of Bristol’s Department of History and…

Doing so essentially ‘locks-in’ nitrogen as it is no longer turned into as much nitrous oxide gas by microbes such as fungi and bacteria. Nitrous oxide is roughly 300 times more potent that CO2 as a greenhouse gas, and fertilised soils…

Ali Hani Al Muhanna wrote his first book – a semi-autobiographical novel called A Cruel Path to Clear Perception – when he was just 16.His new work, Chasing Home, Away From Home: The Struggles of Adulthood, is a non-fiction guide for…

The University of Bristol-led research, funded and conducted in collaboration with Pfizer Inc., as part of AvonCAP, is published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. AvonCAP records adults who are admitted to Bristol’s two hospital…

The automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are in publicly accessible places, available 24-hours a day and carry clear step-by-step instructions for people to use.Jason Parr, Director of Health and Safety at the University of Bristol,…