University of Bristol

Across Avon and Somerset, waiting lists for specialist children’s therapeutic support are currently around two and a half years, whilst prosecutions for rape and sexual assault hit an all-time low in the UK last year.Dr Gemma Halliwell, a…

The University of Bristol’s commitment to sustainability took a significant step forward today (Monday 16 May) with a £2.5 million grant to embed carbon reduction technologies and practices in its first research and innovation hub at…

Family members of people with severe mental health challenges need greater support to navigate the UK’s care system following changes announced in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, say the authors of a new study published in the British Journal…

The Marie Słodowska-Curie Doctoral Network called Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures will fund a cohort of researchers in six universities (Bristol, Alicante, Vienna, Zürich, Antwerp, and NUI Galway) to promote postgraduate…

The international research, led by the University of Bristol, looked at the 2020 Super Cyclone Amphan – the most costly cyclone to make landfall in South Asia – and projected its consequences in different scenarios of sea level rise due…

An international group of 100 scientists studied 178,076 siblings to estimate the effects of genetics and environment on health and social outcomes. Their findings are published today in Nature Genetics. They found that the genetic…

The international research, led by the University of Bristol, looked at the 2020 Super Cyclone Amphan – the most costly cyclone to make landfall in South Asia – and projected its consequences in different scenarios of sea level rise due…

New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, the Netherlands (4-7 May), has found that many parents attending commercial weight management programmes would be happy for their child, if overweight, to…

National obesity guidance was introduced in England at the end of 2006, with a 2014 update stating that adults with a BMI of ≥25 (≥23.0 in minority ethnic groups) are eligible for referral to a lifestyle weight management programme. These…

New research published today in eLife by scientists from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the University of Bristol challenges the current consensus that the radiation of squamates happened in the Cretaceous…